Fiscal Day Management

Learn how to manage fiscal days for ZIMRA compliance.

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What is a Fiscal Day

Understanding the concept of fiscal days.

A fiscal day represents a business day for a specific device. Each device can have only one fiscal day per calendar day. All receipts created within that day are grouped under this fiscal day.

Fiscal Day Includes
  • • Date of operations
  • • Device identification
  • • All receipts for that day
  • • Running receipt counter
  • • Daily totals and summary
Fiscal Day Statuses
Open Accepting transactions
Closed Submitted to ZIMRA

Opening a Fiscal Day

Start your business day.

Prerequisites

Before opening a fiscal day, ensure your device is active with a valid certificate. New devices need a 4-hour wait after activation for certificate propagation.
1
Navigate to Fiscal Days

From your dashboard, go to Fiscalization → Fiscal Days.

2
Select Device

Choose the device you want to open a fiscal day for. Each device operates independently.

Open Fiscal Day
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Fiscal Days

Open Fiscal Day
March 15, 2024
HQ-DEVICE-001 • 23 receipts
Open
Select device and open fiscal day
3
Click Open Fiscal Day

Click the Open Fiscal Day button. The system creates a new fiscal day record with the current date.

4
Verification

The fiscal day appears in your list with status Open. The receipt counter starts at 0.

Fiscal Day Opened

You can now create and fiscalize receipts for this device.

Working Within a Fiscal Day

What you can do with an open fiscal day.

You Can

  • • Create receipts
  • • Fiscalize receipts
  • • View fiscal day details
  • • Monitor receipt counter
  • • Create credit/debit notes

You Cannot

  • • Change the device
  • • Change the date
  • • Delete receipts
  • • Modify fiscalized receipts

Closing a Fiscal Day

End your business day properly.

Before Closing

Ensure all receipts are fiscalized. You cannot close a fiscal day with pending receipts.
1
Verify All Receipts Processed

Check that there are no pending or offline receipts. All receipts must be fiscalized or marked as failed.

2
Select the Fiscal Day

Navigate to Fiscalization → Fiscal Days and select the open fiscal day you want to close.

3
Click Close Fiscal Day

Click the Close Fiscal Day button. The system calculates final counters and prepares the summary.

Close Fiscal Day
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Fiscal Day Summary

DateMarch 15, 2024
DeviceHQ-DEVICE-001
Total Receipts45
Total Sales$12,450.00
Total Tax$1,867.50
Close Fiscal Day
Review summary before closing
4
ZIMRA Submission

The fiscal day summary is sent to ZIMRA. The device signature is generated and FDMS acknowledgment is received.

5
Confirmation

Once closed, the fiscal day status changes to Closed. The FDMS fiscal day number is assigned.

Fiscal Day Closed

You can now open a new fiscal day for the next business day.