Months with no sales still need a report

If you sold nothing under the contract in a given month, you still file for that month. The report says zero. Skipping it is a missing report, not a quiet month.

Why this is the most-missed filing

Nothing prompts it. There is no invoice, no order, no export, no reason to open the portal. Contractors with lumpy federal revenue — a large order every few months — often have more empty months than full ones, and the empty ones are the ones absent from the record.

How to report zero

Two ways, both acceptable:

• In the FAS Sales Reporting Portal, enter the reporting month and report zero sales directly.
• Upload the official template with the data tab left empty — the headers and structure intact, no rows below them.

What you must not do is upload a file with a placeholder row of zeros. A line with quantity zero is a transaction that did not happen, and mandatory columns cannot be left blank on a row that exists. An empty sheet and a sheet with a fake row are different things.

Keep the record

The value of a zero filing is entirely in the record: it is what shows the month was handled rather than forgotten. Whatever you use, keep evidence of the date you filed.