How To Fix TU866 - No payment plans exist; Contract account has budget billing procedure &1

TU866 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: TU - Billing/Scheduling/Budget Billing

• Message number: 866

• Message text: No payment plans exist; Contract account has budget billing procedure &1

What causes this issue?

You attempted to change a budget billing plan from category &1. However,
you can only change budget billing plans that belong to category 3 using
this function.

System Response

The transaction is terminated.

How to fix this error?

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

Procedure for System Administrators

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

TU866 - Details

• The SAP error message TU866 indicates that there are no payment plans available for a contract account that is set up with a budget billing procedure. This error typically arises in the context of billing and invoicing processes within SAP, particularly when dealing with contract accounts in the SAP Convergent Charging or SAP IS-U (Industry Solution for Utilities) modules.
  
  Cause:
  
  
  No Payment Plans Defined: The primary cause of this error is that there are no payment plans defined for the specified contract account. This can happen if the account has not been set up correctly or if the payment plans have not been created or activated.
  
  
  Budget Billing Procedure: The contract account is configured with a budget billing procedure, which requires specific payment plans to be in place. If these plans are missing, the system cannot process the billing as expected.
  
  
  
  Configuration Issues: There may be issues with the configuration of the budget billing