Financial EDI Interface (FI-EDI)

The FI-EDI interface is intended to connect a bank communications system to the SAP R/3 system. Companies
use these Bank Communication Systems to send their payment transaction data to their house banks and to
receive account statements etc. from banks to close the financial loop.

Financial EDI
Customer
Customer Payment
Payment order
order Bank
Bank
Payer
Payer
Debit
Debit advice
advice

El.
El. bank
bank statement
statement

Paym.
Paym. Advice
Advice Bank
Bank transfer
transfer
FI-EDI
Invoice
Invoice
Certification

Vendor
Vendor Credit
Credit Advice
Advice Bank
Bank
Beneficiary
Beneficiary

Direct
Direct Debit
Debit

El.
El. bank
bank statement
statement

 SAP AG

From the SAP side, the FI-EDI interface is based on IDoc technology, which is independent of EDI standards.
The following data can be transferred using the FI-EDI interface:
• R/3-Outbound messages:
Payment orders, direct debits
IDocs are transferred from the R/3 System to the Bank Communication System.
• R/3-Inbound messages:
Debit advices, credit advices, bank statements, lockbox data
IDocs are transferred from the Bank Communication System to the R/3 System.
• Status report:
The Bank Communication System sends a status report to the R/3 System on the progress of the processing
of the outbound IDocs.

Bank Communication Systems perform the following tasks related to EDI processing:
• Conversion of data: IDoc ↔ EDI message
• Message and Interchange Handling
• Communication
• Administration of partner profiles
• Monitoring of processing

Certification of an Bank Communication System involves technical testing of the interface between the R/3
System and the Bank Communication System. The transfer of outbound IDocs, inbound IDocs and status reports
is tested. Also, the inbound IDocs are tested whether their content corresponds to the outbound IDocs.
The test is carried out by using the following IDocs:

IDoc type PEXR2001: Message type

• Outbound Direct Debit DIRDEB
• Outbound Extended Payment Order PAYEXT
• Inbound Debit Advice DEBADV
• Inbound Credit Advice CREEXT

IDoc type FINSTA01: Message type

• Inbound Account Statement FINSTA