FinanzOnline Offline

The FinanzOnline team of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance informs about upcoming maintenance work. This time the work will take place during the week, on the 06th of April 2022. On this day, FinanzOnline will not be available from 15:30 to 18:30. Furthermore, operations may be disrupted between 18:30 and 19:30.

Cash register notifications (registrations, deregistrations, failure notification of the signature creation unit) occurring during this period are buffered by the RetailForce Fiscal system and forwarded to FinanzOnline as soon as the portal is available again without restrictions. We recommend that planned cash register registrations are carried out at a later date, if possible.

Information on country implementations

We are currently working on the implementation of fiscalisation regulations in several countries. In the near future, RetailForce Fiscal Middleware can also be used to comply with fiscal laws in the countries of France, Denmark, Sweden and Bulgaria.

Denmark

Already with version 1.2.11, first preparations for the implementation of the Danish regulation on “Digital Sales Registration Systems” were provided. The upcoming version 1.2.12 of the Fiscal Client represents a first beta version for use in Denmark, the planned major version 1.3 will be the stable version. The RetailForce Fiscal middleware performs the required signing of the receipts, generates a data export in Danish SAF-T format and archives the data securely in the RetailForce Cloud Archive for the entire duration of the legal retention period.

France

As for Denmark, version 1.2.11 of the Fiscal Client contained changes needed for the implementation of the French fiscal regulations. RetailForce is currently working on the implementation of Infocert’s certification guidelines (NF525). The “Technical Journal” included in the above-mentioned version is required for the implementation of both the Danish and the French requirements. A first beta version for the French implementation will be made available in April. With this, the implementation work can be started and a certification process can be applied for at Infocert.

Sweden

By around the middle of the year, we will expand our portfolio with another fiscal country implementation. With the connection to a so-called control unit (Danish “Kontrollenheter”) we provide a solution to comply with the Swedish Cash Register Act. In addition to this connection, we archive the fiscal data in accordance with regulations in the secure RetailForce Cloud Archive. Please note: in addition to the use of a control unit, certification of the cash register is required in Sweden.

Bulgaria

After we had to pause the work on Bulgaria for the time being due to project reasons, we have now resumed the implementation work. A beta version will soon also be available for the transpositions of the Bulgarian regulations. The first pilot installations have already been commissioned.

Do you need help with the implementation of fiscal regulations in specific countries, or in one of the countries already covered by the RetailForce Fiscal Middleware? We will of course be happy to advise you! Simply write us a message or use the contact form.

Current release 1.2.11

The latest release of RetailForce Fiscal Middleware is available in the download directory. This version is dedicated to the preparation for the country extensions that will be available soon. You will soon find more information here in the news section of our website.

The most important innovations of this version are that with version 1.2.11:

Fiscal Module

Newly added are fields for company identification, which are used, among other things, to establish the cloud connection of the Fiscal Client. The new fields are:

  • Business identification number and
  • Statistical classification number.

and must be declared as mandatory in certain countries. The identifiers listed above have different meanings for each country. Further information on this can also be found in our Solution Centre: https://support.retailforce.cloud/hc/de/articles/4405772745617.

Technical Journal / Audit Log

As of the current version, the fiscal client can manage a technical journal, also called an audit log, which is required in certain countries. Various events can be transmitted to the middleware for this purpose.

Reprint Count

Some countries require that the number of voucher reprints be recorded. The new version 1.2.11 provides for print count management.

In the course of the extensive revisions of the Fiscal Client with the present version, many test units were also newly created and existing ones revised.

All changes and improvements of this release are listed in the release notes of the current version.

New Fiscal Client Version 1.2.10

The latest version of the RetailForce Fiscal Client is ready for use. Currently, the latest versions can be found, as usual, in the downloads section of the RetailForce website. With one of the next versions, the download area will be moved to its own website.

Main Features

Essentially, this version provides the following changes:

  • Austria: the automatic generation of the annual receipt in the cloud has been revised and improved.
  • General
    • One of the integrated validations of the Fiscal Clients checks whether the sum of the gross and net totals transferred from the POS system corresponds to the receipt total. In order to avoid error messages in case of deviations in this respect, a tolerance range of e.g. a few euro cents can now be defined.
    • With the method “UpdateClientByCloud”, configuration objects changed in the cloud can be updated on the client

As usual, you will find a summary of all changes in the release notes.

Release Version 1.2.9

Version 1.2.9 of the Fiscal Client is available in the downloads section of the RetailForce website. When upgrading to this version, please note the implementation instructions, which are also available as a Word document in the Downloads directory.

Migration tool

One of the main innovations in this version is that the middleware provides a migration tool for fiscal systems in Austria. This makes it possible to take over data collection logs (DEP7/DCL7) and AES keys from other fiscal middleware systems from other manufacturers without having to take the corresponding cash registers out of operation in FinanzOnline and then register them again. When switching to the RetailForce Fiskal middleware, it is possible to continue working seamlessly with the existing DEP7 / DCL7 (data collection log according to §7 Cash Register Security Ordinance – “RKSV”). The user key (AES-256 key) is also reused.

Fiscal Client

The Fiscal Client is now also available via NuGet. The packages can be found on the website https://www.nuget.org/profiles/RetailForceDevelopment.

Furthermore, as of now a backup copy of the Fiscal Client can be created and a restore can be carried out if required. More information can be found in the RetailForce Solution Centre in the following article:https://support.retailforce.cloud/hc/en-gb/articles/4421675764497-Moving-FiscalClient-from-one-computer-to-another.

FiscalAT

Further improvements to this version mainly concern the Austria variant of the Fiscal Client:

  • Documentation of the VAT positions was revised
  • Added call “GetStartReceipt”
  • Test methods for reporting status of cash registers, signature creation unit, annual receipt improved
  • Last added line in DEP7 can be checked against FinanzOnline (Document Verification)

FiscalDE

In the German version, Fiskaly’s cloud TSE was released for productive operation.

RetailForce Cloud

Some changes and improvements have also been made to the RetailForce Cloud Portal.

In the main menu (left), the menu item “Information” now shows the essential characteristics of the different fiscal countries. Here you can see at a glance which document types must be transferred in a certain country.

For Austria versions, the date of the first or the current last DEP entry is displayed in the terminal insights. For systems in Germany, the date of the first daily closing performed on the terminal – since the RetailForce Fiscal Middleware went live – and the last daily closing created are displayed.

All changes and improvements can be found in the release notes of this version.

Maintenance work at the Federal Computing Centre

We have just received the news about the upcoming extensive maintenance work at the Austrian Federal Computing Centre. Due to this, FinanzOnline will not be available next Saturday, 19.03.2022 in the period from 06:45 to 22:30 CET. Furthermore, the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) would like to point out that there may also be disruptions in the operation of FinanzOnline from Saturday (19.03.2022), following the aforementioned time window, until the following Sunday, 20.03.2022, until 23:00. The Federal Ministry of Finance asks for your understanding.

As usual, the RetailForce system forwards any cash register notifications (registrations, deregistrations, failure notification of the signature creation unit as well as receipt validations) to FinanzOnline as soon as the portal is available again without restrictions. We recommend that planned cash register registrations are carried out at a later date, if possible.

Maintenance work FinanzOnline

The Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance draws attention to planned maintenance work on the FinanzOnline portal. The service will not be available on Wednesday March 2nd 2022 from 15:30 until 18:00. Even afterwards, until 19:30, there may still be disruptions to operations.

As usual, the RetailForce system forwards any cash register messages (registrations, deregistrations, message of failed signature creation devices) to FinanzOnline as soon as the portal is available again without restrictions. We recommend that planned cash register registrations are carried out at a later date, if possible.

Current release – Fiscal Client 1.2.8.

The latest release of the Fiscal Client (version 1.2.8) is available in the downloads section of the RetailForce website. Major innovations mainly concern the German country version (FiskalDE) under Linux.

FiskalDE – swissbit Hardware TSE

As main features, the new version 1.2.8. supports the swissbit hardware TSE under Linux, via the Docker container, and under android (beta).

IntelliSense

For the nuget implementation, the IntelliSense class documentation has been added to the nuget packages, making development easier.

RetailForce Cloud Portal

The Global Search Box of the RetailForce Cloud Portal has been improved so that global search terms can now be used for search results from organisations, companies, shops as well as terminals.

Furthermore, larger files can now also be transmitted to the RetailForce Cloud. For large files, the upload continues (restart).

The complete release notes can be found in markdown in the folder of version 1.2.8 in the downloads directory: https://www.retailforce.cloud/downloads/Version%201.2.8/ReleaseNotes1.2.8.md

Maintenance work FinanzOnline

Attention is drawn to a new maintenance window at the Austrian Federal Computing Centre. The FinanzOnline service will not be available on Wednesday, 02 Feb. 2022, between 15:30 and 19:00. Feb. 2022, im Zeitraum zwischen 15:30 und 19:00 Uhr steht der Dienst FinanzOnline nicht zur Verfügung. In addition, operations may also be disrupted from 19:00 to approx. 19:30 on the same day. The Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance asks for your understanding.

As usual, the RetailForce system forwards any cash register messages (registrations, deregistrations, message of failed signature creation devices) to FinanzOnline as soon as the portal is available again without restrictions. We recommend that planned cash register registrations are carried out at a later date, if possible.