Account Payment Module

The account_payment module allows to generate grouped payments for receivable or payable Account Move Lines.

Payment

A Payment defines the attempt to pay an amount to a party or to receive an amount from a party. It is mainly defined by:

• Journal.

• Kind: - Payable - Receivable

• Party.

• Line.

• Amount.

• Date.

• Description.

A payment can be created from an payable or receivable Account Move Line using the Pay Lines action. The amount is computed from the debit/credit deducing existing payments for this line.

The payment can be in one of this states:

• Draft

  The payment is waiting for approval.

• Approved

  The payment has been approved and is waiting to be processed by the wizard in a Group.

• Processing

  The payment has been processed in a Group.

• Succeeded

  The payment was successfully processed.

• Failed

  The payment was not successfully processed.

Group

A group links a set of payment of the same kind processed together inside the same journal.

Journal

A journal defines the configuration of the processing of payments.