Fiscal Day Management
Learn how to manage fiscal days for ZIMRA compliance.
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.
- • Date of operations
- • Device identification
- • All receipts for that day
- • Running receipt counter
- • Daily totals and summary
Opening a Fiscal Day
Start your business day.
Prerequisites
Navigate to Fiscal Days
From your dashboard, go to Fiscalization → Fiscal Days.
Select Device
Choose the device you want to open a fiscal day for. Each device operates independently.
Fiscal Days
Click Open Fiscal Day
Click the Open Fiscal Day button. The system creates a new fiscal day record with the current date.
Verification
The fiscal day appears in your list with status Open. The receipt counter starts at 0.
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
Verify All Receipts Processed
Check that there are no pending or offline receipts. All receipts must be fiscalized or marked as failed.
Select the Fiscal Day
Navigate to Fiscalization → Fiscal Days and select the open fiscal day you want to close.
Click Close Fiscal Day
Click the Close Fiscal Day button. The system calculates final counters and prepares the summary.
Fiscal Day Summary
ZIMRA Submission
The fiscal day summary is sent to ZIMRA. The device signature is generated and FDMS acknowledgment is received.
Confirmation
Once closed, the fiscal day status changes to Closed. The FDMS fiscal day number is assigned.
Fiscal Day Closed