Export LC for ERPNext

Export letter of credit management for ERPNext v16—from sales order to commercial invoice and delivery.

Read the LC management guide · Explore Import LC

See each export credit beside the order, invoice and delivery it governs

ERPNext manages sales orders, invoices, deliveries and accounting. Export LC adds the documentary-credit record between those steps, helping export teams keep commercial terms, bank fields and utilization in the same workflow rather than rebuilding the position in spreadsheets and files.

Scope: Export LC records and maps LC data inside ERPNext. It does not connect to a bank, transmit SWIFT messages or replace bank approval and document-checking procedures.

Export LC workflow at a glance

Sales Order
     │
     ▼
Export Proforma Invoice
     │
     ▼
Export LC
     ├────────► Sales Invoice (Commercial Invoice)
     └────────► Delivery Note
                      │
                      ▼
       Utilization and LC status recalculated

What teams can do

Task	How Export LC helps
Start from approved sales data	Create an Export Proforma Invoice from a Sales Order and carry forward items, currency and commercial details.
Maintain the documentary credit	Record the Export LC with applicant, beneficiary, issuing and beneficiary bank, value, dates, tolerance and shipment/document terms.
Create commercial documents	Create a Sales Invoice (commercial invoice) or Delivery Note from the Export LC without re-entering the transaction.
Monitor drawdown	Calculate utilization from submitted Sales Invoices linked to the Export LC.
Read lifecycle status	Use Draft, Active, Partially Utilized, Fully Utilized, Expired and Cancelled states to identify the next action.
Review activity visually	Use the Export LC workspace, shortcuts and status chart for a faster operational view.

The form also contains a selectable Closed status for manual use; the automatic status calculation does not assign it.

Familiar MT700-aligned fields

The Export LC form includes commonly used documentary-credit fields such as reference number (F20), issue and expiry dates (F31C/F31D), credit form (F40A/F40E), applicant and beneficiary (F50/F59), tolerance (F39A), partial shipment and transshipment (F43P/F43T), latest shipment date (F44C), goods and documents (F45A/F46A), additional conditions (F47A), charges (F71D) and instructions (F78).

These fields help structure LC information; they do not claim automatic SWIFT MT700 generation or transmission.

Product screenshots

Export Proforma Invoice	Export LC record

Export or import—which app do you need?

Use case	Choose this app
A buyer opens an LC in your favour and you ship against it	Export LC THIS REPOSITORY
You open an LC to buy goods, materials or machinery from a supplier	Explore Import LC →

Businesses—including ready-made garment exporters using back-to-back LCs—can install both apps to manage each direction. In the current version-16 repositories, the apps manage their respective workflows; they do not automatically create a master export LC/back-to-back import LC relationship across apps.

Understand the complete import and export LC workflow

Installation

Frappe Cloud

The simplest setup for managed installations.

Install Export LC from the Marketplace →

Self-hosted bench

Use an existing Frappe/ERPNext v16 bench:

bench get-app https://github.com/invento-software-limited/export-lc.git --branch version-16
bench --site your-site.example install-app export_lc
bench --site your-site.example migrate
bench build --app export_lc

After installation, open Export LC from the ERPNext app switcher. Setting up a new bench or site? Start with the official Frappe installation guide.

Compatibility

• Frappe and ERPNext: v16 (>=16.0.0-dev, <17.0.0-dev)
• Runtime: Python 3.10 or newer · App branch: version-16

The repository also has a develop branch for active development; production v16 installations should use version-16.

Documentation and support

Read the user guide → · View the product overview → · Browse all documentation →

Need help? Open a reproducible issue.

When reporting a problem, include your Frappe and ERPNext versions, the affected document type, steps to reproduce and a redacted screenshot where useful. Never include LC numbers, bank credentials or confidential trade documents in a public issue.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Install the repository's pre-commit hooks before opening a pull request:

cd apps/export_lc
pre-commit install
pre-commit run --all-files

The project uses Ruff, ESLint, Prettier and Semgrep alongside its CI checks.

Publisher

Built and maintained by Invento Software Limited, an ERPNext partner in Bangladesh.

License

MIT. See license.txt.