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Purchasing, bank & payments

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Purchasing, bank & payments

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Invoice an order by line item

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Each line retains its account and VAT rate. Explicit line amounts must match the invoice total.

Step by step

  1. Open the order and transfer it to a supplier invoice. Check line amounts, accounts and VAT rates before posting.

Save a complete goods receipt

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Delivered quantities, order status and stock receipts are saved together. An inventory lock rolls back the entire receipt.

Step by step

  1. Open the order, enter the quantities actually delivered and confirm receipt.

Reconcile invoice and subsidiary ledger together

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A sales invoice and its ledger item form one suggestion and are settled together, including previously displayed ledger suggestions.

Step by step

  1. Import the camt file in bank reconciliation. Review and confirm the suggestion for the invoice and open item.

Bank rejection of individual payment items

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Selected unchanged prepared items can be released after a documented bank rejection. Successful payments remain intact; released items require new approval.

Step by step

  1. Open the payment run, select the items rejected by the bank and record the withdrawal reason. Approve them again before a new run.

Offset supplier credit

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Open supplier credits can be explicitly offset against later CHF invoices from the same supplier. Both items and the journal entry are saved together; approvals remain required.

Step by step

  1. Open the supplier’s outstanding credits and select a later CHF invoice from the same supplier for offsetting.

Blocked supplier

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A QMS block prevents placing the order. Only QMS supplier management permission allows a justified exception for this order; the person, order and reason are logged.

Step by step

  1. Check the block in the order. Record an exception only with the required QMS permission and a reason.

Purchasing & expenses

Expenses and account selection

iOS / Android

iOS provides Done above the keyboard and a fixed Send action. Manual changes remove the recognition badge. Android filters accounts by name or number; accruals show both.

Step by step

  1. Check the entries
  2. Done and Send

Enter without receipt

iOS / Android

Your company’s receipt-free limit applies. Describe the expense and why no receipt is available. If a receipt is required, your entries are kept so you can add one.

Step by step

  1. Enter without receipt
  2. Expense and reason for missing receipt (required)

New purchasing settings use CHF 1’000 as the dual approval threshold

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New purchasing settings use CHF 1’000 as the dual approval threshold. Existing settings are preserved. Without a threshold the person entering may approve.

Step by step

  1. New purchasing settings use CHF 1’000 as the dual approval threshold. Existing settings are preserved. Without a threshold the person entering may approve.

Incoming invoices

Finance | base › Incoming invoices

Receives invoices by e-mail, upload or scan, reads the QR code and text and proposes supplier, account, VAT code, cost centre, due date and payment reference – per line item if there are several. The primary action posts the suggestion and changes after editing booking fields. “Post and save a rule” also saves a rule for the selected scope. Without automation, future invoices remain subject to review; automation requires an amount limit.

Step by step

  1. Send the invoice to the invoice address (shown in the settings) or upload it as PDF/photo.
  2. Open the document and check the original next to the proposal.
  3. Change account, cost centre or split if needed. For a split, add further lines (up to 20); the amount not yet allocated is shown.
  4. Choose “Post and save a rule” and set what the rule applies to (e.g. a contract number or all invoices from the supplier); “automatic” only with an amount limit.
  5. During upload the button shows the reading progress; the previous upload’s message and link disappear during the next upload. Text PDFs are read directly and scanned PDFs use text recognition. If automatic reading fails, open the original and complete the invoice details manually in the proposal.

Accounts and VAT on incoming invoices

Finance | base › Incoming invoices › Posting proposal

Search accounts by number or name; recently used supplier accounts appear first. VAT codes show descriptions and rates. Recognised rates take priority over old defaults without VAT. Legacy rules use the current number in place of documented old invoice numbers.

Step by step

  1. Choose an account in the search field, for each split line if needed.
  2. Check the recognised VAT rate and posting text.
  3. Review and post, or choose the permanent posting rule.

Create and place supplier orders

Finance | base › Purchasing and bank › Purchase orders

Record purchase orders to suppliers and convert them into a supplier invoice, generate recurring expenses and post approved expense claims.

Step by step

  1. Under “Purchase orders”, enter the supplier and items; optionally select a stock-managed article of the company for each item. With an article, goods receipt posts stock at the order price; without an article, the item has no stock link.
  2. To place the supplier order, open the draft, select the “Ordered” status and save. A QMS supplier block prevents this step; an exception requires QMS management permission and a reason.
  3. When the invoice arrives, “Convert to supplier invoice” with amount and number.
  4. Under “Recurring”, set up rent or subscriptions and “Generate due items”.
  5. Under “Expenses”, post approved claims.
  6. Partial invoices cover only quantities newly delivered since the last invoice. Outstanding quantities remain open for further receipts and visible in the warehouse. “Cancel remainder” closes the undelivered quantity; received goods remain billable. The order is invoiced only after delivery or remainder cancellation and full invoicing. “+ New supplier” opens existing payable partner creation; return to the order after saving. “Suppliers” under Purchasing and bank also opens that list. The comparison shows expected amount, invoice and difference; without invoice lines, price and quantity differences cannot be distinguished.

Company card

Finance | base › Purchasing and bank › Company card

Import the company card statement, attach receipts and post each transaction or mark it as private.

Step by step

  1. Under “Import card statement” choose the bank’s CSV file and click “Import card statement”.
  2. For each transaction choose the receipt under “Receipt” and click “Attach”.
  3. Check expense account and VAT % and click “Post” – or choose “Private”.

Expenses

Finance | base › Expenses

Record expenses with a receipt, submit them and follow their status. Line managers or accounting approve; your own claim is always approved by someone else.

Step by step

  1. Create a claim with a title: “New claim”.
  2. First take a photo or choose a receipt, then enter amount, purpose, category and date. Save the line in one action; expand currency/rate and VAT only when needed.
  3. New reports copy the valid payout IBAN from your own personnel record. Check it and change it in the report if needed; the personnel record remains unchanged.
  4. Choose “Submit”; approvers find the claim under “To approve”.
  5. In a draft or after a rejection, correct a line directly (amount, date, text or receipt); the receipt stays unless you choose a new one.
  6. The list and detail name approvers and their responsibility before submission. After a decision they show the name, current base role and date; missing approvers are stated explicitly.
  7. After selecting a file, choose “Read receipt”. Existing QR/text/OCR recognition suggests the amount, date, merchant, currency and a single VAT rate. Check the details; the file remains selected for saving.
  8. For foreign currency, choose “Suggest monthly rate”, check the month and rate, then confirm. Rate fields are hidden for CHF. Enter a rate manually if none is available.
  9. Pending expense reports appear in the HR inbox for authorised approvers. Tasks open the report directly under “To approve”. The detail page also offers approval and rejection with a required reason, subject to your permissions. You cannot approve your own reports; tenant, team and company restrictions still apply. Applicants receive each decision and comment in the bell and, depending on preferences, via push and email.

Bank & payment runs

Approve a supplier invoice for payment – Approve and pay

Finance | base › Purchasing and bank › Approve and pay

Approve or block open supplier invoices and output due, approved invoices in a payment run as a payment file (pain.001).

Step by step

  1. Open “Purchasing and bank › Approve and pay” (/finance/einkauf). In “Open supplier invoices”, check the invoice and choose “Approve”. At the configured four-eyes threshold, a second, different person must approve. “Receivables and payables” offers “Post payment”, but no “Approve” button.
  2. Under “Payment run”, set the due date and execution date, then choose “Proposal”.
  3. Select the items and choose “Create run”.
  4. Download the pain.001 file directly from the run. If the bank definitely rejected it, take back the run with a reason: all items and approvals are reset together.

Check the bank account before a payment run

Finance | base › Purchasing and expenses › Purchasing and bank › Payment run

A valid company IBAN is required when creating a payment run. The notice links to the existing bank account settings.

Step by step

  1. If a bank notice appears, follow the link to Sales › Settings › Bank accounts.
  2. Save a valid regular IBAN, without a QR-IBAN.
  3. Return to the payment run and choose the items.

Execute a payment run safely

Finance | base

Approval checks, archive reference, payment order, payable items and run completion are saved together. Concurrent execution and changes to the checked data cannot create a second payment file.

Step by step

  1. Select due items, create the run and execute it with the required approval. Download the completed file directly from the run.

Bank reconciliation

Finance | base › Purchasing and bank › Bank

Import bank statements (camt.053) and credit advices (camt.054) and match each transaction, with a suggestion, to open invoices or to a rule.

Step by step

  1. Choose the bank account and import the camt file.
  2. For each open transaction, confirm the suitable suggestion.
  3. Without a suggestion, post a contra account manually or ignore the transaction. When booking manually, choose the offset account via search and the VAT code (required if VAT-registered).
  4. For recurring transactions (e.g. bank charges), create a rule.
  5. Edit every rule field, including minimum/maximum amount, VAT code and active status. For manual entries, required selection and VAT codes follow the direction and date of the bank transaction.

Terms: QR-IBAN and RF reference

Finance | base › Sales settings › Bank accounts

A QR-IBAN is a special IBAN that your bank issues for QR bills with a QR reference. You only need one if you have been given one; otherwise leave the field empty. For the QR bill your normal Swiss IBAN is enough; the payment part then carries an RF reference (Creditor Reference), which is used to match incoming payments to invoices.

Step by step

  1. Enter your normal Swiss IBAN.
  2. Enter a QR-IBAN only if your bank has issued one to you.

Bank: bank statements and payment files

Settings › Company settings › Data exchange › Bank

Reads bank statements (camt.053/054/052) and matches incoming payments to invoices, connects accounts directly via EBICS or bLink and transmits approved payment files (pain.001).

Step by step

  1. Select the bank statement, click “Check” and then “Import”.
  2. For automatic retrieval, create a bank connection, give consent and, with EBICS, send the keys and mail the letter to the bank.
  3. Once the bank has enabled the connection, click “Fetch bank keys” and then “Retrieve bank statements”.
  4. Upload the payment file; a second person approves and transmits it.

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