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Settings - Journals

Updated over 4 months ago

💡 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.

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