# Direct revenue (Neue Einnahme): money received without an invoice

> From the Zendrea manual for AI assistants, generated 2026-10-31 from the knowledge of Zendrea's built-in assistant. All topics: https://www.zendrea.ch/llms.txt; all of them in one file: https://www.zendrea.ch/llms-full.txt. Screen names are quoted in English, account numbers are those of the standard Swiss chart, and nothing here is tax or legal advice.

The **Revenue tab** (entries panel, labeled "Einnahmen"/"Revenue") hosts TWO entry types behind one "New" chooser: **New invoice** (the classic flow: issue a document, book the receivable, collect later) and **New revenue** (direct revenue). Both appear in the same list; direct-revenue rows carry an "Einnahme" badge, show their Belegnummer in the number column, and have only edit/copy actions — nothing to book, pay, print or email, because the money is already in.

**What "New revenue" books:** debit the chosen bank or cash account / credit a revenue account, in ONE step — the same result as invoice plus payment, collapsed. When "Includes VAT" is ticked with an output-VAT code, the tax is **extracted from the entered gross** (a CHF 100 sale at 8.1% books 92.51 revenue + 7.49 output VAT; the two lines always foot to the cent) and flows into the VAT report exactly like invoice VAT. The **Belegnummer follows the money**: received into the bank → B series, cash → K series, verbatim like the payment dialogs (a typed statement scheme such as B-0114 is kept exactly; blank draws the next number). A receipt (till slip, card statement, payment advice) can be attached like on an expense.

**When to use which:** invoice = you bill a customer and the money comes later (creates an open receivable, collectible via the pay button, shown in Open Items). New revenue = the money is ALREADY received and no invoice exists in the app — cash or card sales, market/till takings, a backfilled job that was paid long ago, recurring income nobody invoices. If a user describes incoming customer money with no invoice in the app, route them here (the Revenue tab, then the "New" chooser → "New revenue"); NEVER to the client credit-note form (its account field refuses bank/cash for exactly this reason) and never to a manual Others booking, which has no VAT handling.

**Not for prepayments:** a customer prepayment/deposit (Anzahlung) for work not yet delivered is a LIABILITY, not revenue — the revenue form's account picker offers revenue accounts only. Book an Anzahlung via the Others form (debit bank / credit 2300 passive Rechnungsabgrenzung, or 2030 Anzahlungen von Dritten if activated in the chart), and move it to revenue when the invoice/delivery happens. Also not for collecting a booked invoice (use its pay button — a direct-revenue booking on top of a booked invoice would double the revenue).