What it is
The daily póliza (a Mexican journal entry voucher) is the revenue entry Containn creates when your night auditor signs the business day in Finances → Day close. Nobody keys it in and it is never recalculated: it is built from the lines of the frozen sheet, so it says exactly what was signed. There is only one per signed day of each property.
Each line on the sheet carries a hotel concept, that is, a transaction code such as 001 Room revenue, with its side, base, tax and total. The póliza translates each concept into the account you assigned in Conceptos y sus cuentas (concepts and their accounts; see mapping your concepts).
How it is built, line by line
| Sheet line | Debit | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| Guest consumption: room, food, other charges | Guest ledger (Clientes · huéspedes en casa) for the total | The concept's revenue for the base; each tax and the service charge, to its own account |
| Payment: cash, card, transfer | The concept's cash or bank account | Guest ledger |
| Deposit for a future stay | The concept's cash or bank account | Advance deposits (Anticipos de reservas) |
| Deposit transfer on the guest's arrival day | Advance deposits | Guest ledger |
The guest ledger gets one line for the day's consumption and one for its payments; deposits are added into one advance-deposits line. Each tax goes to the account you assigned in Impuestos y sus cuentas (taxes and their accounts) if the sheet carries its breakdown and it adds up exactly; otherwise the whole tax goes to the general output-tax account, never prorated (one account per tax).
An example
For example, a 40-room hotel signs a day with 25 rooms at 1,200.00 MXN plus IVA (value-added tax) and ISH (state lodging tax, with its own account), 2,000.00 MXN of restaurant charges posted to rooms, 25,000.00 MXN in payments and a 3,000.00 MXN deposit for next week. With the base chart of accounts and the concepts mapped:
| Account | Line | Debit (MXN) | Credit (MXN) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 105-01 Clientes · huéspedes en casa | Day's consumption on guest accounts | 38,020.00 | |
| 101-01 Caja del hotel | 080 · Cash | 5,000.00 | |
| 102-01 Bancos · depósitos de tarjeta | 081 · Card | 20,000.00 | |
| 102-02 Bancos · transferencias | 086 · Transfer · deposit for a future stay | 3,000.00 | |
| 401-01 Hospedaje | 001 · Room revenue | 30,000.00 | |
| 208-01 IVA trasladado | IVA · Room revenue | 4,800.00 | |
| 213-01 Impuesto sobre hospedaje por pagar | ISH · Room revenue | 900.00 | |
| 401-02 Alimentos | 020 · Restaurant | 2,000.00 | |
| 208-01 IVA trasladado | IVA · Restaurant | 320.00 | |
| 105-01 Clientes · huéspedes en casa | Day's payments | 25,000.00 | |
| 206-01 Anticipos de reservas | Deposits received for future stays | 3,000.00 | |
| Sumas iguales (equal totals) | 66,020.00 | 66,020.00 |
What it keeps
- Number: the month's sequence number (numbering and the period).
- Date: the business date, even if the day is signed the next morning.
- Description: Ingresos del día (the day's revenue), with the date and the property name.
- Currency: your hotel's currency, frozen with the sheet.
- Invoices: the UUIDs (fiscal folio numbers) of the CFDIs (Mexican electronic invoices) issued on that date. The CFDI column in the list shows how many, and they travel with the póliza in XML.
- Trail: revenue, tax and payment lines say which concept they came from.
Step by step
- Open Containn → Pólizas and type the month in the Mes (month) field, for example 2026-09.
- Find the Ingresos del día póliza with the date you want.
- Click it: it opens in full below, with account, description, debit, credit and the Sumas iguales (equal totals).
What can go wrong
- The day has no póliza. If something was missing at signing (an account, an unmapped concept, a closed month), the póliza is not created; it is never created halfway (why it is not generated).
- Reopening the day does not rebuild the póliza. If the day already had a póliza and you sign it again, the póliza stays as it was. The correction goes in a manual póliza.