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Practice SAP F-53 — Post an Outgoing Payment

Pay a single supplier invoice by hand and clear it in one step. Work through it below in a simulated F-53 screen: pick the wrong value and you get the error a real SAP system would give you.

F-53

Post an Outgoing Payment

· Financial Accounting (FI)

Pay a single supplier invoice by hand and clear it in one step.

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Guided

Step 1: Enter F-53 in the command field.

Post Outgoing Payments: Header Data

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Document Date *

Company Code *

Bank Account *

Amount *

Account (Vendor) *

Document	Doc. Date	Amount EUR	Assigned
1900000188	02.07.2026	480,00

Client 100 | Company Code 1000 | S/4HANA

What you will do in F-53

01Enter F-53 in the command field.
02Enter today's document date.
03Enter company code 1000.
04Enter the bank G/L account 113100 — the money leaves here.
05Enter vendor 100214 (Office Supplies Co).
06The open invoice is 480,00 EUR. Enter the payment amount.
07Click Process Open Items, then activate the invoice so the assigned amount matches.
08Not assigned is 0,00 — post the payment.

SAP errors this simulation teaches

Pick the wrong option and SAP answers the way it would on a real system. Learning to read these is most of the job.

The difference is too large for automatic clearing. Not assigned 80,00
Posting is only possible with a zero balance; Not assigned 480,00

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