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Messaging between Billing Central and Accounting

Several ERP publications and subscriptions are provided as features to enable FinancialForce Accounting transactions to be created when you complete a billing document:

Feature	Description
FinancialForce Accounting Publications and Subscriptions	Creates the FinancialForce Accounting publications required to complete billing documents.
BC Publications and Subscriptions	Creates the FinancialForce Billing Central publications required to complete billing documents.
ERP Publications and Subscriptions	Creates the ERP publications and subscriptions required to complete billing documents.

For information about enabling features in Feature Console, see Enabling and Disabling Features.

When you click Complete or Convert to Credit Note on a billing document, several messages are passed between ERP, Billing Central, and Accounting.

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Completion Process Message

ERP publishes this message when you click the Complete button on a draft billing document. Information published includes:

Record ID
Identifier of the Billing Document Completion Status record
Process Status
Billing Document record

Completion Response Message

Billing Central subscribes to the completion process message and validates the billing document associated with a completion process message. Billing Central publishes a completion response message that indicates whether the billing document can be posted to Accounting transactions. Information published includes:

Document Number
Billing Document record
Record ID
Identifier of the Billing Document Completion Status record
Process Status
Contract Number
Company Name

ERP subscribes to the completion response message and determines whether to mark the billing document complete and send a billing document complete message. These fields are populated in the subscription:

Completion Status
Document Status

Note:

In future, other FinancialForce products such as Accounting are likely to be able to subscribe to the completion process message, validate the billing document and publish a completion response message.

Billing Document Complete Message

When ERP publishes the Billing Document Complete message, Accounting and Billing Central subscribe to that message to post accounting transactions and update related contract line items. This information is included in the publication:

Document Number
Billing Document record
Record ID
Identifier of the Billing Document Completion Status record
Process Status
Analysis Item 1 - Analysis Item 4, each with their Record ID and Reporting Code
Line Items with their Names and Analysis Item 1 - Analysis Item 4

These fields are populated by the related subscription:

Object	Field
Billing Document	Accounting Transaction
	Accounting Company
	Match Type
	Outstanding Value
	Period
	Posting Error
	Posting Status
	Year
Billing Document Line Item	Match Type
Billing Document Line Item	Outstanding Value

Related Concepts

Setting up Billing Document Integration

Scheduling Message Delivery

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