Submit daily, not at month end

LHDN gives you until 7 days after the month ends for the consolidated e-invoice. That does not mean you should leave everything until then. Small daily habits catch problems while they are still easy to fix.

Why daily is better

  • Rejections are fixed while you still remember the sale. A wrong buyer TIN is easy to correct the same day, and hard to chase a month later.
  • The cancel window is short. You can only cancel a validated e-invoice within 72 hours. If you check daily, you catch mistakes inside that window. After it, you need a credit or debit note.
  • Buyers get their e-invoice on time. A named buyer who needs the e-invoice for their own records gets it the same day.
  • Month end stays small. The consolidated e-invoice is one click when the month's walk-in sales are already recorded and checked.

A simple daily routine

  1. File named-buyer invoices as you make them. Choose Named buyer on the invoice form and submit straight away.
  2. Record walk-in sales the same day, as Walk-in or general public. They wait for the monthly consolidated e-invoice.
  3. Check the dashboard. It flags documents that failed, were rejected, or are overdue. Fix anything listed.
  4. Run a daily close. On Documents, open Reports, then Daily close, and pick the date. You get a shift-end summary with totals and status and document type breakdowns.
  5. Approve customer requests. If you use the buyer request portal with review on, clear Requests before you close.

At month end

  1. Open Consolidated.
  2. Submit last month's consolidated e-invoice within 7 days after the month ends.
  3. Run the monthly report and send it to your accountant. See Reconcile every month with the export.

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