odoo/odoo · error · UserError

The register payment wizard should only be called on account

Error message

The register payment wizard should only be called on account.move or account.move.line records.

What it means

account.payment.register.default_get raises this when the wizard is opened with an active_model that is neither 'account.move' nor 'account.move.line'. The wizard resolves which journal items to pay exclusively from those two context keys; any other model means it was invoked from the wrong action or with a hand-built context.

Source

Thrown at addons/account/wizard/account_payment_register.py:947

    # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # LOW-LEVEL METHODS
    # -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    @api.model
    def default_get(self, fields):
        # OVERRIDE
        res = super().default_get(fields)

        if 'line_ids' in fields and 'line_ids' not in res:

            # Retrieve moves to pay from the context.

            if self.env.context.get('active_model') == 'account.move':
                lines = self.env['account.move'].browse(self.env.context.get('active_ids', [])).line_ids
            elif self.env.context.get('active_model') == 'account.move.line':
                lines = self.env['account.move.line'].browse(self.env.context.get('active_ids', []))
            else:
                raise UserError(_(
                    "The register payment wizard should only be called on account.move or account.move.line records."
                ))

            if 'journal_id' in res and not self.env['account.journal'].browse(res['journal_id']).filtered_domain([
                *self.env['account.journal']._check_company_domain(lines.company_id),
                ('type', 'in', ('bank', 'cash', 'credit')),
            ]):
                # default can be inherited from the list view, should be computed instead
                del res['journal_id']

            # Keep lines having a residual amount to pay.
            available_lines = self.env['account.move.line']
            valid_account_types = self.env['account.payment']._get_valid_payment_account_types()
            for line in lines:

                if line.account_type not in valid_account_types:
                    continue
                if line.currency_id:

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Solutions

1. Open the wizard from a customer/vendor bill or the account.move list view ('Register Payment' action) so active_model is account.move.
2. In code, always pass with_context(active_model='account.move', active_ids=move_ids.ids) (or 'account.move.line' with line ids).
3. For custom models, don't reuse this wizard; build payment values with env['account.payment'] / account.payment.register manually after setting line_ids.

Example fix

# before
ctx = {'active_model': 'my.custom.model', 'active_ids': records.ids}
self.env['account.payment.register'].with_context(**ctx).create({})

# after
ctx = {'active_model': 'account.move', 'active_ids': move_ids.ids}
self.env['account.payment.register'].with_context(**ctx).create({})

assert self.env.context.get('active_model') in ('account.move', 'account.move.line'), \
    'register payment requires account.move or account.move.line context'
wizard = self.env['account.payment.register'].with_context(
    active_model='account.move', active_ids=move_ids.ids,
).create({})

When it happens

Trigger: Launching the wizard from an act_window/server action bound to another model (e.g. account.payment.list or a custom model), or calling self.env['account.payment.register'].with_context(active_model='other.model', active_ids=[...]).default_get([...]) in code.

Common situations: Custom modules that try to reuse the register-payment wizard from their own views; copy-pasted XML actions where the binding model was changed; RPC scripts omitting active_model entirely while passing active_ids.

Related errors

• You can't open the register payment wizard without at least
• Missing 'active_model' in context.
• You can't have two payment method lines of the same payment
• Some payment methods supposed to be unique already exists so
• Percentage must be between 0 and 100

AI-assisted analysis of odoo/odoo@1e661df964 (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b34c813a8344bea6. Report an issue: GitHub.