Distributing Debit Adjustments Among Bills

When a payment includes multiple bills and debit adjustments, the system distributes debit adjustments across bills so the resulting payment request fits BILL constraints. Bills that are fully offset—with a net applied amount of 0—are excluded from the request. Additionally, zero-amount payments are not sent to BILL and receive the Balanced status instead of Pending Processing.

Example

Suppose that on the Process Payments / Print Checks (AP505000) form, you schedule a payment that has these documents applied:

Bill 1 in the amount of $100
Bill 2 in the amount of $90
A debit adjustment in the amount of $110

The system first applies the $110 debit adjustment to bill 1, up to the full amount of $100. The remaining balance of the debit adjustment ($10) is then applied to bill 2.

As a result, bill 1 is fully offset (with a net applied amount of $0) and excluded from the BILL payment request. Bill 2 is partially offset (with a net applied amount of $80) and is sent in an API request to BILL.