EU and national e-invoicing requirements - any solutions for thirtybees (Factur-X / ZUGFeRD)?

[30knees]

Is anybody here required to supply EU-compliant e-invoices, such as the faktur-x / ZUGFeRD standard?

For example, in Germany they're obligatory in a B2B setting from January 1, 2025. Many European countries already have e-invoicing requirements when dealing with public authorities.

I found one PHP library for factur-x: https://github.com/atgp/factur-x

 

Edited November 1 by 30knees

[datakick]

That library is just a tool to embed xml into pdf files, and then read them back. It performs xml validation to ensure that it matches factur-x xml schema, but that's all.

In order to use this, you still need to generate xml file with data first. Then you can use this library to embed the data into pdf generated by thirtybees

[30knees]

Thank you.

So then we'd need something a library to convert PHP objects (is this what we have in tb?) to XML:

• https://github.com/easybill/zugferd-php
• https://www.mustangproject.org/zugferd/
• https://github.com/horstoeko/zugferd
• Wrapper: https://github.com/Youniwemi/digital-invoice
• Overview of some libraries and tools: https://zugferd.org/materials/e-invoicing/1.0.0/index.html

 

[led24ee]

In Estonia next year must be also.

[30knees]

Would you need a solution in tb or an external one?

[DRMasterChief]

We need an external solution because we use an inventory management system. A large provider that doesn't yet have a perfect solution... it's really not a good situation, but we can probably still use the legal transition period.