Erin 💽✨Electronc invoicing is like the most boring topic in the world and yet the amount of human toil that is going to be saved by governments mandating it is incredible
it’s incredible that in 2026 the vast majority of invoices are handled by hand typing or at best OCRing fucking PDFs and when things get complicated (e.g. payment and VAT in different currencies! very common in cross border scenarios!) this gets imeasurably more miserable because your software can’t find the exchange rate field or wants the exchange rate in the inverse form from their invoice gives you or inumerable other corner cases
My business has received it’s first two electronic invoices and you cannot believe how unreasonably ecstatic I am at this fact
You also cannot imagine how eager I am for the supplier who charge on a usage basis and hence have had to hand-enter the amount every month to get themselves on the e-invoicing bandwagon
Jernej Simončič �@erincandescent You mean electronic invoices in the form of XML with a digital signature? These have been mandatory in Slovenia for invoicing public institutions for years, and are supported by pretty much every business (looking at my e-mail, the oldest eInvoice from my ISP is from 2012).
@jernej__s yes. they’ve been mandatory in germany for invoicing government for a while but most businesses are not yet sending them (by default, at least)
will-h@erincandescent @jernej__s it's also becoming mandatory in Poland this spring, FWIW