Cash rounding

Cash rounding, also known as Swedish rounding (in Swedish: “Öresavrundning”), is the practice of rounding certain currencies to a whole amount. This is commonly used for Swedish krona (SEK) since 2012, when the 50 öre coins were withdrawn from circulation. However, it may also apply to other currencies where rounding to the nearest whole unit is preferred.
 

Enabling cash rounding for your installation

Legalsense supports cash rounding on a per-currency basis. For example:

• Invoices in SEK can be rounded to the nearest whole krona.
• Invoices in EUR can be rounded to the nearest cent.

The rounding feature can be enabled by Legalsense Support upon request. Please contact the support team if you would like cash rounding to be activated for one or more currencies in your installation.

Once enabled, all invoices in the selected currency will automatically include a rounding adjustment when applicable.

How cash rounding appears on invoices

After cash rounding is activated, Legalsense will automatically add an additional invoice line that adjusts the total amount to the nearest whole number:

The rounding adjustment is calculated in such a way that the invoice total (including tax) is rounded to the nearest whole amount.

If your installation is integrated with an accounting system, these rounding adjustments will also be reflected there. Legalsense manages this for our standard integrations. If your firm has built the integration itself, please confirm the behaviour with your integration partner.

Other amounts on the invoice - such as line items and subtotals - remain unrounded. The rounding adjustment is only added before the final computation of the invoice total to ensure that no inaccuracies are introduced.

Note: Cash rounding will not be applied to invoices that contain only disbursements.

Changing cash rounding on an individual invoice

If cash rounding has been enabled for a currency, you can manually toggle rounding on or off for specific invoices.

1. Go to the Invoice Edit page.
2. Scroll down to find the “Cash rounding” option.
3. Enable or disable rounding as needed via the dropdown list:
   
4. Save the draft invoice.

This allows flexibility - for example, if you need to issue an invoice without rounding even though it’s generally enabled for that currency.