[GNC] e-invoicing ?

[John Ralls]

There’s creation of e-Invoice files that GnuCash might be able to do if someone can find the specification somewhere. I spent an hour looking and found lots of pages touting the benefits and outlining the e-Invoicing process but nothing about what the file/datastream is supposed to contain. There’s also no loose developer time to work on this. Geert Janssens, the Belgian that Liz alluded to, hasn’t had time to contribute more than the occasional bug-fix for a few years. His business outgrew GnuCash quite a while ago.

Peppol is at this time not possible. I found a project, “Peppol for the masses” (https://nlnet.nl/project/Peppol-Decentralised/) that might someday enable FLOSS projects to access it.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Mar 5, 2025, at 01:03, Pascal Standaert <pascalstandaert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> dunno about Australia, but Belgium mandates it for all B2B invoicing from 01/01/2026 ...
> that is sure ...
> 
> https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=881983566
> 
> "On 1 February 2024, the Belgian parliament approved the law implementing mandatory domestic B2B eInvoicing in Belgium as from 1 January 2026"
> 
> I hope we hear from your developer in Belgium very soon ...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/03/2025 09:54, Liz wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 09:34:28 +0100
>> Pascal Standaert <pascalstandaert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm looking into switching to Gnucash for my accounting, but I have
>>> some worries about the mandatory e-invoicing which is being rolled
>>> out over Europe ...
>>> 
>>> https://www.storecove.com/blog/en/peppol-countries/
>>> 
>>> https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/display/DIGITAL/Obtaining+a+copy+of+the+European+standard+on+eInvoicing
>>> 
>>> ... wil Gnucash be able to do this UBL format xml for e-invoicing ?
>>> 
>>> if not, it would be shear useless to try set it up ... because here
>>> in Belgium this e-invoicing (peppol) wil be mandatory from january
>>> 1st 2026 ...
>> Storecove says PEPPOL is in use in Australia. I've never heard of it,
>> and am certainly not using it to invoice anyone.
>> 
>> The ATO tells me that Australia has adopted it as a framework. The
>> storecove link tells me its mandatory, and I know that it isn't.
>> https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/einvoicing/what-is-einvoicing
>> 
>> Point? Storecove is not correct there, so are they correct elsewhere?
>> 
>> For your concern, one of our developers is resident in Belgium and will
>> be aware of these hurdles to use of Gnucash.
>> 
>> Liz
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