For a quick look at what fields are within each group, you can place your cursor on one of the groups and click on the Subgroup list button at the top. Maintain Field Status Groups for SAP Posting KeysĮach group under the Select Group listing contains fields that can be used within a line item financial posting. Finally, the Payment transaction checkbox will be chosen if the key will be used for outgoing payments, such as within AP vendor payments.Īfter reviewing the available SAP posting key settings in the Detail Configuration screen, click on the Maintain Field Status button in the upper left to come to the Maintain Field Status Group: Overview screen.

If so, you will also specify a special G/L indicator when making the line item posting during document creation. The special G/L check box indicates if you will be posting special G/L entries using the key. The Sales Related field is used typically with customer related keys and indicates it will be used in sales calculations by the system. The reversal posting key is typically entered if the posting key is for G/L accounts and will be automatically used to post an offset entry to the line item when processing reversals.

There are three checkboxes and an entry field for the reversal posting key. The last box is for other attributes you can assign to the posting key. Keep in mind that when using a vendor, customer, asset, or material, the applicable sub ledger reconciliation account will be posted to. If this is Customer, you’ll put in a customer master, if it is Vendor, you will enter a vendor master, and so forth. This will dictate what type of master record you will be required to enter on the line item when using the post key. Again, this can only be one or another, so this is a radio button selection. Your choices here are Customer, Vendor, G/L account, Assets, or Material. The second box is for choosing the account type the posting key will use. This field will drive the BSEG-SHKZG field to be H for credit and S for debit. A key can be one or the other, but not both, so this is a radio button selection. The first box is for debit or credit indicator of the posting key. The generally accepted best practice when creating custom keys is to find a key that most closely resembles what you will need, copy it to a new value, and modify it as required.

SAP delivers standard posting keys that will meet most organizations’ needs, however if required, it is possible to create custom keys. This is a two-digits alphanumeric value that controls the account type (asset, customer, vendor, material, or general ledger account), whether the line item is a debit or a credit posting, and the layout of the line item on entry screens. SAP Posting keys are required for each line item within a FI document posting (table BSEG, field BSCHL). This tutorial will take a look at posting keys, examine SAP posting key configuration, and review a sample posting to point out how they are used within the system. Each line item requires an SAP posting key which controls various aspects of how the particular line item will post. Within SAP Financial Accounting, general ledger accounts are posted to using SAP Posting Keys.

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