---
title: "Enable variable exchange rate for Administrators - Payhawk Help Center"
slug: "please-enable-variable-exchange-rate-and-variable-currency-for-the-journal"
description: "Fix the Exact Online journal export error: set the purchase journal currency to Variable exchange rate and check the bank account mapping in the Payhawk wizard."
updated: 2026-10-21T07:33:32Z
published: 2026-10-21T07:33:32Z
canonical: "payhawk.com/please-enable-variable-exchange-rate-and-variable-currency-for-the-journal"
---

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# Please enable variable exchange rate and variable currency for the Journal.

## Error message

```plaintext
Please enable variable exchange rate and variable currency for the Journal.
```

## Relevant ERP integrations

- Exact Online

## Cause

The selected purchase journal is not configured to support **Variable Exchange Rate** in the ERP.

## Solution

1. In the ERP, go to **Master Data** > **Journals** > **Selected Purchase Journal** > **Currency**, and select **Variable: Exchange Rate**.
2. Verify that the correct journal is selected (the one in the screenshot is an example).

![Purchase journal in Exact Online with Variable: Exchange rate selected](https://cdn.payhawk.com/Adm%3AIntegrations%3AError%20messages/Variable_exchange_rate_journal_1_20261020_manual.png)
3. Go back to the Payhawk configuration wizard and make sure that the bank account for the corresponding currency is mapped and that the purchase journal for Payhawk expenses corresponds to the variable of the selected purchase journal in the ERP.

![Map accounts step of the Exact Online configuration wizard with bank accounts and the purchase journal mapped](https://cdn.payhawk.com/Adm%3AIntegrations%3AError%20messages/Variable_exchange_rate_journal_2_20261020_ai.png)