# Account Payment Module

The account_payment module allows to generate grouped payments for receivable or payable Account Move Lines.

## Payment

A Payment defines the attempt to pay an amount to a party or to receive an amount from a party. It is mainly defined by:

- Journal.

- Kind: - Payable - Receivable

- Party.

- Line.

- Amount.

- Date.

- Description.

A payment can be created from an payable or receivable Account Move Line using the Pay Lines action. The amount is computed from the debit/credit deducing existing payments for this line.

The payment can be in one of this states:

- Draft

  The payment is waiting for approval.

- Approved

  The payment has been approved and is waiting to be processed by the wizard in a Group.

- Processing

  The payment has been processed in a Group.

- Succeeded

  The payment was successfully processed.

- Failed

  The payment was not successfully processed.

## Group

A group links a set of payment of the same kind processed together inside the same journal.

## Journal

A journal defines the configuration of the processing of payments.