Electronic invoicing

A discussion and guidance on the path to full scale adoption of electronic invoicing by corporates, goverments, SME's and consumers, creating savings up to € 60 billion in 2020. With a focus on: trends, business models, processes, technology, and legal issues.

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Spain deploys seven standards for technical interoperability

Spain published seven standards as part of its National Interoperability Framework. Such standards are aimed at ‘operational interoperability among public administration authorities, and between the Spanish public authorities and its citizens. Public authorities from all levels must conform to the standards, read: they must use these standards.A b...

28 October 2011

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Dutch B2G e-invoicing adoption falls behind expectations

Late 2008 the Dutch government presented a brave and ambitious plan. At the end of 2010 at least 10% of approximately 1 million should be processed through a central e-document exchange hub, called Digipoort. In 2014 the adoption rate should be 80%. In 2017 a full 100% of 1 million B2G invoices should be received and processed. E-invoicing B2G hea...

11 October 2011

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Discussion: 7 facts and myths about PDF invoices

It is! It’s not! Yes it is! No way! You’re a nutcase! You stop this nonsense NOW! That is quite likely what you get when trying to discuss whether a PDF invoice is or is not an e-invoice. In essence it is the discussion on the current path of e-invoicing adoption, versus the goal that adoption should ultimately reach: 100% advanced data exchange b...

29 September 2011

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8 Crucial Tips to Avoid paying Fake e-invoices

Acquisition fraud costs entrepreneurs hundreds and hundreds of millions of euros per year. Acquisition fraud among other things implies that invoices sent invoices for products or services that never have and will be delivered. Acquisition fraud using fake invoices is part of the old school paper world. Therefore, as digitization and e-invoicing in...

15 September 2011

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Ladies and gentlemen, the EESPA has landed

After a gestation of six months, on Friday September 2nd, the EESPA was officially born. EESPA stands for European E-invoicing Service Providers association. Among the 13 Founding fathers are BSP's like OB10, Basware, Tieto, Certipost, Anachron, UnifiedPost and FirstBusinessPost. We hartily welcome the EESPA as another initiative for the adoption ...

13 September 2011

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Iranian hacker made 60.000 digital certificates worthless

Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have revoked the Diginotar certificates from their lists of safe certificates for browsers and applications. Shortly after, the Dutch government decided that digital certificates from the Dutch Certification Service Provider (CSP) DigiNotar could no longer be trusted. Rendering tens of thousands of digital certificate...

08 September 2011

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15 Essential E-invoicing Questions to ask Yourself

E-invoicing is hot and promising. More and more organisations want to start sending or receiving e-invoices. The amount of ROI depends on 15 questions you should ask yourself before and while e-invoicing. In this series you get the answer to these questions. Every week for the next 17 (or so) weeks a question will be answered. At the end of the s...

08 September 2011

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Norway shifts to compulsory B2G e-invoicing as from 1-7-2012

As from 1 July 2012 B2G e-invoicing becomes compulsory in Norway. The format is EHF: Elektronisk HandelsFormat. This format is a subset of subset of UBL2.0. The Norwegian Agency for Public Management and e-Government (Difi) is responsible for the roll out of the e-invoicing in Norway. Compulsory, but to whom? It is unclear to whom B2G e-invoicing ...

06 September 2011

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Dutch enterprises massively embrace electronic invoicing

More and more Dutch companies prefer sending electronic invoices, instead of the paper invoice. Last year, another 15% of the Dutch companies switched to e-invoices. Measured as the steepest growth rate in one year, e-invoicing adoption in the Netherlands soared to an impressive 39%. This became clear after analysing the responses in a survey unde...

02 September 2011

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Should the Aussies promote e-invoicing?

E-invoicing providers urged the Australian federal Government to explore the introduction of mandatory electronic invoicing to avoid a carbon tax bill of up to $24 million a year. Despite its ambition the recent draft “Strategic Vision for the Australian Government’s use of ICT” doesn’t speak of invoicing or even of e-invoicing for that matter. S...

01 September 2011