GXS Achieves GS1 UK Accreditation

May 3, 2013  |  Standards  |  Comments Off

GXS announced to have received GS1 UK accreditation as an eCom (EDI) and GDS solution provider. GS1 UK accreditation is offered in one of four standards and validates the accredited organisation’s knowledge and understanding of GS1 standards.
Many companies are now requiring certification as part of their B2B provider selection process, making the GS1 UK accreditation increasingly important” said Jon Keating, vice president of EMEA at GXS. “The accreditation certifies our products incorporate the GS1 standards, which we believe offers our customers even more confidence when selecting GXS.

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Dutch service providers start roaming initiative: simplerinvoicing

May 1, 2013  |  Electronic Invoicing, Standards  |  Comments Off

14 of 85 Dutch e-invoicing and accounting software providers launched SimplerInvoicing. It is set out to become a network of cooperating service providers. SimplerInvoicing aims to enhance the invoicing process of senders and receivers of e-invoices to establish large scale adoption. This means that e-invoicing is set to become generic for consumers, small/medium/large businesses and governments.

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Mexico is aiming for total electronic invoicing in 2014

April 29, 2013  |  Electronic Invoicing, Government, Latin America, Standards  |  Comments Off

Mexico is making two major changes this year to aim for total e-invoicing. The first one is termination of the CFD model and making CFDI adoption mandatory. This means that suppliers will no longer be able to create their own electronic invoices but will have to work with a service provider. The other one is reducing the minimum annual income level required for companies to comply with the Mexiacan e-Invoicing mandate is USD 150,000.

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Mexico is aiming for total electronic invoicing in 2014

April 29, 2013  |  Electronic Invoicing, Government, Latin America, Standards  |  Comments Off

Mexico is making two major changes this year to aim for total e-invoicing. The first one is termination of the CFD model and making CFDI adoption mandatory. This means that suppliers will no longer be able to create their own electronic invoices but will have to work with a service provider. The other one is reducing the minimum annual income level required for companies to comply with the Mexiacan e-Invoicing mandate is USD 150,000.

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OB10 supports ZUGFeRD e-Invoice standard for greater adoption among German SMEs

March 26, 2013  |  Electronic Invoicing, Europe, Standards  |  Comments Off

ZUGFeRD has been developed by BMWi, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, and BITKOM, the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media, and includes input from OB10. Using ZUGFeRD, OB10 is able to provide e-invoicing adoption to a growing number of German SMEs willing to start with e-invoicing and invoice automation.

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From one-on-one, via one-to-many into the many-to-many era

February 7, 2013  |  Electronic Invoicing, Standards  |  Comments Off

On the company’s weblog Christian Hjorth, Chief Commercial Officer at Tradeshift, posted an insightful article called “The Platform Era is upon us”. Christian explains in his article how the e-invoicing environment has changed in three phases in the last decade.

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UPDATE: Forum elektronische Rechnung Deutschland (FeRD) presents new PDF A/3-XML data model at CeBIT!

February 6, 2013  |  Electronic Invoicing, Europe, Standards  |  2 Comments

The ZUGFeRD standard describes a document and data format for the exchange of electronic invoices. In its basis it is a hybrid approach, in which a visual representation is based on a PDF/A-3 document, while all the billing data file is embedded in the document in XML format.

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AENOR awards EDICOM with ISO/IEC 20000:2011 standard certificate

November 28, 2012  |  Electronic Invoicing, Standards  |  Comments Off

For a greater peace of mind for their customers and users, EDICOM annually submits itself to several external audits. And after a recent audit sponsored and supervised by AENOR (Spanish Standardisation and Certification Association) EDICOM has obtained the ISO/IEC 20000:2011 standard certificate. Good going, EDICOM.

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Great idea: embed structured invoice data into a PDF envelope

November 1, 2012  |  Adoption, Electronic Invoicing, Featured Articles, Standards  |  Comments Off

Feelings run high whenever we write something about PDF invoices. Guess we’ll never come to an agreement on the subject, or will we..? Bruno Koch pointed out to us in his EXPP Summit E-invoicing Newsletter that there are plans to embed structured invoice data (UN/CEFACT CII) into a PDF envelope. Is this the answer to all our problems?

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Give the EC your view on e-invoicing in public procurement!

October 29, 2012  |  Electronic Invoicing, Europe, Featured Articles, Government, Standards  |  Comments Off

Some of the EU member states have made e-invoicing mandatory for business-to-government (B2G) transactions, which has led to several separate national e-invoicing systems. The result: fragmentation of the internal market. The EC is trying to figure how to overcome the barriers of e-invoicing in public procurement. You’ve guessed it: a consultation.

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