Financial Documents
The organizations that perform business transactions are required to communicate monthly the financial documents (Invoices, Simplified Invoices, Cash Invoices, Credit Notes and Debit Notes) to the Portuguese Tax Authority. For this, two report options for the financial documents are available: via SAF-T or WebService. The SAF-T file gathers all of your company's fiscal and accounting information for a specific period. Besides this option, you can also process and send your financial information directly to the AT by WebService. To communicate a financial document to the AT by WebService, follow these steps: The communication types are associated to the financial document series. To set up the document for communication by WebService, follow these steps: Please note that, when saving the document: This option, available in Taxes | Communication Requests, allows to check the state of all AT communication requests (whether there were performed automatically or manually). If there was a communication error, it is necessary to process again the request to the AT in the option Submit to Tax Authority. You must communicate monthly the financial documents − Invoices, Simplified Invoices, Cash Invoices, Credit Notes and Debit Notes −, by sending the SAF-T (PT) file on the Portal das Finanças. To communicate a financial document via SAF-T follow these steps: Note: For the same document, you can have several series with different communication types. To extract the SAF-T file and import it on the AT file, follow these steps: Submit the file on the Portal das Finanças and, on the same page, download the response file.Communicating by WebService
Step 1: Configuring the access to AT services
Note: If you wish to communicate immediately when saving the document, select the option Automatic. If you select the option Manual, the communication with the AT website is performed on request. In this case, the communication must be performed in Taxes | Submit to Tax Authority.Step2: Configuring the communication type with the WebService
Step 3: Creating a financial document
Note: The fields Payment Term, Payment Method, Date and Discount are automatically filled in.
Step 4: Validating the communication status
Communicating via SAF-T
Step 1: Configuring communication type as SAF-T
Step 2: Creating a financial document
Note: The fields Payment Term and Payment Method are automatically filled in.Step 3: Creating a legal statement using the documents being communicated
Step 4: Extract SAF-T file and submit