New Release – Fiscal Client 1.2.7.

The current version of the Fiscal Client – v. 1.2.7. – is available for download: https://www.retailforce.cloud/downloads/Version%201.2.7/. The version contains an important update for Austria (FiscalAT).

FiscalAT

Due to an error, the automatic annual receipt is not created correctly. This bug has been fixed in the current version. We recommend that all customers upgrade to the latest version so that the annual receipt can be checked correctly via FinanzOnline.

Furthermore, the reduced tax rates for all food and beverages in the catering sector, as well as services in the cultural sector, which were reduced to 5% in the course of the Corona measures, were set back to the original values of 10% and 13%.

Docker Hub

As of this version, the Docker container of the Fiscal Client can be downloaded directly from the Docker Hub. Below is the link to download: https://hub.docker.com/r/retailforce/trusted-fiscal-service.

Digital receipt

Another innovation concerns our “digital receipt” service. The delivery page for digital receipts can be adapted to the company’s own corporate design. We will be happy to support you in this. Please contact us via the contact form contact form, or send us an e-mail.

As usual, you will find all changes of version 1.2.7. in the Release-Notes.

New year and new release

The coming turn of the year brings with it a change in the VAT regime in Austria. As part of the measures adopted by the federal government in the course of Corona, the VAT rates of 10% and 13% were temporarily reduced to a reduced rate of 5%. The measure applied to gastronomy, the hotel industry, the cultural sector as well as the publication sector. This temporary regulation expires at the end of the year. As of 01 January 2022, the old VAT rates pursuant to § 10 of the Value Added Tax Act (UStG 1994).

Cash register systems and other electronic recording systems must be converted accordingly in good time. The VAT department of the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) has issued a statement on the offsetting of services extending over the turn of the year.

Zitat: “For reasons of administrative economy, turnover in the hotel and catering sector that is exported during the night from 31 December 2021 to 1 January 2022 may be treated uniformly in accordance with the legal situation up to 31 December 2021 or in accordance with the legal situation from 1 January 2022.”

This means that hotels and restaurants that entertain guests in the night from 31.12.2021 until midnight and provide services that are not invoiced until after the turn of the year can choose whether to apply the reduced tax rate or the old one.

The new “old” VAT rates can be validated from version 1.2.7, which will be made available by us this week.

Version 1.2.6

Since this week, a new version of the Fiscal Client is available for download. As announced, the Fiskal Client is now available as a Docker Container on the Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/u/retailforce. Instructions for commissioning the container can be found on our support portal at: https://support.retailforce.cloud/hc/en-gb/articles/4413162938641-Linux-TrustedFiscalService-as-Docker-Container.

Significant new functions and improvements

  • Austria: the RestoreByCloud function now automatically checks whether the cash register is already registered in FinanzOnline. If this is not the case, the cash registration will be carried out.
  • Austria: to avoid rounding differences, VAT totals can be transmitted for the entire document (Document model version 1.0.3.)
  • General: the last saved document can be retrieved by the Fiscal Client

Furthermore, the error handling has been improved.

As always, you will find all changes, additions and improvements in the current Release-Notes.

Current release – Fiscal Client v. 1.2.5.

As of today, the new version 1.2.5. of our Fiscal Client is available for download at https://retailforce.cloud/downloads/. IIn this version we have extended and improved the integration possibilities of the Fiscal Client for different operating systems. You can also access the preview version of the licence accounting in the RetailForce portal.

Docker Container

The RetailForce Fiscal Service is now available as a Docker container for the country implementations Germany and Austria. If you are interested in the implementation via Docker, please contact us by (office at retailforce dot cloud) or via our Solution Center (RetailForce Software GmbH).

For Germany, the following technical security devices (TSE) are supported under Linux:

  • swissbit Cloud TSE
  • fiskaly Cloud TSE (v. 2.0)

From the upcoming version 1.2.6. the Docker Container will be available on Docker Hub.

Fiskal Service as nuget package

As a further integration variant, we are now providing the Fiscal Service as a nuget package. You can find the packages in the nuget-store at: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/RetailForceDevelopment.

Fiskaly 2.0

The integration of the Fiskaly Cloud TSE into the Fiscal Service has been completed and can also be used as of v. 1.2.5. If you use the automatic configuration of the Fiscal Clients (ConfigClient byCloud), the fiskaly Cloud TSEs are automatically provisioned via the RetailForce Cloud and stored in the Fiscal Client.

Preview for v 1.2.6.

In the next release, we plan to include the following features and functions, among others:

  • Support swissbit hardware TSE under Linux (Docker Container)
  • Deploy Docker Containers on Docker Hub

All detailed information about the new version can be found in the Release notes.