Transaction Locking

During the end of your accounting period, you might not want the creation or modification of transactions that might affect your accounts. Transaction Locking in Zoho Books helps you freeze your transactions for a specified period.

Once you lock your transactions, one cannot add, modify or delete the transactions recorded before a specified date.

Zoho Books offers the ability to lock the transactions of individual modules or lock all transactions at once. Here are the differences:

Lock Individual Modules Lock All Transactions in Zoho Books
Locks the transactions of a single module or a combination of modules. Locks all the transactions in Zoho Books.
Each module’s transactions can be locked whenever you want them to be freezed. All the transactions in Zoho Books will be locked at once.
Each module can have different lock dates. All transactions in Zoho Books will have the same lock date.

Lock Transactions

Lock Individual Modules

Some organizations, might have different departments for their sales, purchases, and so on managed by their respective heads. During the end of an accounting period, they might not all want to lock the transactions of the modules they’re responsible for on the same date.

For such and similar cases, you can lock the transactions based on individual modules instead of locking all transactions.

You can use this option if you want to:

If you are planning to lock transactions by modules, here are the transactions that will be locked under each module:

Module Transactions
Sales Invoices, Credit Notes, Invoice Payments, Customer Payments, Bills Of Supply, Debit Notes and Retainer Invoices.
Purchases Expenses, Bills, Vendor Credits, Vendor Payments, and Bill Payments.
Banking Deposits, Transfer Funds, Card Payment, Owner’s Drawing, Owner’s Contribution, Other Income, Interest Income, Tax Refunds, Credits or Refunds Received, Sales Returns, Expense Refund, Sales without Invoices, Payment to Initial Creditors, Receipts from Initial Debtors, Wage Payment, Loan Repayment, and Loan Disbursement.
Accounts Journals, Tax Payments, Tax Adjustments, and Base Currency Adjustments.

You can lock a single module or a combination of two or more modules with different lock dates.

To lock a module:

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Note: Before switching between opting to lock individual modules and lock all transactions, you must first unlock the locked transactions.

Lock All Transactions In Zoho Books

If you wish to freeze all transactions in Zoho Books towards the end of your accounting period, you can lock them all at once. This helps you to save time. When you opt to lock all transactions, all the transactions will be locked on a common lock date you specify.

To lock all transactions in Zoho Books:

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Edit Transaction Locking Details

You can change the lock date and the reason for your locked transactions. To edit the details:

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Unlock transactions

Once you start your new accounting period, you can unlock the locked transactions to enter your data. To unlock:

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Partially Unlock Transactions

Instead of opting to unlock all the locked transactions you’ve recorded in Zoho Books, you can choose to select the period for which you want to unlock the transactions. For example, you can just choose to unlock all the transactions between 11 July 2021 to 11 October 2021.

Scenario: Let’s assume Peter has locked the Sales module during the end of the accounting year. However, he figures out later that he had associated the invoices during a particular date range to the wrong customer. So, instead of unlocking the Sales module completely, Peter can just partially unlock the transactions during a particular date range.

Insight: You can partially unlock the transactions of individual modules or all modules in Zoho Books.

To partially unlock transactions:

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You can now modify the transactions that were recorded during the partial unlock period.

Notes: Transactions can be created, modified, or deleted during the unlock period. However, ensure that you unlock all the modules that might be impacted as a result of modifying the transaction. For example, if you want to edit the invoices for which you’ve recorded payments, you must enter the date range for the unlock period for both the invoices and the payments associated to the invoice.

Disable Partial Unlock

You can choose to relock the transactions that have been partially unlocked, by disabling partial unlock.

To disable partial unlock:

Transaction Locking

You will not be able to modify the locked transactions once you disable partial unlock.


See Also:
Manual Journals
Currency Adjustments
Chart of Accounts

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