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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">To use advance payment requests</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Holdback</Level1>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<GeneralSection><Paragraph>Advance payment requests are amounts paid by the business partner before the project starts. You can use these amounts to buy, for example, project materials.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>Advance payments can be made for all of the invoice types except if you already use holdback. If several project customers are involved, the advance must be linked to one of them. You can link an advance to an element or activity. If the invoice type of a project is Installments, you can also link the advance to an installment. You can use this installment to settle the advance. If the advance is not linked to an installment, settle the advance in the next invoice.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>To maintain an advance, you must select a revenue code from the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp/pdm/tppdm0515m000" role="session">Standard Revenues (tppdm0515m000)</GUIRef> session. After transferring advance payments to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ci/sli" role="module">Sales Invoicing</GUIRef>, the advance invoice line is posted to the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp/ppc/tpppc3501m000" role="session">Revenues (tpppc3501m000)</GUIRef> session with the revenue code that you selected in the <Link href="/baanerp/tp/pin/tppin4510m000" role="session">Advance Payment Requests (tppin4510m000)</Link> session.</Paragraph>
		<List><ListItem>When you post an Advance Payment Request record, SSA ERP creates a revenue record.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>When the Advance line is printed and posted to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ci/sli" role="module">Sales Invoicing</GUIRef> the invoice number is filled in the advance record and in the revenue record.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Then a revenue record is transferred from <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp/pin" role="module">Project Invoicing</GUIRef> to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ci/sli" role="module">Sales Invoicing</GUIRef>. At that moment a record is also made in the Revenue table.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>When this record is printed and posted to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ci/sli" role="module">Sales Invoicing</GUIRef>:</ListItem>
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		<List><ListItem>The invoice number is filled in the revenue record belonging to this record.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>SSA ERP checks if an advance record is present. You can settle this advance line with a normal line. If an advance line is found, SSA ERP inserts a record in the Revenue table to counterpost the advance.</ListItem>
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	</GeneralSection>
	<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000041" role="manual">To use invoicing</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000013" role="manual">To use revenue codes</Link>
		</RelTopic>
	</RelatedTopics>
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