Try sild on your real books first. In preview mode sild builds every invoice and compares it with the one already in Merit Aktiva, and writes nothing. You see the result before you switch.
How it works
After you connect, the shop is in preview mode. sild gets every order event and builds the invoice exactly as it would in live mode. Then it compares that invoice with the one already in Merit Aktiva, made by your current integration or by hand.
Nothing is written to your books. Checks are free and don't count towards your plan's monthly limit. The header shows "Preview mode · nothing is written to Merit Aktiva".
Check your past orders
- In the last step of the setup wizard, Check your past orders against Merit Aktiva, choose Orders from: the last 30 days, 90 days or 6 months.
- Click Start the check.
A few thousand orders take a few minutes. You can run the check again later in Orders & checks → Check past orders, where 12 months is on offer too. Orders sild has already checked are skipped.
How sild finds the invoice in Merit Aktiva
First sild looks for the invoice by number: the order number with the invoice number prefix. If there's none, it looks for an invoice with the same total and customer name, dated within three days of the order. That way it also finds invoices your current integration numbers differently.
Read the report
Open Orders & checks. The title says "What we found in your books". Choose the period at the top right.
The big number is the share of identical invoices, e.g. "identical · 4,065 of 4,218". It counts the orders that could be compared: match, differ, not in Merit Aktiva and cannot be built. Waiting orders are left out.
- Match: total, total excl. VAT, VAT, rows, item codes, customer and paid status are the same, to within 1 cent.
- Differ: the invoice was found, but a field is different.
- Not in Merit Aktiva: no invoice was found. Your current integration didn't make one, or it was deleted.
- Cannot build: sild can't make the invoice yet, usually because a mapping is missing. The order shows why.
- Waiting: the order isn't yet in the status that triggers an invoice, e.g. it's waiting for a bank transfer.
Below the numbers are cards with the most common differences, with examples. Filter the list by Differ, Not in Merit Aktiva, Cannot build, Match or All. Each order that differs shows a table: Field, sild would send, In Merit Aktiva now. Fixed something? Click Re-check.
Usual differences
- Customer: your accountant renamed the customer in Merit Aktiva by hand.
- Total: the current integration's invoice doesn't equal what the customer paid, usually a cent off from rounding. sild's invoice always equals the amount paid, so there's nothing to write off by hand.
- Total excl. VAT or VAT: a line has a different rate. Check the VAT rate mapping.
- Invoice rows: shipping or a discount is a separate line on one invoice but not on the other.
- Item codes: products are booked under different codes.
- Paid: one invoice is paid and the other isn't. Check the payment mapping.
Most often it's a manual edit your accountant made in Merit Aktiva. That's not a sild error, but it's worth a chat with your accountant.
Preview one order
- Scroll to Invoice preview at the bottom of Orders & checks.
- Choose an order and click Preview.
You'll see the WooCommerce total, the Merit Aktiva total, the rounding, any warnings and the exact request (JSON) sild would send. The same Preview button is in the sild · Merit Aktiva box on the order screen.
When is the result good enough?
The checklist on Overview needs at least some orders compared. Below 95% matching it shows a warning, but it won't stop you from switching. Look through the differences first.
Done! When the report looks right, you're ready to go live.