Oracle API Availability - Oracle Receivables (AR)

Posted on June 23rd, 2007 by Sanjit Anand | Print This Post | Email This Post

This is in continuation to API’s availability,Here are the API’s availability in AR.

Invoices

• Manual Entry and Updating: Manual entry or update of invoices requires the user to have access to the Oracle Application’s Accounts Receivable module and specifically the Enter Invoices form. You can enter and update invoices for valid customers. AR uses AutoAccounting to create the revenue accounting combination based on the invoice line information.
• AutoInvoice Interface: AutoInvoice interface provides a mechanism for transferring large volumes of invoices, credit memos, debit memos, and on-account credits from third-party and legacy systems into Receivables. Information is loaded into the RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL (which stores information about each interface line imported) and RA_INTERFACE_SALESCREDITS_ALL (containing the sales credit information) tables then imported into the Oracle Applications by the AutoInvoice Import process.You can also refer my old post for autoinvoice details.

Receipts

• Manual Entry and Updating: Manual entry or update of receipts requires the user to have access to the Oracle Application’s Accounts Receivable module and specifically the Enter Receipts form. You can enter and update receipts for open and future accounting periods.
• AutoLockbox Interface: AutoLockbox interface provides a mechanism for transferring large volumes of payments from bank files or third party systems into Receivables. Information is loaded into the AR_PAYMENTS_INTERFACE_ALL table then imported into the Oracle Applications by the AutoLockbox Import process.
  The AR_PAYMENTS_INTERFACE_ALL table stores imported lockbox information that has not been validated. AutoLockbox creates one row in this table for each record in a transmission. When the validation step of AutoLockbox is run, Oracle Receivables transfers the information from the AR_PAYMENTS_INTERFACE_ALL tables to the AR_INTERIM_CASH_RECEIPTS_ALL and AR_INTERIM_CASH_RCPT_LINES_ALL tables.

Customers

• Manual Entry and Updating: Manual entry or update of customers requires the user to have access to the Oracle Application’s Accounts Receivable module and specifically the Enter Customers form. You can enter and update customers, multiple customer addresses (sites), and multiple contact(s) for each address.
• Customer Interface: The customer interface provides a mechanism for transferring large volumes of customers from third party and legacy systems into Receivables. Information is loaded into the RA_CUSTOMER_INTERFACE, RA_CONTACT_PHONES_INTERFACE, RA_CUSTOMER_PROFILES_INTERFACE, RA_CUSTOMER_BANKS_INTERFACE, and RA_CUST_PAY_METHOD_INTERFACE tables then imported into the Oracle Applications by the Customer Import process.
• TCA API’s: The customer information can also be loaded into application by TCA API’s.

Sales Tax Rates

• Manual Entry and Updating: Manual entry or update of sales tax data requires the user to have access to the Oracle Application’s Accounts Receivable module and specifically the Tax Locations and Rates form. You can enter and update location and rate information through this form.
• Sales Tax Rate Interface: The Sales Tax Rate Interface lets you load sales tax records into your Oracle Receivables application from your sales tax feeder system. Information is loaded into the AR_TAX_INTERFACE table then imported into the Oracle Applications by the Sales Tax Rate Interface process.
  The AR_TAX_INTERFACE table is used to import location, postal code and sales tax rate information into Oracle Receivables. Rows are inserted in this table and then the Sales Tax Interface Program is run to create records in AR_LOCATION_VALUES and AR_LOCATION_RATES. Each row can define a new location and assign to it multiple postal code and effectively date ranges, and each range may have an optional sales tax rate.

Tax Vendor Extension

Oracle provides a Tax Vendor Extension to integrate external tax calculation programs with the Oracle Application’s Accounts Receivable module. This extension allows you to provide for complex tax calculation requirements while retaining the full power of Receivables to create and store other tax data. The tax extension is called whenever a tax rate is calculated by the Receivables Tax Engine.