Cashbook & Finance

Bookkeeping, accounts, transactions, donations, banking integration, compliance, GoBD

Übersicht & Setup

Cashbook overview

Keep all accounts, entries and balances of your club at a glance. The overview shows income, expenses and open tasks.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Übersicht

Chart of accounts (set up SKR template)

Set up your club chart of accounts — based on SKR49 or SKR42. Once per choir, the basis for all entries in the cashbook.

Kassenbuch > Einstellungen > Konten (Setup beim ersten Öffnen)

Manage entry categories

Create and maintain categories like membership fee, donation or sheet music purchase to group and evaluate entries cleanly.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Kategorien

Konten

Cashbook accounts overview

See all bank accounts and cash boxes of your club with current balance, banking status and last transactions at a glance.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Konten

Create bank account or cash box

Add a new bank account, cash box or virtual account in the cashbook and optionally connect it directly to your bank.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Konten > Neues Konto

Edit or delete account

Change the name, IBAN or opening balance of an account. Delete accounts that are no longer used — provided no entries exist on them.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Konten > Konto bearbeiten/löschen

Recalculate balance

Have the balance of an account recalculated when displayed values no longer match after entry corrections or an import.

Kassenbuch > Konten > Konto öffnen > Saldo neu berechnen

Banking-Anbindung

Manage bank connections

Manage all PSD2 connections to your bank accounts in one place and see which connections are active, expired or have errors.

Kassenbuch > Konten > Bank-Verknüpfungen

Select IBAN during bank connection

Pick the correct IBAN after PSD2 login if your bank has multiple accounts. Chorilo links exactly the selected account.

Kassenbuch > Konten > Bank-Verknüpfung > Konto auswählen

Connect bank account via PSD2

Link a bank account with Chorilo so transactions are fetched automatically. Secure and legally permitted via the EU PSD2 interface.

Kassenbuch > Konten > Konto bearbeiten > Bank verbinden

Renew bank connection (90-day reauth)

Renew the PSD2 authorization of your bank before it expires after 90 days, so Chorilo can keep fetching bank transactions automatically.

Kassenbuch > Konten > Bank-Verknüpfung > Verbindung erneuern

Synchronize bank account

Fetch new bank transactions immediately instead of waiting for the next automatic sync — for example after an important transfer.

Kassenbuch > Konten > Bank-Verknüpfung > Jetzt synchronisieren

Disconnect bank connection

End the PSD2 connection between Chorilo and your bank. Existing entries remain, new transactions are no longer fetched.

Kassenbuch > Konten > Bank-Verknüpfung > Trennen

Buchungen

Show and filter entries

See all income and expenses of your club, filter by account, category, date or search term and export for analyses.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Buchungen

Create new entry

Manually capture an income or expense — e.g. cash donations, expenses or entries without bank receipt. With receipt upload and category.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Buchungen > Neue Buchung

Open, edit or delete entry

Correct the category, purpose or receipt of an entry. Delete erroneous entries — provided the period is still open.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Buchungen > Buchung öffnen

Upload receipt to entry

Upload receipts, invoices or PDF documents to an entry — compliantly stored, securely kept and available for tax audits at any time.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Buchungen > Beleg hochladen

Receipt recognition (OCR and e-invoice)

Have Chorilo read the receipt content automatically — date, amount, sender. Saves typing on receipts, invoices and e-invoices.

Kassenbuch > Buchungen > Beleg-Erkennung (OCR / E-Rechnung)

Reconcile bank entries (reconciliation)

Reconcile imported bank transactions with your manual entries. Chorilo automatically suggests matching pairs — you confirm or reject.

Kassenbuch > Buchungen > Reconciliation bestätigen / verwerfen

Rechnungen & Spenden

Create donation receipt

Issue charitable donors an official donation receipt for tax purposes. Chorilo produces a print-ready PDF for download.

Kassenbuch > Spendenbescheinigungen > Neue Bescheinigung

Donation settings

Store club data, tax number, tax exemption notice and templates for donation receipts and invoices once and for all.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Spenden-Einstellungen

Invoices — Overview

All of your choir's own invoices in one place: create, finalize, cancel, archive — with ZUGFeRD/XRechnung support.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen

Create invoice

Create a new invoice with recipient, line items and template. Live preview on the right, save as draft or finalize directly.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen > Neue Rechnung

Open invoice and view PDF

Look at a single invoice in detail: PDF preview, status, recipient, line items, linked cashbook entries and all actions.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen > Rechnung öffnen

Edit invoice draft

Edit saved invoice drafts — recipient, line items, date, template. Only possible while status is Draft.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen > Rechnung > Bearbeiten

Delete invoice draft

Delete invoice drafts that are no longer needed. Finalized invoices can never be deleted — only cancelled.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen > Rechnung > Löschen

Finalize invoice

Turn a draft into a final invoice: a number is assigned, the PDF generated and placed in the S3 archive, then immutable.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen > Rechnung > Finalisieren

Cancel invoice (credit note)

Reverse a finalized invoice in a GoBD-compliant way via a credit note — the original invoice stays intact and gets the status Cancelled.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen > Rechnung > Stornieren

Manage invoice templates

Design the layout of your invoices with the visual template editor — header, footer, logo, fonts, colors, stationery. Multiple templates per language possible.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen > Einstellungen > Vorlagen

Number sequence for invoices

Configure the format of your invoice numbers with placeholders like %Y, %m and %04N — e.g. RE-2026-0001. Reset yearly, monthly or never.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen > Einstellungen > Nummernkreis

Seller data and tax mode

Store association data, tax mode (regular / small-business exemption §19 German VAT Act), IBAN, VAT ID and logo once — applies to all invoices.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Rechnungen > Einstellungen > Steuer & Verkäufer

Berichte & Compliance

Analyses and reports

Create analyses like income/expense overview, category report or donation list — as PDF or Excel for the board and general meeting.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Berichte

Compliance export for tax auditors

Export your cashbook in DATEV format or as XML — for tax advisors, the tax office or audits.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Export

Period closure / year-end closing

Close a quarter or fiscal year and freeze all entries in a compliant way. Corrections are then only possible via correction entries.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Periodenabschluss

Compliance and audit log

See the unchangeable record of all entry changes — who edited what when. Compliant for tax auditors and cash audits.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Compliance / Audit-Log

Import entries from CSV

Import bank transactions, batch receipts or data from old accounting systems via CSV — with column mapping and duplicate check.

Chöre > Chor öffnen > Verwaltung > Kassenbuch > Import