Norwegian Company Setup

This page collects everything that is different when onboarding a Norwegian company compared to the Swedish setup that the rest of this guide uses as its baseline. Work through the normal import order and checklist first — then apply the deviations below.

The key difference is not technical but fiscal: a Norwegian travel agency operating as an intermediary (formidler) uses a net revenue model. Only the agency's own fees and markup are revenue; the mediated amounts (flight fares, hotel costs) are disbursements (utlegg) that pass through the balance sheet and never appear in the VAT return (mva-melding). This affects VAT posting groups, the AIR Product Posting Setup accounts, and how invoices are read — all covered below.

Region Setup

Run the standard "Setup AIR Regions" action on the Countries/Regions page (see Country/Region). The dialog pre-fills the home country from Company Information — verify it shows NO before clicking OK.

Expected result in a Norwegian company:

Country	AIR Region
NO	Domestic
SE, DK, FI, IS	Nordic
All European countries (incl. GB, CH)	Europe
Everything else	International

Because Norway is outside the EU, the NonEU regions (NordicNonEU / EuropeNonEU) are never assigned — the EU/non-EU split only matters for companies established inside the EU. Do not "correct" GB or IS to a NonEU region manually; the item mapping rows for a Norwegian company should only use Domestic, Nordic, Europe, and International.

Verify before importing item mappings

The AIR Region is a key field in AIR Order Item Mapping. Confirm NO = Domestic before importing mappings — a wrong Domestic country makes every home-country booking look up the wrong mapping row. Getting this wrong also produces the wrong MVA: Norwegian domestic passenger transport is 12 %.

VAT Product Posting Groups

Create these six VAT product posting groups (names may be adapted, but keep the distinctions):

Group	Norwegian VAT code	Rate	Used for
MVA25	3	25 %	Serving in own packages; service fees on domestic car rental
MVA12	31	12 %	Domestic passenger transport and hotel — both own-package revenue and service fees on domestic trips
MVA-FRITATT	5	0 % (zero-rated)	Service fees on all foreign mediation, including Nordic and European trips (mval. § 6-29)
MVA-UNNTATT	6	Exempt	Guiding services in own packages (outside the VAT act)
MVA-UTLAND	7	—	Foreign transactions outside Norwegian VAT scope
MVA-UTLEGG	0	—	All mediated booking amounts (flight, hotel, car rental) — disbursements, not turnover

The rules behind the table:

• Booking items are utlegg — assign MVA-UTLEGG. The amounts are not the agency's turnover, do not go into the mva-melding, and carry no input VAT deduction for the agency.
• Enable "Net Revenue Model (Disbursements)" in AIR Setup (field 70) — this is the switch that makes the import respect the utlegg groups: booking lines keep the gross supplier amount (domestic supplier VAT such as 12 % MVA on domestic flights/hotels is not subtracted), and VAT validation expects 0 % on booking lines. Without it, every domestic booking is underbilled by the supplier VAT and logs a false VAT-mismatch error. Background: Revenue Model: Gross vs Net.
• Own packages (ARR items) are sold in the agency's own name — the full amount is revenue, split per component rate: 12 % transport/hotel, 25 % serving, exempt (MVA-UNNTATT) for guiding.
• Service fees follow the main service (mval. § 4-2): 12 % on domestic transport/hotel, 25 % on domestic car rental, and zero-rated (MVA-FRITATT) on all foreign mediation. Refund, void, exchange, and voucher fees follow the trip they belong to.

Mixed activity threshold

If exempt (unntatt) turnover such as guiding exceeds 5 % of total turnover, Norwegian rules require proportional input VAT deduction on shared costs. At or below 5 % the insignificance rule applies and input VAT is fully deductible. The agency's accountant monitors this — it does not affect the BC setup itself.

AIR Product Posting Setup — Net Model Accounts

The posting logic is identical to the Swedish company (table-driven, see AIR Product Posting Setup) — only the account configuration differs:

• Sales Account and Purchase Account on booking rows point at pass-through balance sheet accounts, not revenue/cost accounts. The booking amount flows in and out of the balance sheet; nothing lands in P&L.
• Purchase Account must be populated on all UCCCF rows (Flight and GroundTransport) — the card-settlement adjustment posts against it. A blank Purchase Account makes posting fail.
• Markup Account and Service Fee Account are the only P&L accounts on booking rows — this is where the agency's actual revenue lands (zero-rated account, e.g. 3705, for foreign-trip fees).
• Diners Receivables Account must be set in AIR Setup.

Credit Cards: Diners Only

The Norwegian company uses Diners only — no FirstCard:

• Set FirstCard Enabled = No in AIR Setup (field 52). This stops any CCCA booking in import validation with a clear error and blocks FirstCard from being selected on customers
• Leave FirstCard Receivables Account empty in AIR Setup
• Skip FirstCard Article Code on items — only Diners Article Code is needed

Items and Units

• Unit of measure is STK (Norwegian), not STYCK — create it and set it as Item Default Unit of Measure in AIR Setup (field 60)
• The Gen. Product Posting Groups AIR, ARR OTH, and OTH FEE must exist before importing items
• Set the AIR Setup item defaults (fields 60–62) to the Norwegian values so items created from the Item Card get STK and the correct posting groups automatically

Country/Region Translations

AIR files carry English country names (NORWAY, SWEDEN), while a Norwegian company typically has local names (Norge, Sverige) on its Country/Region records. The vendor auto-resolution in the Missing Vendor queue searches Country/Region Translations across all language codes — so seed English translations for the countries your vendors operate in, or vendor country matching will fail silently.

Invoicing

• Payment reference: Norwegian invoices use KID, not Swedish OCR/Bankgiro. KID support comes from the Business Central Norwegian localization (KID Setup) — verify the environment runs the NO localization and configure it there. The invoice layout must not show F-skatt or Bankgiro.
• E-invoicing (EHF/Peppol): EHF is a legal requirement for invoicing public sector customers (B2G) in Norway, not for B2B. Check the customer list — if public sector customers exist, EHF delivery must be arranged before invoicing them.
• Supplier VAT on disbursement lines: under the net model the customer — not the agency — may claim input VAT on the mediated amounts, so invoices may need to show the supplier's VAT (herav mva) on utlegg booking lines. Confirm the current requirement with the agency's accountant.