Fiscal Operations

Learn about ZIMRA fiscal compliance operations in VasBox.

Available to:
Business Owner Manager Cashier

Understanding Fiscal Operations

What fiscal compliance means for your business.

Fiscal operations in VasBox ensure your business complies with ZIMRA (Zimbabwe Revenue Authority) requirements. Every sale must be recorded and submitted electronically through the Fiscal Device Management System (FDMS).

Why Fiscalization Matters
  • • Legal requirement for businesses
  • • Creates audit trail
  • • Enables tax compliance
  • • Provides customer protection
What VasBox Handles
  • • Fiscal device management
  • • Receipt creation and signing
  • • ZIMRA submission
  • • Offline queue management

Legal Requirement

All business transactions must be fiscalized. Failure to fiscalize sales is a violation of ZIMRA regulations.

Key Concepts

Important terms to understand.

Fiscal Day

A business day for recording transactions. Each device has one fiscal day per calendar day. Must be opened before creating receipts and closed at end of day.

Receipt

The fiscalized record of a sale. Contains line items, taxes, payments, and once fiscalized, the ZIMRA verification data.

Fiscalization

The process of submitting a receipt to ZIMRA's FDMS. The receipt is signed by your device and receives a verification code from ZIMRA.

Device Signature

A cryptographic signature generated by your fiscal device that proves the authenticity of each receipt.

Daily Operations Workflow

A typical day of fiscal operations.

Step 1

Open Fiscal Day

Start your business day

Step 2

Create Receipts

Record sales transactions

Step 3

Fiscalize

Submit to ZIMRA

Step 4

Close Fiscal Day

End of day summary

Each business day follows this cycle. Open your fiscal day in the morning, create and fiscalize receipts throughout the day, and close the fiscal day when done.

End of Day

Always close your fiscal day before ending operations. This sends a summary to ZIMRA and prepares the device for the next day.