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title: "Before You Process: What Happens in SAP"
description: "Whose user posts the change, what SAP records, what costs quota, which records are skipped, and the rules MDM keeps whatever happens."
source: "https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/what-processing-does-in-sap"
edition: "public-cloud"
editionLabel: "S/4HANA Public Cloud"
version: "2026.2"
latest: true
language: "en"
section: "Working with Master Data > Processing Records into SAP"
updated: "2026-11-05"
---

# Before You Process: What Happens in SAP

> Whose user posts the change, what SAP records, what costs quota, which records are skipped, and the rules MDM keeps whatever happens.

> **Draft brief for authors.** Replace with the final text; keep the concept-page structure.

**Page type:** Concept · **Audience:** Processor

**Contains:** whose user posts (named user or integration user; the confirmation says which); SAP's change documents; every record sent costs one unit of quota, accepted or rejected; records SAP already holds as staged are skipped (no quota); a change to a record SAP does not know is skipped; an operation SAP already shows as done is skipped; the description language and units follow your language; creates, deletes and operations are never sent twice.

**Related information:** `concept-identity`, `concept-quota`, `concept-safety-rules`, `processing-now`.

**Source in the product repository:** customer guide §5, decisions D42, D97 (SkipUnchanged), D162.