Central Bank statistics in Finland reveal continued growth in both e-banking contracts and its use for e-invoicing
Consumers signed up:
2015: 6,230 million (entire population is 5,5 - so many are paying for service in more than one bank). 4,0 million use e-invoicing.
2016: 6,427m - out of which 4,1m use e-invoicing.
2017: 6,410m - out of which 4,3m use e-invoicing.
2018: 6.044 e-banking contracts using e-invoicing (lowering trend due to fewer customers paying for the e-banking service to several banks
2019: 5.900 e-banking contracts - all using e-invoicing for almost all invoices (and soon e-receipts as well..)
Contracts for sending/receiving e-invoices:
Banks have signed up in practice ALL active enterprise customers for sending and receiving e-invoices.
2014: 207k enterprises sending/234k receiving (this does not include non-bank e-invoicing operators..)
2015: 254k sending, 236k receiving
2016: 263/248
2017: 235/261
2018: 247/274 (a handful left.. - if not handled by non-bank operators)
2019: 250/280? - should be 100% when including figures also from non-bank operators
The e-invoicing volumes (including the non-bank operators is estimated by the Central Bank to:
Number of structured e-invoices acquired (PDFs not included)/number delivered in structured form (not printed or e-mailed)
2014: 190 million sent/130 million received
2015: 220/160 million
2016: 300/190m
2017: 318/215m (slow year..)
2018: 320/244 (not yet 100pct)
2019: 400/300? There will strong pressure to migrate as only e-invoices and e-receipts will be allowed in a near future.
The total number of invoices is estimated to around 550m/year. The e-receipt potential is 1,4 billion. The really hot issue is to start utilizing the very rich big data collected from some 20 billion rows in e-invoices and e-receipts - EU level some 1400
billion times X dataelements in addition to total sum and VAT needed for automated accounting.... Collected via real time VAT-reporting and put at the disposal of enterprises. Huge equalizeer for Europe's 20 million SMEs..