Clear vouchers

Vouchers that have not been redeemed after a certain period of time can be cleared with e-guma, e.g. annually on 31 December. A detailed report shows you the total amount of all cleared vouchers. You can post this amount from the voucher account (liabilities) to a revenue account (extraordinary revenue) in your bookkeeping.
Cleared vouchers can still be redeemed and are specially marked in the redemption report.

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Site Map

In the menu of your e-guma voucher system, select Accounting -> Clear vouchers. On the Site Map you can see all the clearings that have been carried out (manually and automatically). The listing contains the most important information on the clearings at a glance. 

Report

The report as an Excel or PDF file is essential for accounting. The report shows in detail the total amount of all vouchers that have been cleared. Post this amount in your financial accounting from the voucher account to an income account (e.g. voucher account/non-standard income without VAT).
Vouchers on account that have not yet been paid will not be cleared.
Excel report
PDF report

          

Clear vouchers manually

Manual clearing has the advantage that it is very flexible and you can do it at any time. To do this, in the menu of your e-guma voucher system select Accounting -> Clear vouchers. Click on the blue Clearing button at the top right.

Clearing criterion

Now a new dialogue window will be opened. You can select from the three different clearing criteria:

Issued or Expired

For the first option ( Issued), vouchers issued before a certain date are cleared. For the second option (Expired), vouchers which have expired before a certain date are cleared. 

Once you enter a date, e-guma immediately calculates how many vouchers (incl. total amount) will be cleared. By clicking on the link Show preview you can download a list of the vouchers to be cleared for checking purposes (this list is only a preview).

With a click on the blue Clearing button, the clearing will be initiated. The clearing can take several minutes.

Individual

With the option Individual, you can enter one voucher code per line. e-guma immediately calculates how many vouchers (incl. total amount) will be cleared. With a click on the blue Clearing button, the clearing will be initiated. The clearing can take several minutes.

Retroactive clearing

If you forget to carry out the clearing at the end of the month, you can carry out the clearing retroactively. What happens? For voucher archives between the retroactive date and today, the vouchers that have been cleared are removed.

When listing the clearing on the Site Map, the date for the retroactive clearing is displayed as the clearing date. The second line shows the date on which the clearing was carried out.

      

Clear vouchers automatically

If you always want to clear your vouchers at the same time, we recommend that you activate automatic clearing. In the menu of your e-guma voucher system, select Settings -> Voucher system. Scroll down and activate the field Automatically clear vouchers.

Time of execution

You can choose the last day of each month. As a rule, vouchers are cleared on the last day of the business year. However, you can also flexibly select several months.

Clearing criterion

Here you can determine the clearing criterion and the number of years. For the first option, Issued, vouchers that were issued more than 2 years ago, for example, can be cleared.
For the second option, Expired, vouchers that expired more than 2 years ago, for example, can be cleared.

Notification

Would you like to be notified a few days before and immediately after clearing? If so, you can enter the desired e-mail address(es) here.

You also have the option of sending the notification to all users with Administration and Accounting rights. In this case, the e-mail will be sent to the e-mail addresses stored in the user profiles.

You will receive an e-mail on the 20th of each month (from 9:00). The e-mail will inform you of the imminent automatic clearing. As soon as this has been successfully carried out, you will receive a confirmation including a report of all vouchers that have been cleared. You can also view this report at any time on the Site Map of the Clear vouchers menu. 

Information about the next automatic clearing

If you have activated automatic clearing, information on when the next automatic clearing will take place appears at the top of the Accounting -> Retire vouchers menu.

    

Maison vouchers

If you book Maison vouchers when issuing, the Maison vouchers will also be cleared. In the reports, the Maison column shows whether a particular voucher is a Maison voucher.

If you do not book Maison vouchers when issuing, or you only book these when redeeming, the Maison vouchers will not be cleared

            

Cleared vouchers in the voucher management system

As soon as the clearing has been made, e-guma changes the status of the selected vouchers to Cleared. 
In principle, cleared vouchers are  hidden in the voucher management. To search for a cleared voucher, enter the 12-digit voucher code.
If you want to view all cleared vouchers, in the Search function, in the Status field, enter Derecognized.

   

Redeem cleared vouchers

You can redeem cleared vouchers like all other vouchers.

   

Cleared vouchers in the redemption report

In the Redemption Report, fully redeemed vouchers can be identified by an asterisk (*) after the voucher code. If the redemption report contains vouchers that have been cleared, the total of these vouchers is shown at the top of the report.

To show only the vouchers that have been cleared in the redemption report, open Show additional filters and select Cancelled vouchers only.

As the credit of a cleared voucher has already been transferred from the voucher account to a revenue account, it is necessary to post the redeemed amount back to the voucher account (revenue reduction/voucher account). We recommend that you make this adjustment entry monthly.

   

Cleared vouchers in the voucher archive

Cleared vouchers are not present in the Voucher archive.