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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreFeelings 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?
Read MoreSome 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.
Read MoreHere we take the risk of offending some of you. But honestly, anyone who says that “PDFs and images don’t permit automated processing” has either been living under a rock for the last ten years (and shows to remain to do so) and/or acts a stakeholder in favour of structured e-invoices.
Read MoreUN/CEFACT has validated a revision of Recommendation 14. It was originally drafted in 1979 and is in serious need of updating. Lance Thompson has been confirmed as chair for coordination of this revision work. Any experts in the field, who are interested in participating, please contact him a message via LinkedIn with your contact details.
Read MoreThe new Scan & Capture service from Certipost offers you a simple way of converting these invoices into digital invoice data. Curious about the benefits for your company? Ask for a free no-obligation appointment or a 2-days analysis including a cost/benefit analysis at a 50% discount.
Read MoreThere are two obstacles to companies that want to exchange data with customers, suppliers or other business relationships: connecting and data integration. To take the hassle out of that, Liaison has announced a broad range of cloud services and on-premises applications within its Data Aware Cloud Services Brokerage Platform.
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