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Everything about: Accounting & Exports

Edit Sales Tax

If the small business exemption applies to you, or if you have recently become subject to sales tax, you can quickly and easily change the sales tax rates for your services and products.



Change taxes for products and services

Under Settings > Prices & Competencies (EU) or Settings > Services / Products (CH) you can click on "Options" at the top right:

Here you select the menu item "Edit prices".

In the following dialog, select "Change VAT":

You can then select the desired category and the tax rate applicable to you and perform the calculation:

Example image for Swiss tax rates (as of 2025). The tax rates offered here are automatically the rates of your country, which are taken from the address in the location settings.

Please note: The sales tax change takes effect from the moment you have recalculated it and is not retroactive for appointments already paid.

Taxation of vouchers

There is much to consider when it comes to the taxation of vouchers. We have summarized this in a separate article for you, which you can read here.

Export overview

Belbo has many reports for different use cases. On this page we show you where to find which reports. This page is still under construction.

Revenue Report

Organized by category Services/Sales/Vouchers:

  • Cash Register -> Closings -> Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual Overview
  • Barometer
  • Employee Dashboard
  • Commission Function
  • Forecast
  • Head Office

Organized by specific product groups:

  • Barometer - if barometer lines are set up - for permanent quick insight
  • Cash Register -> Closings -> Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual Overview, within the respective tabs for Services/Sales/Vouchers
  • Within the product group in the Statistics tab

Organized by individual products:

  • Barometer - if barometer lines are set up - for permanent quick insight
  • Cash Register -> Closings -> Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual Overview, within the respective tabs for Services/Sales/Vouchers
  • Within the product group in the Statistics tab

Voucher Reports

Special Cash Register Reports

Appointment Reports

Employee Reports

Working Hours Reports

Automatic accounts in bookkeeping

On this page you will find information about the accounts used by the system that directly address the cash register system.

Please note that other postings may also exist on the accounts mentioned if you have customized your posting settings yourself.

Use case SKR03 SKR04 Switzerland
General discount account 4790/4780/4770 8790/8780/8770 3800
Depending on the tax type (full tax rate/reduced tax rate/tax-free), these accounts are used for the following cases:

  • Application of a discount without a defined accounting account
  • Discounting a sold voucher: For example, if you sell a voucher for 90.00, but the value should be 100.00, the difference of 10.00 is posted against this account - not changeable.
Clearing account vouchers 4770 8770 2060
This account is used for the sale and redemption of vouchers.

  • If a voucher is redeemed in an online booking, a payment with this account is stored.
  • Is used in the cashier process for voucher redemption.

The accounts mentioned above are usually not used, as there is usually an account labeled "Vouchers". Only if there is no account labeled "Vouchers", the above accounts are used for this use case.

Clearing account voucher remainder dissolution 4771 8771 2061
This account is used for automatic voucher remainder write-off, if a value voucher is only to be redeemed for one treatment. This account is not changeable.
Clearing account for treatment packages 1718 3272 1718
  • If a treatment package is sold which is fully paid, the account is posted in the credit.
  • If a treatment package is posted which is paid by the customer at each treatment, the account is posted in the debit for the outstanding amount.
  • If a treatment package is sold on installment, the amount still to be paid (less any down payments) is posted in the debit.
  • If a treatment package is redeemed, the account is posted in the debit.

This account can be changed in the posting settings.

Clearing account for count protocol differences 2309 6969 2309
If an automatic difference write-off is performed as part of a count protocol (if the function is activated accordingly), this account is addressed. This account can be changed in the posting settings.
Clearing account for batch receipts 1409 1209 1101
If multiple receipts are paid at once, this account is used as the clearing account with the other receipts. The balance of the account is always 0. This account is not changeable.

Please note that we cannot provide advice or make adjustments to this information. If a different account is used at a specific point in your accounting, this can only be adjusted if it is noted here. Any accounting changes beyond this must be made by your tax advisor.

Cash Register Setup by Tax Office

In collaboration with your tax office, we can set up your cash register system for you.

Chart of accounts template as CSV download: Download here.
Please forward the responses from your tax office to info@belbo.com.

Data for setting up your cash register

To get started with the cash register system, we need the following information from your tax office:

  • Standard chart of accounts
    (SKR 03 or 04)
  • The usual payment methods (cash, EC card, credit card,
    bank transfer, PayPal, etc.) and their bookkeeping account numbers
    (1000, 1361, etc.)
  • Regular expense types that are taken from the cash register (advertising costs, cleaning costs, postage costs, etc.) and the corresponding bookkeeping accounts to which these expenses should be posted.
  • If desired, expenses can be assigned a posting key (please note it down!)
  • Accounts for voucher sales and redemption
  • Are vouchers taxed at the time of sale or at redemption?
  • If service packages ("subscriptions") are offered: Are the service packages taxed at the time of sale or at redemption?
  • Email address of the tax office, to receive its own bookkeeping access
  • Advisor and client number

As the owner of the company, please note the following:

  • Make sure that you and your employees have read and understood the rules in the Belbo cash register manual.
  • Let us know the evening's cash balance one day before the planned actual start.
  • Discuss with your tax office whether you are required to use a Technical Security System ("TSE") in your business. This must be ordered through Belbo.

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Service Groups: Accounting

You can specify in your cash register settings under "Posting" that certain revenues are posted to separate revenue accounts. This allows you to distinguish between services and sales items or between female and male revenues in your daily closings or in the DATEV export.
However, if you also want to distinguish between individual service or product categories, you can set the posting in the product groups.

You can access this area via Settings > Prices & Competencies > Click on a service or product group

Application example 1: You offer facial and body treatments and want to distinguish between these groups in your closings and in the DATEV export.

Application example 2: You offer both cosmetic services that you always collect directly from the customer as well as medical services that are paid by the customer's health insurance. You also want to distinguish bookkeeping-wise between both categories.

Note: If you only want to get an overview of how much revenue your respective product or service groups generate in a certain period, you can use the monthly overview, the barometer or the product group statistics. You can obtain these statistics even without assigning revenue accounts.

Assign revenue accounts

If you want to assign the services that are in a product or service group to a specific revenue account, proceed as follows:

  1. Click on the desired product or service group under Settings > Prices and Competencies.
  2. In the "Posting" tab, you can enter the desired revenue account under "Target account". This will post all revenues from this group to the desired account, regardless of the customer's gender.
  3. If the desired account is not selectable, you can add it in the "Custom chart of accounts".
  4. Only if you want to post female and male revenues to different accounts must "Target account" and "Target account male" be selected. In this case, "Target account" applies to female revenues. The gender is taken from the customer's customer file.
  5. Save your entry

Subsequently, all collected services will be posted to the desired account.

Special case children's services

Since appointments for children are normally entered in the appointment calendar under the name of the parents, your closings cannot record children separately. If you offer children's services and also want to distinguish these in closings and DATEV export, you must choose this type of posting.

Please note that all accounting account numbers shown here are examples. Please discuss with your tax advisor which accounts should be used for the different types of revenue.

Tax office: Posting

In cooperation with your tax office, you can specify which revenue accounts should be used for posting your services and sales goods if you want to distinguish between them.

You can access this area via Settings > Tax Office > DATEV > Posting
If this function is not activated, it can be activated via "Settings > Add Function".

Revenue Posting for Products and Services

Generally, the standard revenue account of your chart of accounts is used for all revenues. You can leave the selection boxes here empty if the standard account is already the correct revenue account for your services and products. Only if you want to distinguish between women's and men's sales or sales goods in your financial statements should you specify the appropriate revenue accounts here. If these do not yet exist, they can be defined in the Own Chart of Accounts.

Example of a daily settlement with standard revenue account (no assignment was made under "Posting"):

Example of a daily settlement with individually specified revenue accounts (assignments were made under "Posting"):

Voucher Revenues

Most tax offices have specific requirements for posting sales vouchers. Please ask your tax office which revenue account should be used here.

Package Sales

If you use performance packages, you can post the revenues accordingly. The preset account is normally the correct revenue account for these sales.

Export of your cash register

For your taxes, as well as for internal evaluations, various documents are available for download. You can download these exports at any time under Cash Register › Closings › Monthly Overview.

Loading Exports

To load an export, first select the desired time period for which the export should apply. You can select the desired year and corresponding month in the tab bar or specify the desired time period in the date fields. Then click the "Export" button and select the export to be loaded.

  • DATEV Export (CSV)
    This export generates a spreadsheet file in CSV format, which can be imported by accounting programs (for your tax office). Important information about the DATEV export can be found here.
  • Cash Book (HTML)
    Here you receive an overview table in HTML format of the cash book, as required by some tax offices.
  • Simple Daily Overview (HTML)
    This overview provides you with the transactions of the individual days of the desired time period in a simple HTML view.
  • Detail PDF Report
    Summary of all daily closings for the selected time period with a final revenue overview.
  • Employee Detail PDF
    Revenue of all employees, organized by categories as a basis for commission calculation and employee meetings.
  • Short PDF
    Summary of all income and expenses for a day or month without listing the individual transactions.
  • Product Report
    Track the inventory movements of a time period.
  • Transaction Overview (PDF)
    Clear listing of transactions for the selected time period. This is useful if you want to manually transfer the data to another accounting software.
  • Export by Employee (HTML)
    Generates an overview of sales for the selected time period. Organized by service and product sales.
  • Export by Payment Method (HTML)
    Generates an overview of sales for the selected time period. Organized by type of payment (cash, card payment, etc.).
  • Export by Tax Rate (XLS)
    Generates an overview of sales, organized by tax rate, for the selected time period.
  • Sales Overview (XLS)
    Generates an overview of sales, organized by services and products, for the selected time period.
By the way, in the tax office access you will find the most important exports of your cash register bundled by month. In addition to your tax office, you also have access to this data yourself and can quickly and easily export the most important cash register data. To do this, simply click on "Tax Consultant Access Preview" under Settings > Tax Office. You can learn more about this feature here.

Set up accountant access

You can grant your tax advisor its own access to your financial statements. This access does not provide any insight into your calendar, but it allows your tax advisor to access current and past financial statements at any time and make account settings.

You can access this area via Settings > Tax Advisor
If this function is not activated, it can be activated via "Settings > Add Function".

Financial data access for your tax advisor (example view)

Set up data access

  1. Click on "Settings" in the main navigation and then on the "Tax Advisor" module.
  2. Enter your tax advisor's details here.
  3. After saving, a link will automatically be sent to the email address provided. This message grants the recipient permanent access to your cash register system. Please proceed carefully.

Revoke data access

Once the message has been sent to your tax advisor, you will find a new login under Settings › Tax Advisor.
To revoke this person's access rights, you can delete the access by clicking the X icon on the right in the list.

DATEV Settings

As a rule, you can leave the settings as they are. Please do not change these settings without consulting your tax advisor or the Belbo team!

More information on posting can be found here.

Register: DATEV Export

Below we describe what configuration options you have to generate your DATEV export. Certain tools require explicit sales tax postings, for example, while for others the sales account is an automatic account.

In general, the DATEV export always follows the chart of accounts and stored account plan. Revenues can either be posted directly or via a debtor account. If postings are made "directly", different payment methods are subsequently debited from the cash account.

Direct Posting without Accounts Receivable


Customer pays 119 euros (incl. 19% VAT) directly in cash

The general posting entry without accounts receivable is as follows:

Debit Credit
1600 · 119 to 4400 · 100
3806 · 19

If 4400 is not an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into the following postings:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
100 C 1600 4400
19 C 1600 3806

If 4400 is an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into only the following posting:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
119 C 1600 4400 (Automatic Account)

 


Customer pays 119 euros (incl. 19% VAT) directly with 50 euros cash and 69 euros card

The general posting entry without accounts receivable is as follows:

Debit Credit
1600 · 50
1800 · 69
to 4400 · 100
3806 · 19

In theory, both the cash account and the card account would need to post against the sales revenues. If accounts receivable accounting is used, this can be separated more cleanly. Otherwise, the cash account is typically misused as a transit account and the full amount is debited against the cash account. Subsequently, the card account is posted from the cash account.

If 4400 is not an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into the following postings:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
100 C 1600 4400
19 C 1600 3806
69 C 1800 1600

If 4400 is an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into only the following posting:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
119 C 1600 4400 (Automatic Account)
69 C 1800 1600

Customer pays 119 euros (incl. 19% VAT) directly with 50 euros voucher and 69 euros card

The general posting entry without accounts receivable is as follows:

Debit Credit
1604 · 50
1800 · 69
to 4400 · 100
3806 · 19

In theory, both the voucher account and the card account would need to post against the sales revenues. If accounts receivable accounting is used, this can be separated more cleanly. Otherwise, the cash account is typically debited with the full amount in this case - even though no cash transaction took place! Subsequently, the card and voucher accounts are posted from the cash account.

If 4400 is not an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into the following postings:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
100 C 1600 4400
19 C 1600 3806
50 C 1604 1600
69 C 1800 1600

If 4400 is an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into only the following posting:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
119 C 1600 4400 (Automatic Account)
50 C 1604 1600
69 C 1800 1600

If you choose the cash account as the reference account, your posting entries would look as follows:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
119 C 1600 4400 (Automatic Account)
50 D 1600 1604
69 D 1600 1800

Posting with Accounts Receivable


Customer pays 119 euros (incl. 19% VAT) directly in cash

The general posting entry with accounts receivable is as follows:

Debit Credit
1200 · 119 to 4400 · 100
3806 · 19
1600 · 119 to 1200 · 119

If 4400 is not an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into the following postings:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
100 C 1200 4400
19 C 1200 3806
119 C 1600 1200

If 4400 is an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into only the following posting:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
119 C 1200 4400 (Automatic Account)
119 C 1600 1200

 


Customer pays 119 euros (incl. 19% VAT) directly with 50 euros cash and 69 euros card

The general posting entry with accounts receivable is as follows:

Debit Credit
1200 · 119 to 4400 · 100
3806 · 19
1600 · 50
1800 · 69
to 1200 · 119

If 4400 is not an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into the following postings:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
100 C 1200 4400
19 C 1200 3806
50 C 1600 1200
69 C 1800 1200

If 4400 is an automatic account, this posting entry is translated into only the following posting:

Amount Debit/Credit Indicator Account Contra Account
119 C 1200 4400 (Automatic Account)
50 C 1800 1200
69 C 1800 1200

Customer pays 119 euros (incl. 19% VAT) directly with 50 euros voucher and 69 euros card

The general posting entry with accounts receivable is as follows:

Debit Credit
1200 · 119 to 4400 · 100
3806 · 19
1604 · 50
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