Hi
We are implementing SEPA DD
As we are still using a "classical" collection payment medium, my first idea was to reuse this payment medium for SEPA Direct Debit.
We made something similar with SEPA Credit transfer and the benefit was to don't change anything on customer master data nor on the pending accounting documents.
For Direct Debit, I have checked T-code FI_APAR_SEPA_CONV for mass creation of mandates.
As I can see, while creating a mandate, SAP checks whether the company uses a SEPA payment medium.
As a result, this means that I cannot create a mandate until I have changed my present "collection" payment medium into "SEPA DD" payment medium.
Since I have 3000 mandates to be created and we usually run payments many times a week, I now realize that I can't reuse the present payment medium and that it would be more convenient to create a new one : It allows to prepare mandates for a few weeks while the present collection payement medium is still in use.
Am I right ?