Electronic invoicing
One standard, five national shapes, one invoice form.
EN 16931 is the common core; what each country makes of it differs. KRONENWERK fills in the same form and lets the country module decide which file comes out of it — and whether it may come out at all.
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Which format, decided by the transaction
A German business invoicing a public authority gets XRechnung; the same business gets ZUGFeRD for a commercial customer. In France it is Factur-X or plain CII, in Belgium Peppol UBL. Nobody has to pick a format they have never heard of.
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Validated before the file exists
National rules the standard does not express run before generation: an invoice that cannot be lawful becomes an explanation of what is missing rather than a file. Anything a format's writer cannot carry is reported first as well — instead of being silently dropped.
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Reading and checking the invoices that arrive
An incoming file says what it is for itself: hybrid PDF, CII or UBL — not its extension and not the recipient's assumption. Each shape gets its own rule set, and the yardstick is the one binding the recipient rather than the stricter profile imposed on their supplier.
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Out of the books, not beside them
The e-invoice comes out of the same document that gets posted — not out of a second tool kept alongside. Recurring invoices, reminders, payments and reports all sit on the same data.
The limit
Generating and validating is not transmitting.
- KRONENWERK does not transmit any invoice to a government portal, a clearance system or a network. Germany: no transmission, you file the XRechnung. Belgium and France: the file is produced here, sending runs through your access point or accredited platform. Poland: no KSeF connection.
- A country module declares national delivery only where a transport is genuinely configured for this installation and legally effective. What your country can do today is on its own page — and is shown again before you buy.
- There is no e-invoicing mandate in Canada or the United States, so none of these formats appears there. The machinery exists; a North American seller still never sees it.
Asked and answered
The questions that come before the decision.
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What is an electronic invoice?
An invoice in a structured, machine-readable format — not a PDF that is a picture of an invoice. The European reference point is EN 16931; ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, XRechnung and Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 are shapes of it.
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Which formats does KRONENWERK produce?
ZUGFeRD (EN 16931) and XRechnung 3.0.2 for Germany, Factur-X and plain CII for France, Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 as UBL for Belgium, the national FA(3) structure for Poland. In Canada and the United States: a PDF, because nothing else is required there.
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Does KRONENWERK send the invoice to the authorities?
No — in none of the six countries. It produces and validates the file; the route to the recipient or the administration runs through your platform, your access point, or your own submission.
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Which plan includes electronic invoicing?
Every plan, including the cheapest. A country's obligations do not depend on how much somebody pays; taking them out of the entry plan would mean selling them to the person least able to avoid them.
The other countries
Six countries, six different answers.
What KRONENWERK can do follows from the country module, not from marketing copy. Each of these pages says the same thing twice for its country: what is there, and what is not.
Open an account.
Before you buy, KRONENWERK shows once more what is covered for your country and what is not — at the same place where money is discussed.