Check an AWV report to the Bundesbank

This notice flags a large payment from abroad for which you may have to file a statistical report with the Deutsche Bundesbank. It changes nothing on your invoice. On the dashboard it shows as "Review task"; the task reminder by email, which is in German, lists it as "AWV-Meldung an die Bundesbank prüfen (über 50.000 € grenzüberschreitend)".

What happened

A single payment of €50,000 or more from a payer abroad was matched to an order, and the invoice has been created. The notice appears only when all of the following apply:

• Your registered address in the company details is in Germany.
• The country of the billing address, which Rechnungskit takes as the payer's country, is not Germany.
• It is not a test payment from test mode.
• The amount can be valued in euros. For foreign currencies Rechnungskit uses the rate the invoice uses. If there is no rate, no notice appears.

The text then reads: "Cross-border payment of €… detected (threshold €50,000, since Jan 1, 2025). As a German resident, you may have to report it to the Deutsche Bundesbank under the AWV (Z4 report, due by the 7th business day after month end)."

Why Rechnungskit stops here

Rechnungskit does not hold anything back here; the document has already been created. The notice points you to a reporting duty that is easy to miss. How to read it:

• It is a purely statistical report on foreign trade and payments. Invoice, VAT and DATEV export are unaffected.
• The threshold applies to each individual payment, not to a monthly total. Payments that exceed €50,000 must be reported (§ 67(2) no. 1 AWV). Rechnungskit shows the notice as a precaution from exactly €50,000.
• Payments for the export or shipment of goods do not have to be reported (§ 67(2) no. 2 AWV). If you sell goods abroad, there is nothing to report. Rechnungskit still shows the notice because it cannot reliably tell what the payment was for.
• It has nothing to do with the €50,000 threshold of the EC Sales List (Zusammenfassende Meldung). The two reports only share the number.

How to resolve it

1. Open the payment under Payments and check the amount, payer and country. On the dashboard, "Open" on the task takes you straight to this payment.
2. Clarify whether you have a reporting duty, with your tax advisor if needed.
3. If you do, report the payment yourself through the Bundesbank's reporting portal, by the 7th business day of the following month (§ 71(6) AWV).
4. Rechnungskit does not take over the Z4 report and does not file it for you.
5. Once you have filed the report, or confirmed that none is needed, mark the task as done under Invoices in the "To review" tab with "Mark as done". Rechnungskit records in the activity log who closed it and when.

Sources: § 67 AWV, § 71 AWV, Bundesbank: information on the AWV change from January 2025 (German)

When the task closes on its own

It does not close automatically, because Rechnungskit cannot know whether you have filed the report. The notice therefore stays on the dashboard and in the task reminder until you close it in the "To review" tab with "Mark as done".

The menu counter under Payments deliberately does not count this notice. Each payment gets at most one notice, even if it is matched again.

Related settings

• Settings → Task reminder by email: the notice appears there as long as it is open
• Settings: company address in the company details, which decides whether you count as a German resident