Canceling an LHDN Invoice Submission

Canceling an LHDN Invoice Submission

Introduction

Learn how to seamlessly submit your invoices to the LHDN MyInvois portal directly from Zoho Books. Ensure compliance with just a one-click.

How to Manually Cancel an Invoice That has been submitted to LHDN

Invoices can only be canceled within the first 72 hours of submission 


  1. Open an Invoice that has been submitted to LHDN 

  2. Note down the Invoice UUID (bottom of the invoice page) 
  3. Open the MyTax portal for the organization 
  4. Navigate to documents 
  5. Find the related document with corresponding UUID and open it 
  6. Click "cancel" on the right side of the document's tab row 
  7. Fill in reason for cancelation and click "initiate cancelation"

Editing and updating an invoice in Zoho Books to re-push 

After canceling an invoice in the  LHDN Portal, you may edit the document should your Zoho settings allow it. 
 Two settings need to be checked to ensure you can edit pushed invoices : 

Enable editing of invoices 

  1. Find the first setting in settings > invoices > allow editing of sent invoices



  2. The second setting is under settings > users > roles 

    In this settings, you will need to ensure everyone that should be canceling and editing invoices at any point needs access to both  the "edit invoices" option. 



Updating Invoices for correction and re-pushing 

Once editing is enabled:
  1. Edit the canceled invoice  
  2. Navigate to the UUID and Public link fields 
  3. Delete the UUID and Public Link 
    4. Info
    1. deleting these will allow you to re-push the invoice to the LHDN portal
  4. You may now edit the invoice as necessary 
  5. save 
  6. re-push as necessary

Voiding an invoice in Zoho Books 

NOTE: voiding is only for the Zoho Books system and does not effect anything in the LHDN system.
It is advised to only void if you have already canceled the invoice in LHDN, and do not need the invoice anymore. 
  1. Open 3-dot menu on the top bar of an invoice 
  2. Click void 
  3. Fill in reason for voiding and click "void it"


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