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.
Read MoreAfter 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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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.
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.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreCaterpillar 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.
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.
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.
Read MoreAccording 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
