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# 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.

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## Communicating by WebService

To communicate a financial document to the AT by WebService, follow these steps:

**Step 1: Configuring the access to AT services**

1. Access **Taxes | Setup Taxes | Tax Settings** ;
2. Select the desired company;
3. Click**Edit**;
4. Fill in the access codes to the AT website to submit invoices on the fields **User** and **Password**;
5. Select the option **Automatic** or **Manual** on the field **Financial Communication; 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**.
6. Finally, click **Save**.

**Step 2: Configuring the communication type with the WebService**

The communication types are associated to the financial document series. To set up the document for communication by WebService, follow these steps:

1. Access **Setup | Documents | Invoice Types** /**Memo Types**;
2. Select the desired financial document from the presented list of documents;
3. Click **Edit**;
4. Select the desired series on the area **Series**;
5. Select the option **WebService** on the column **Communication Type;**
6. Finally, click **Save**.

**Step 3: Creating a financial document**

1. Access **Invoices** or **Credit and Debit Notes**;
2. Click **Create**;
3. Specify the **Customer** on the corresponding field; **Note**: The fields **Payment Term**, **Payment Method**, **Date** and **Discount** are automatically filled in.
4. Click **Save**.

Please note that, when saving the document:

- If the communication is set as **Automatic**, the document is communicated automatically;
- If the communication is set as **Manual**, to communicate to the AT, you must:
  1. Access **Taxes** | **Submit to Tax Authority**.
  2. Fill in the data interval to select the documents;
  3. Select the option **Financial** on the **Document Type;**
  4. Click **Process**.

**Step 4: Validating the communication status**

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**.

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## Communicating via SAF-T

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:

**Step 1: Configuring communication type as SAF-T**

1. Access **Setup | Documents | Invoice Types** (if you wish to set up an invoice) or **Memo Types** (if you wish to set up a credit or debit note);
2. Select the financial document and click **Edit**;
3. Select the desired **Series**;
4. Select the option **SAF-T** on the column "Communication Type";
5. Click **Save**.

**Note**: For the same document, you can have several series with different communication types.

**Step 2: Creating a financial document**

1. Access **Invoices** or **Credit and Debit Notes**;
2. Click **Create**;
3. Select the **Document Type** and the **Series** previously set up on the corresponding fields;
4. Fill in the field **Customer**; **Note**: The fields **Payment Term** and **Payment Method** are automatically filled in.
5. In the area **Products and Services,** specify the **Items** and **Quantity** desired;
6. Finally, click **Save and Send**.

**Step 3: Creating a legal statement using the documents being communicated**

1. Access **Taxes | SAF-T Files**;
2. Click **Create**;
3. Select the option**Invoice** on the field **Purpose**;
4. Specify the date interval to filter the documents;
5. Click **Save**.

**Step 4: Extract SAF-T file and submit**

To extract the SAF-T file and import it on the AT file, follow these steps:

1. Access **Taxes | SAF-T Files**;
2. Select the desired statement;
3. Click the link **Export SAF-T (PT) File;**

Submit the file on the Portal das Finanças and, on the same page, download the response file.