Fiscal Days and Z-Reports — Close the Day Correctly
Overview. ZIMRA groups receipts into fiscal days. A day opens automatically when your first invoice of the day is fiscalised, and must be closed within the window ZIMRA set for your device (usually 24 hours). Closing produces the Z-report: the signed daily totals ZIMRA reconciles against your receipts.
Check the Day Before You Close
Portal → Devices → the device card shows the open fiscal day number, when it must close by, and hours remaining. It also lists blocking receipts — invoices sitting in error inside this day. Clear those first: an unresolved Red receipt inside the day is exactly what stops a clean close.
Close the Day
Click Close Day on the device card. The day is closed with its device signature and the Z-report is generated. A day left open past your device's maximum day length (usually 24 hours) is closed automatically, so an evening you forget is not an evening you have lost.
Read the Report
The report shows sales by tax rate, tax by tax rate, credit and debit notes, and balances by payment method, per currency. Open days produce the same figures as an X-report — a mid-day read that changes nothing. Both are on the device card.