FAQ in Billing Cancellation

You'll be able to easily find out the answer/solution by yourself for the most frequently asked questions in SD Billing Cancellation area on this page.

For an easier search, you can use Ctrl + F to find a specific error message, for example. 

If you have issues when releasing a billing document to accounting, access the FAQ in Accounting document creation from SD (SD-FI Interface).

If you have issues when creating a billing document, access the FAQ in SD-BIL-IV - Processing of billing documents. 

 

Cancellation
Questions you may have	SAP Notes/KBAs/Wikis that you should check
When cancelling a billing document, I receive error message VF208 "Automatic clearing of billing document &1 and canc. doc. &2 not poss." or VF216. How to proceed? Why the cancellation did not clear automatically?	1259505 - FAQ: New cancellation procedure in SD
What is the difference between old cancellation and new cancellation procedure? Which cancellation procedure does the system perform?
What is the FI document type, generated by the cancellation?
How to solve error message F5151 in cancellation?
Where do I find further information about billing cancellation? How do I discover the cause of missing new cancellation in debug?	Troubleshooting guide: SD Billing Cancellation
Can I perform an item cancellation?	400000 - FAQ: Transaction VF11: Cancellation of SD billing documents
Can I run VF11 in background? How do I cancel relatively large billing documents?
In the cancellation billing document, the 'Cancelled billing document number' field (VBRK-SFAKN) is not filled.	400000 - FAQ: Transaction VF11: Cancellation of SD billing documents 394318 - Cancellation billing documents are not completed
The 'Billing document is cancelled' flag (VBRK-FKSTO) is not set in the cancelled billing document.
I cannot release a cancellation billing document to accounting, and I want to cancel the cancellation. Is there any procedure to cancel the cancellation? How to solve error message VF108 "Cancellation document * cannot be cancelled"?	388489 - Cancelation of a cancelation document 1721004 - Error VF128 Billing document is already cancelled  1780905 - Error VF108 when cancelling a cancellation invoice 1863394 - Billing type to be used when canceling a cancelation invoice
How to solve error message F5A005 "Reversal of document &v1 &v2 &v3 not possible in FI" when trying to release the cancelation invoice to accounting?	1938325 - Error F5A005 when releasing cancelation billing document to accounting Wiki page: Error message F5A005 during release of a cancelation invoice to accounting
How to prevent the cancellation of a billing document that has already been cleared in accounting?	1495733 - Cleared billing documents can be cancelled 1870023 - Cleared billing documents can be canceled (mod)
How to prevent the cancellation of a billing document in periods that are already closed?	Wiki page: Invoice Cancellation in closed posting period 180756 - Billing during a closed posting period 145468 - Missing check for closed posting period. You should follow the same steps for transaction VF11.
What should I bear in mind regarding Italian legal requirement?	1498348 - SD billing cancellation and Italian legal requirement
How to solve ABAP runtime error "SYSTEM_IMODE_TOO_LARGE" during the cancellation of a billing document?	639138 - VF11: Cancellation of billing documents with many line items
How to use user-defined data transport routines in the cancelation document?	43318 - Provision of data in cancellation document using requirements