What is Document Type?

What is Document Type?

SAP comes delivered with a number of Document Types, which are used for various postings.  Document type helps to differentiate an accounting transaction and makes easy to identify the transaction document, and is used to control the entire transaction determining account types a particular document type can post to.  For example, the type AB allows you to post to all the accounts, whereas type DZ allows you to post only the customer payments.  Every document type is assigned to a number range.

The common document types include:-

AA	Asset Posting	KG	Vendor Credit Memo
AB	Accounting Document	KN	Net Vendors
AF	Depreciation Postings	KR	Vendor Invoice
DG	Customer Credit Memo	KZ	Vendor Payment
DR	Customer Invoice	SA	GL Account Document
DZ	Customer Payment	X2	Sample Document
X1	Recurring Document Entry	KA	Vendor Document
WA	Goods Issue	DA	Customer Document
WE	Goods Receipt	ZP	Payment Posting
WI	Inventory Document	ZR	Bank Reconciliation
WL	Goods Issue/Delivery	ZS	Payment by Cheque
WN	Net Goods Receipt	ZV	Payment Clearing

Transaction Code:  Create [OBA7]