About export types

Export types determine the automatically suggested sales account and VAT category on sales or customer invoice lines and sales order lines. You can set an Export type in the Customer classes (AR201000) and Customer locations (CR303010) windows.

Export type on customer location

When you have a customer with a location in a different country than the main location, requiring a different VAT calculation and sales account, you can give the location the appropriate export type. The system reads the Export type value from the customer location first, and if not set, from the customer class.

Export type determines sales account and VAT category

Export types determine the:

• sales account on sales documents
• VAT category on sales documents for lines with item IDs

Generally, each Export type corresponds to one sales account and VAT category, according to the following table:

Export type	Sales account	VAT category
Domestic	Sales account	Sales VAT category
Domestic exempt VAT	Sales - non-taxable account	Exempt VAT sales VAT category
EU	Sales - EU account	Sales EU VAT category
Export	Sales - export account	Export VAT category

There are situations where the above table does not apply. For more information, see: About suggested sales accounts and About suggested VAT categories.