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2886206 - Error in Customer Invoice: Invoice date before date XX.XX.XXXX of the referenced invoice not allowed

Symptom

You are not able to release an invoice due to the following error message: Invoice date before date XX.XX.XXXX of the referenced invoice not allowed (XX.XX.XXXX represent the respective Date)

Or

You are canceling an invoice and the following error message is displayed in the cancellation invoice: Posting date before posting date XX.XX.XXXX of referenced down payment 00000000000000000000000000000000XYZ

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Customer Invoicing work center.
  2. Select the Invoice Documents view. 
  3. Open Customer Invoice ABC (ABC represent the invoice ID).
  4. Following error occurs: Invoice date before date XX.XX.XXXX of the referenced invoice not allowed.

Or

  1. Go to the Customer Invoicing work center.
  2. Select the Invoice Documents view. 
  3. Select Customer Invoice ABC.
  4. Click on the Cancel button. 
  5. The following error is displayed in the Cancellation Invoice EFG: Posting date before posting date XX.XX.XXXX of referenced down payment 00000000000000000000000000000000XYZ

Cause

The Customer Invoice ABC has the Invoice Date YY.YY.YYYY (which is a date before the date XX.XX.XXXX). Down Payment XYZ was assigned to Customer Invoice ABC and since the Invoice Date of the Down Payment is XX.XX.XXXX which is a later date than the Invoice Date of Customer Invoice ABC the error occurs. This is also the reason why the error occurs for Cancellation Invoice EFG.

The Invoice Date of a Down Payment cannot be later than the Invoice Date of the Customer Invoice in which the Down Payment is assigned.

Resolution

Ensure that the Invoice Date of the Invoice has a later date than the Invoice Date of the Down Payment

See Also

2809206 - How To Work With Down Payments in Sales

Keywords

Down Payment; Release; Invoice; Error; , KBA , AP-CI-CI , Customer Invoice , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 1911