How To Fix 9J066 - There is no external sold-to party for recipient &

9J066 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: 9J -

• Message number: 066

• Message text: There is no external sold-to party for recipient &

What causes this issue?

An external sold-to party is required (due to the settings for the
"Debtor reference" indicator). This has not yet been entered in the
master data of the internal recipient.

System Response

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

How to fix this error?

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message 9J066 - There is no external sold-to party for recipient & ?

  The SAP error message 9J066 indicates that there is no external sold-to party for the specified recipient in the system. This error typically arises in scenarios involving sales orders, deliveries, or billing documents where the system expects a valid external sold-to party (customer) to be associated with the transaction.
  
  Cause:
  
  Missing Customer Master Data: The sold-to party (customer) may not be defined in the system or may not have been properly set up as an external customer.
  Incorrect Partner Function: The partner function for the sold-to party may not be correctly assigned in the document.
  Data Inconsistency: There may be inconsistencies in the data between the sales order and the customer master data.
  
  Configuration Issues: There could be configuration issues in the partner determination procedure that prevent the system from identifying the sold-to party.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Check Customer Master Data:
  
  Go to the customer master data (transaction code XD03 for general data or VD03 for sales area data) and