Our local currency is CHF, and we have payments in CHF and EUR. We wanted to create an expense account entry which was paid out in 100 EUR. We performed the following steps to create the entry:

·      Clicked on Expense Account

·      Selected the Account

·      Entered the amount 100 and saved

·      The line got added to the cart

·      Initiated payment in EUR, the currency conversion took place, and the amount was updated as 102.87

From the above behavior of the system we understood that the amount provided for the income/expense account is always in local currency and when initiating the payment in foreign currency system would apply the conversion.

So, to create the entry we tried the following workaround:

·      We calculated the currency conversion manually for 100 EUR to CHF which would be 97.21

·      Created the expense account for 97.21

·      Initiated the payment in EUR system applied the currency conversion and updated the amount as 100 EUR and the transaction was completed.

The above workaround is not feasible as it is time consuming and there are always room for error. We have lot of stores in Europe region and there are mostly payments in local currency and EUR. It would make life simple if system could support to key in the amount in foreign currency or provide the currency conversion in the screen where the amount is entered before processing the payment.

P.S. We are also using the Income account (for cash-in) and Expense account (for cash-out) for recording cash transfers between the stores. As the tender removal and float entry operations out of the box doesn’t create any financial voucher entries in the system. So this functionality is really needed for the business for recording the day to day cash transfer transactions between the stores.