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   <Header>
      <Title>To use advance payment requests</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e2604957">
         <Level1>Advance payment requests</Level1>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e2604960">
         <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 <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#000052" role="glossary">holdback</Link>. 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">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, ERP Enterprise creates a revenue record.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>When the advance line
		  is printed using the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ci/sli/cisli2200m000" role="session">Compose/Print/Post Invoices (cisli2200m000)</GUIRef> session, and posted to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf" role="package">Financials</GUIRef> using the same
		  session, the invoice number is filled in the advance record and in the revenue
		  record.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Next, a revenue record
		  is transferred from <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp/pin" role="module">Project Invoicing</GUIRef> to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ci/sli" role="module">Invoicing</GUIRef>. ERP Enterprise then creates a record in the Revenue table also.</ListItem>
         <ListItem> 
            <List>
               <ListIntro>When this record is printed using the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ci/sli/cisli2200m000" role="session">Compose/Print/Post Invoices (cisli2200m000)</GUIRef> session, and posted to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf" role="package">Financials</GUIRef> using the same
				session:</ListIntro>
               <ListItem>The invoice number
				is filled in the revenue record belonging to this record.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>ERP Enterprise checks if an advance record is present. You can settle this advance line with a
				normal line. If an advance line is found, ERP Enterprise adds a record to the
				Revenue table to counterpost the advance.</ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
      </List>
   </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>
</ManualTopic>