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.