The accounting journal

The journal is the running list of every booking in your accounting. Each line records a movement of money between two accounts — a debit (Soll) and a credit (Haben) — with a date, an amount, a currency and an optional tax code.

Open the journal

Go to Finance → Journal to see all bookings. By default the list shows the current booking year (business period). Each row shows the booking number, date, credit account, debit account, text, reference, tax and amount with its currency.

Filter the list

Use the filter row at the top to narrow down what you see:

• Search — type in the search box to match on the booking's reference, number or text.
• Period — pick a date from and date to to limit the list to a range. If you pick a from-date later than the to-date, Vinosoft corrects the range for you.
• Currency — restrict the list to bookings in one currency.
• Account range — enter an account from and account to number to show only bookings that touch accounts in that range. Both fields autocomplete against your chart of accounts.

The filters combine, and the URL updates as you filter, so you can bookmark or share a filtered view.

Open a single booking

Click a row to open its details. A booking can be a single line or a collective booking made up of several linked lines grouped by date and currency. The details show each line's debit and credit account, amount and text. If the booking came from an invoice or creditor payment, the details link back to that document.

Add a manual booking

1. On the Journal screen, click Create finance operation.
2. Set the date and an optional reference.
3. Add one or more lines. For each line choose a debit account, a credit account, an amount and currency, an optional tax, and a text.
4. Save the booking.

Export and account sheets

• Export to CSV downloads the currently filtered journal as a CSV file.
• Account sheet and Account sheet compact produce a per-account PDF ledger (Kontoblatt) for the accounts in your current filter, including the opening balance carried forward (Saldovortrag).

Related: Finance. See also Accounts and the chart of accounts for the accounts these bookings use, and Tax codes and rates for the tax codes.