Summary
According to global
European initiative all European Union (EU) countries are gradually moving
toward electronic (paperless) invoicing. Starting 18th of April 2019
electronic invoices becomes mandatory when working with public sector companies
across the EU.
This release enables
electronic invoicing in all Microsoft Dynamics
365 for Finance and Operations versions.
Although the initial requirement has been introduced for European Union
countries, in fact, the functionality is available for any supported country
without country context limitations. The only proper system’s setup enables
this functionality.
About the standard for electronic invoices
The EU directive does not force countries to use a
specific electronic format for invoicing, but only establish the basic
principles which electronic invoices should comply in general.
EU countries are free to implement their own compliant formats or modify
existing common formats.
Previously, some country-specific
formats have been already implemented for the following countries:
Denmark, Norway, Austria, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
In the scope of this functionality the following customization of the international Universal Business Language (UBL) standard from the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is additionally implemented:
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Open PEPPOL BIS (Business Interoperability Specification) Billing version 3.0
This standard can be used “as is” if no country-specific amendments supposed or can be used as the base for further modifications.
More Information
No application hotfix required for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations as since this functionality is fully configurable via Electronic reporting. Please do the following steps to enable electronic invoicing.
Electronic reporting (ER) settings
Import the following or higher version of the ER configurations from LCS library:
