Walkthrough: Receive IE801 EMCS messages on purchase orders

Customs Document Management for Drink-IT  •  Article  •  4/23/2025  •  3 min

Before you start with this walkthrough, verify that your work date is todays date so your transactions to the EMCS Test environment will not be rejected for date reasons. The DEMO environment connects to the Belgium Government test platform. For this reason some of the setup that we use is Belgium country specific.

Our vendor Bavarian Brewery AG is based in Germany. They are a tax warehouse and we buy their delicious German Beer.

In the Customs Document Mgt. Setup you need to activate the Create Customs Document on Purchase Order Release field.

1. Select the Search icon , enter Purchase Orders, and then choose the related link.
2. Select New to create a new entry.
3. In the Vendor field, enter the name Bavarian Brewery AG.
4. Fill in lines:

Item Quantity
1710 100
1770 80

5. Choose the Release action and choose the OK button to post the receipt of the goods.
6. Choose the Customs Documents action.
7. On the Customs Documents page, choose the Edit action.
8. On the Customs Document page, select Vehicle in the Transport Unit Code field and type or select a license plate in the Identity of Transport Units field.
9. Choose the Receive IE801 message action.
10. Choose the Print e-AD Document.
11. Select the Send to and choose PDF Document.
12. Verify the message that is now visible in the Messages FactBox of the Customs Document.

  • When the Status is Success, the message was successfully received by the government.
  • When the Status is Error, you can view the details in the error message field in the FactBox. You need to solve the error and then choose the Receive IE801 action again.

Each message creates a new entry in the Customs Document Mgt. Mail History List.


Multiple customs documents can be generated for a single transaction based on the unique customs license combinations. These combinations are determined by the customs license settings defined at the location, customer, or vendor level.