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Have SAP accept IBAN without maintained bank in BNKA

aotto
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Hi all,

Is there any possibility to have SAP accept IBANs without any maintained bank for it? I understand this used to be needed to get the SWIFT code to the payment, but more and more banks don't see this field as mandatory anymore.

Now, when entering an IBAN when posting e.g. to a one time vendor, it requires a bank set up in BNKA. The SWIFT field can be empty, but the bank has to have been created. My question if it is possible to not make it mandatory and have SAP accept the IBAN as is?

Reason is, that we need to post a lot of credits to a OTV for which we only have the IBAN number. When posting it results the bank doesn't exist, so first that one has to be created. This generates a lot of work, which in my opinio is unnecessary when the banks only need IBAN.

Thanks for your help,

Alexis

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Former Member
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Hi Alexis,

As per my understanding there is no standard way of fetching the IBAN without Bank Key Setup.

How do you make payment to OTV ? (Via F110-->XML, Check,ect)

Warmest Regards

Vineet Lodha

aotto
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Hi Vineet, thanks for your reply.

We don't need to fetch the IBAN (we already have it), but we want to be able to post through FB01 a document to a one time vendor and enter the IBAN. It only accepts the IBAN if the bank is setup for it.

Yes, we - once the document is posted - run the payments through F110 as a SEPA outgoing payment (XML, PAIN.001.001.03).

Would you know if we can enter the IBAN, without the bank being setup?

Thanks and regards,

Alexis

former_member229024
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Hi Alexis,

I think SAP requires bank master data for any IBAN. If bank data doesn't exist, then SAP generates from IBAN. you can have a dummy vendor master data and add IBAN in bank details IBAN pop up and click "Generate Bank details" -> click ok.  you can try LSMW to do this for large IBAN numbers. And later use IBAN for one time vendor payments.

Cheers,

aotto
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Hello Ravish,

Thanks for thinking with me. The bank details can only be generated from the IBAN if in BNKA (through FI01) the bank (bankkey, bankname, bankcity...). That last step is what I would like SAP not to check. Is that possible? Just to accept the IBAN in the posting in FB01 without generating the bankdetails (and thus no need for the bank to be created?).

Thanks again,

Alexis

former_member229024
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Hi Alexis,

I think SAP needs the corresponding bank master data for IBAN to be present before using it.

Cheers,

aotto
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That was what I was afraid of. Ok, thanks for clearing this.

Regards,

Alexis

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