Account Payment Module
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The account_payment module allows to generate grouped payments for receivable
or payable Account Move Lines.
Payment
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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.
Direct debit payments can be created from the wizard ``Create Direct Debit``
for all the parties that are configured with at least one *Direct Debits*
record.
The payment can be in one of this states:
* Draft
The payment is in preparation.
* Submitted
The payment has been submitted and is waiting approval or to be processed.
* 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
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A group links a set of payment of the same kind processed together inside the
same journal.
Journal
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A journal defines the configuration of the processing of payments.
Cédric Krier
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