How To Fix FI207 - Payment with more than 3 subledger acct. lines. Use payment distribution

FI207 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: FI - TR-FM Funds Management

• Message number: 207

• Message text: Payment with more than 3 subledger acct. lines. Use payment distribution

What causes this issue?

You are posting a payment with open items for more than 3 customer or
vendor line items.

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?

You should use the payment distribution function (transaction FMPAYD)
for payments that are distributed to more than 3 customer or vendor
line items. Posting the document entered may lead to performance
problems during payment selection (program RFFMS200). It is also not
possible to ensure that errors in the payment selection can be traced.
Therefore you should use the payment distribution function.

Procedure for System Administrators

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FI207 - Details

• The SAP error message FI207 ("Payment with more than 3 subledger account lines. Use payment distribution") typically occurs when you are trying to process a payment that involves more than three subledger account lines. This is a restriction in SAP to ensure that payments are properly distributed and accounted for.
  
  Cause:
  The error arises when:
  
  A payment document is created that includes more than three line items for subledger accounts (like customer or vendor accounts).
  The system is configured to limit the number of subledger account lines in a single payment document to three.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve this error, you can use the Payment Distribution functionality in SAP. Here’s how you can do it:
  
  
  Use Payment Distribution:
  
  Instead of trying to process the payment directly, you can use the "Payment Distribution" feature to split the payment into multiple documents, each containing up to three subledger account lines.
  This can typically be done in the transaction code F110 (Automatic Payment