The sales registration law has cleared every step — the Chamber overrode the Senate and the President signed it on 17 September. Both cash and cards will be recorded. Here is a practical overview: what to do in November, in December and from January.
Done: sales registration is back, cards included
In August we reported that the Senate had sent the bill back to the Chamber and proposed leaving cashless payments out of registration. That no longer applies. On 9 September 2026 the Chamber of Deputies upheld its original version, the President signed the law on 17 September, and all that remains is its publication in the Collection of Laws.
For your business it comes down to one thing: EET 2.0 starts on 1 January 2027 and it covers everything a customer pays in person — cash, card, phone, watch or ring, and QR payments. Bank transfers and invoice payments are not recorded.
The only way out, the "EET OFF" regime, is open to the smallest businesses in the first band of the flat-rate tax with income up to CZK 1 million a year. A typical café, restaurant or shop with a card terminal is in scope.
Timeline: November, December, January
The Financial Administration has published a timeline on eet.gov.cz that you can plan around. Developer documentation came out on 5 June and the Playground test environment has been running since 1 July — that part is for POS vendors.
Your part starts on 1 November 2026. From that day the EET 2.0 functions are due to appear in the MOJE daně portal (in the DIS+ tax information box): you sign up for registration, report your registration units and generate the certificate your register uses to identify itself to the tax authority. The order is set by law — units first, then the certificate.
The free MOJE EET web app for the smallest businesses that don't want a POS system is planned to launch on 1 December 2026. And recording starts on 1 January 2027. January is meant to run as a pilot, but according to the Financial Administration it is already standard sales registration — don't count on January being optional.
The Financial Administration explicitly says it will keep updating the timeline. The dates from December onwards are still planned ones.
How registration works day to day
Every sale goes to the tax authority as a short data message with the bare minimum: tax ID, premises and register identifiers, sequence number, date, time and the total amount. No line items, no VAT, no customer data.
Two rules in the approved text matter for hospitality and market stalls. The register waits at least 2 seconds for confirmation from the tax authority — and if no answer comes, say because the signal drops on the terrace or at a market, the sale is sent later, within 48 hours at the latest. So the internet won't stop you selling.
And receipts: no obligation to print them is being introduced, so you don't need to buy a printer because of EET.
What to do now
Before November, get your paperwork ready so that registering takes minutes. List all your registration units — premises, stalls and sales vehicles — and the devices you sell on at each. Check that you can log in to the MOJE daně portal; without it you can't generate a certificate. And bear in mind that any later change to a unit has to be reported before the first sale after the change, within 15 days at the latest.
If you'd rather have it explained in person, the Ministry of Finance roadshow started in Prague on 17 September and continues in other regional cities. An overview of obligations is on eet.gov.cz, and the Financial Administration runs an EET helpline on 953 109 109.