RRT to Journal Integration Overview

The RRT to Journal Integration is an integration between Revenue Management and FinancialForce Accounting. It allows you to create Accounting journals from committed revenue recognition transactions.

Note:

Journal lines are created from revenue recognition transaction lines, not from revenue transaction summaries.

To set up the integration you must enable Feature Console features for FinancialForce Accounting and Revenue Management. For more information, see Setting up the RRT to Journal Integration.

After completing the setup, you can create journals from the revenue recognition transaction list view. You can only create journals for revenue recognition transactions with the status "Committed". The journals are created with the status "In Progress".

When journals are created from revenue recognition transactions, information is passed between Revenue Management and FinancialForce Accounting via Foundations. For information about which details are passed between these applications, view the publications and subscriptions for the Journal.Create message type on the Message Types tab of the Foundations Administration application. If you have custom fields on your revenue recognition transaction lines and you want to map their values to journal lines, you can add them to the publications and subscriptions for the Journal.Create message type.

Each revenue recognition transaction and its resulting journal are linked at header and line level by lookup fields. The revenue recognition transaction has a lookup to the journal that has been created, and each revenue recognition transaction item has a lookup to its corresponding journal line item. Similarly, the journal and journal line items have lookups to their corresponding revenue recognition transaction and transaction lines. The Journal Status and Journal Date are also recorded on the revenue recognition transaction.

Warning:

In the FFA subscription to the Journal.Create message type, the mappings for Journal Currency and Period are resolved in relation to Company. Therefore it is imperative that the settings records (in Revenue Management) for your source objects have Grouped By mapped to a field that identifies a source record's company. The process to create journals will fail if the correct company cannot be identified on revenue recognition transactions using the Grouped By field.