For the accountant: what you are being asked to do
The business you keep books for sells through a website and is registering an electronic cash register — էլեկտրոնային ՀԴՄ. Your part is one application in the same tax portal as always, and one file back. It usually takes ten minutes.
VCR is the software that will issue the receipts through that register once it is registered. The application is filed by the taxpayer, under their own signature, which is why this reaches you.
What to do
The owner will send you a link. It opens without an account or a password; the website address, the application name and a "Download the CSR file" button are all on that page. If there is no link, the owner can email you the vcr.csr file instead, and everything else is the same.
- In file-online.taxservice.am, pick the report "101. Դիմում՝ ՀԴՄ գրանցելու մասին" under code u6 — the same form as for a physical ՀԴՄ.
- Scroll to section "5. Էլեկտրոնային ՀԴՄ-ի տվյալներ". In "5.1 ՀԴՄ-ի տեղադրման հասցե" choose "Նոր" — fields 5.5 through 5.10 fill themselves in.
- Put the website address in "Ինտերնետային կայքի հասցե" and the name in "Էլեկտրոնային հավելվածի Անվանումը", attach
vcr.csr, submit, and sign with any valid electronic signature: eID, mID or CoSign. - The certificate is usually issued within a few minutes, sometimes longer. It lives somewhere else entirely: personal account → "ՀԴՄ-ներ" → "Գտնել" → scroll the table all the way to the right → download the file named like
12345678_12345678.crt. - Upload that file on the same page, or send it to the owner.
The signed PDF of the application is not the certificate, even though it looks like the final document. This is the step where people stop.
Step-by-step guide with screenshots: registering an electronic cash register.
What is not being asked of you
- Signing up for VCR: the link works on its own, with no account and no email address.
- Handing over access to the tax portal: you file the application yourself, in your own session. The page does offer a second mode where we fill the form for you — it asks for the portal login, uses it only for this one application, and does not store it unless you tick the box. You do not have to use it.
- Signing anything beyond the application itself. The service terms are accepted by the owner when they sign in; if your records need a copy, we will send a PDF with an electronic signature.
- Changing how you work: the electronic ՀԴՄ sends every sale to the tax authority itself, and the transactions show up in the taxpayer's portal account just as they do for a physical ՀԴՄ.
About an account
We do think an account makes this easier. If you keep this client's books year-round, ask the owner to give you the Accountant role: you then see receipts, sales with export, the audit log and the documents you would otherwise have to ask the owner for. And you stop needing a fresh link each time — this one lasts seven days.
That is our opinion, not a condition. Everything works through the link without an account.
Who is responsible for what
The application is filed and signed by the taxpayer, in their own account, exactly as for any other cash register. After registration the seller issues receipts through VCR: that is their job, not the accounting department's. The register can be deregistered at any time: how to do that.
The legal basis
The electronic ՀԴՄ comes from Article 380.1 of the Tax Code (added by law ՀՕ-280-Ն of 01.06.2020) and covers orders accepted through a website or an electronic application. The technical requirements and the registration procedure are in Government Decision N 1976-Ն of 03.12.2020, annexes 5 and 6.
Law ՀՕ-309-Ն takes effect on 01.01.2027: a duly registered electronic ՀԴՄ discharges the obligation to keep a physical cash register, and for some activities the electronic one becomes mandatory — the Government will set the sectors and the deadlines in a separate decision.
This is our reading of the law, not an official clarification from the tax authority.
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