💡 Journals are automatically provided and configured correctly by Douano. There are three default journals: Purchase Journal, Sales Journal and Financial Journal.
⇢ Go to Settings - Invoicing - Journals and click on a journal to open it.
General data
Name: the name of the journal.
Journal type: the type of this journal (e.g. Sales, Purchase, Financial).
Visible in dropdowns: enabled by default so the journal appears in selection menus.
Chronological: iIf checked, entries in this journal must be recorded in chronological order.
💡 This ensures that sales invoice numbers are sequential and time-ordered.
💡 In Belgium, chronological invoicing is legally required.
Default: you can set one journal per journal type as the default journal.
💡 The default journal is automatically selected when creating new entries.
Booking Period
💡 This section allows you to define the allowed posting period for each journal. Useful for preventing new entries in already closed periods.
Start date: the date from which bookings are allowed.
End date: the date until which bookings are allowed.