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title: Export journal entries to your accounting system
description: "Illizeo exports expense-report journal entries in six formats, using your chart of accounts and your mappings. Payroll entries come from elsewhere. - **Reading time**4 min - **Level**Intermediate - **Last updated**May 2026 - **Module**Compliance & exports ## One distinction that changes…"
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updated: "2026-09-24"
category: "Payroll / Compliance & exports"
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# Export journal entries to your accounting system

Illizeo exports expense-report journal entries in six formats, using your chart of accounts and your mappings. Payroll entries come from elsewhere.

- **Reading time**4 min
- **Level**Intermediate
- **Last updated**May 2026
- **Module**Compliance & exports

## One distinction that changes everything

Illizeo’s accounting module produces the journal entries for **expense reports**, not for payroll. Payroll entries come from the payroll producer, from the payslip they calculated. Both flows reach your accountant, but by different routes.

## The six available formats

| Format | Typical use |
| --- | --- |
| Generic CSV | Any accounting system that accepts a configurable import |
| Abacus | Swiss books running on Abacus |
| SwissSalary | Swiss environments using SwissSalary |
| Sage | Books running on Sage |
| FEC | French accounting-entries file format |
| DATEV | German books running on DATEV |

## Step by step

1. ### Set up the chart of accounts

   Import a recommended chart, load your own from a file, or enter accounts one by one. The chart belongs to your workspace and can be changed later.
2. ### Map categories to accounts

   Each expense category points to an account. That mapping is what turns a receipt into an entry: until a category is mapped, it produces nothing usable.
3. ### Configure the journal

   Journal code and label, piece-number prefix, default export format. These three settings must be the ones your accountant expects, not the ones that look logical to you.
4. ### Filter, then export

   Entries can be filtered before export, notably by journal code. You export a selection, not necessarily everything.
5. ### Rely on the export marking

   An entry exported successfully is marked as such. That is what prevents a double pass — the most common source of error in this kind of flow.

## What does not exist

No payroll entries generated by Illizeo. No direct connection to an accounting system: the export produces a file, which you send on. No bank reconciliation and no matching. No handling of differences between the entry and the statement.

## FAQ

   How do we get the payroll entries?

From your payroll producer. They hold the social-charge accounts and the calculation bases; Illizeo does not have them.

   Can we export twice by mistake?

Marking already-exported entries is there to prevent it. Check it before a catch-up export.

   What about VAT?

It is carried by the entry according to the category configuration. An approximate mapping produces approximate VAT.

   Who may export?

It is a named right in the Expense reports module: viewing entries and exporting them are two tiers of the same code.

### See Audit & compliance

Prepare for URSSAF, OFAS and tax audits.

[See all Payroll articles](/en/centre-aide/?cat=payroll)

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