Ground breaking! New Spanish law FORBIDS forced B2C e-billing

Ground breaking! New Spanish law FORBIDS forced B2C e-billing

July 8, 2014  |  Adoption, Electronic Invoicing, Europe, Featured Articles, Legal  |  Comments Off

On 13 June 2014 new Spanish legislation came into force. Under the Act, the paper should be the default option for all consumers’ bills. Switching to e-billing requires express consent. Any consumer freely revoke its consent and re-receive paper bills. And companies can’t charge for paper bills. To activate this legislation a nation wide new initiative was launched, called ‘Yo Decido Como Recibo’: I decide how I receive. All in all, ground breaking.

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Costa Rican mandatory e-invoicing project restarts from scratch after failing pilot

After five years of trial and error tomandate the use of electronic invoicing in Costa Rica, the e-invoicing project will start again from scratch. The pilot project implemented by the Directorate General of Taxation in 2013 will cease to be effective as of now, as will the software and systems that were purchased for its deployment last year. It is expected that the new infrastructure will be ready by the end of 2014. Read the lessons learned.

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Can paper billing still be more cost effective than e-invoicing? Yes it can!

Can paper billing still be more cost effective than e-invoicing? Yes it can!

A Danish Energy provider decided to test with a population of new customers whether switching to paper invoices would improve the speed of payment. It also wanted to know whether digital invoices were cheaper than physical mail in regard to overall operational costs.
Shockingly it found out that sending invoices via e-mail actually increased their overall costs: it cost the company $3.25 per customer to get paid by paper invoice and $5.75 per customer billed by e-mail.

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EESPA members processed 840 million 'non PDF' EU e-invoices in 2013

EESPA members processed 840 million ‘non PDF’ EU e-invoices in 2013

June 30, 2014  |  Adoption, Electronic Invoicing, Europe, Featured Articles  |  Comments Off

EESPA commissioned its first annual survey among its members as part of a continuing commitment to supporting the rapid market growth of e-invoicing and to play its part in monitoring take-up. The survey was carried out through a trusted third party on the basis of actual transaction volumes, collected on a confidential basis from individual EESPA members for the calendar years 2012 and 2013. In 2013 the total volume of non PDF e-invoices rose to over 840 million in 2014.

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Macedonian phone operator starts elegant e-billing adoption campaign

June 24, 2014  |  Adoption, Electronic Invoicing, Europe  |  Comments Off

To convince its postpaid customers to change their paper bills to e-bills, Macedonian operator Vip Operator has launched an elegant adoption campaign. The adoption campaign is part of larger strategy for the promotion of socially responsible practices.

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Caterpillar extends Tungsten e-invoicing commitment to Poland and the UK

June 24, 2014  |  Adoption, Electronic Invoicing, Europe  |  Comments Off

Caterpillar is one of the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.
Caterpillar is already a customer of Tungsten (as you know by now: the global e-Invoicing network built on OB10). It has now extended its contract to let Tungsten provide an e-Invoicing programme to its suppliers across the UK and Poland.

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Warner Music cuts invoicing costs with Ariba procure to pay

June 20, 2014  |  Adoption, E-procurement, Invoice Automation, North America  |  Comments Off

Warner Music Group has mobilised and digitised its procure-to-pay systems to cut invoicing costs and make its procurement processes more efficient.
ScanOne, an application that comes with Ariba, digitised Warner Music’s 20,000 per year invoices which are now scanned after arriving in the post or email and flowed straight into the PTP system. This centralised invoices for better visibility and reduced paper costs.

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Woodie’s selects Atlas Fusion e-Invoicing Service

June 20, 2014  |  Adoption, Electronic Invoicing, Europe  |  Comments Off

After a trial of full electronic data interchange (EDI) with 27 suppliers in the last 12 months, Woodie’s has selected the Atlas Fusion e-Invoicing Platform and Service to complete their electronic supply chain management with the rest of their suppliers in the next six months. The Atlas e-invoicing solution will process more than 150,000 invoices and order transactions every year.

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Spanish adoption campaign to prepare for mandatory B2G e-invoicing

June 13, 2014  |  Adoption, Compliance, Electronic Invoicing, Europe, Government  |  Comments Off

According to the Spanish government, the move will enhance security, streamline the invoicing process and result in savings of around EUR 3.48 per invoice issued, EUR 2.78 of which corresponds to the administration and EUR 0.70 to the issuing entity. In total, some EUR 52.5 million a year will be saved, while the time taken to process invoices will be reduced by around 80 percent.

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Anachron signs Belgian ESP initiative for an e-invoicing interoperability charter

June 13, 2014  |  Adoption, Electronic Invoicing, Interoperability  |  Comments Off

In Belgium there is such a thing as the ESP (E-invoicing Service Providers) Protocol. It is the result of three recently signed protocols to promote the current adoption of 20% to new levels. Similar to France.
In the ESP protocol, the ESPs and the Belgian Business Software Providers (BBSPs) agree to produce a standard for data exchange that will allow them to exchange electronic invoices more smoothly.

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