CIS/4-Cloud - E-Invoicing
Digitise invoices, save time, maximise success
The Growth Opportunities Act, passed on 22 March 2024, will gradually oblige all German companies operating in the B2B sector to receive, process and provide e-invoices from January 2025. Our CIS/4-Cloud - E-Invoicing offers SMEs in particular the opportunity to handle all invoice processes securely and cost-effectively via an AI-supported integration platform. CIS/4-Cloud is an ultra-modern, cloud-based product family for handling business-critical processes such as invoicing processes confidently and professionally despite all national peculiarities and despite a confusingly large variety of formats and communication procedures.
E-bill thought through down to the last detail
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Advantages of CIS/4 Cloud e-invoicing
360° view of your incoming and outgoing invoices
Saving resources
Quick and easy access to CIS/4 Cloud
Cost-effective
Maximum flexibility
Expandable
Future-proof
The legal Overview of legal obligations
With CONCETO's CIS/4-Cloud - E-Invoicing you are future-proof at all times
E-invoicing for small businesses in just 3 simple steps
- You provide us with your outgoing invoices, e.g. by e-mail as a PDF. Of course, we also process all incoming invoices professionally and cost-effectively!
- Invoice data is processed by our AI-supported AI-Extractor automatically extracted from your PDF invoices. You don't use PDFs for your invoices? No problem, because as experts we can also process any other format. They are then converted into an e-invoice format (ZUGFeRD or XRechnung) of your choice and sent to your business partner, e.g. by email. The same applies to incoming e-invoices: we provide these to you in any format you require (e.g. PDF, IDoc, in-house).
- Always up-to-date: With Business Monitoring, you have a 360° view of your incoming and outgoing invoices at any time and from any location.
With CIS/4-Cloud - E-Invoicing, you can manage the e-invoicing obligation effortlessly and cost-effectively.
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Our experts will be happy to answer any questions you may have on the subject of E-bill
Frequently asked questions about e-billing
In contrast to paper or PDF invoices, an e-invoice presents the invoice content in a structured, machine-readable data record. Only formats that comply with CEN standard EN16931 are recognised as e-invoices. In Germany, the XML syntaxes of the so-called. XInvoice (in the form Cross Industry Invoice (CII) and Universal Business Language (UBL)) and the hybrid data format ZUGFeRD (from version 2.0) of this standard, whereby ZUGFeRD embeds CII-XML in a PDF/A-3. According to a supplementary regulation issued by the Federal Ministry of Finance in November 2024, other formats (such as EDIFACT) are still permitted, provided they are interoperable with the requirements of the EN16931 standard. Additional information can be found under the FAQ item "What impact does the Growth Opportunities Act have on the exchange of invoices in EDIFACT format?".
With our CIS/4 Cloud e-invoicing solution, all you need is Internet access and a browser. Tedious installations or additional tools are a thing of the past.
There are no special regulations for the transmission channel of an e-invoice. CIS/4 Cloud - E-Invoicing provides you with more than 40 different transmission channels for exchanging invoices with your partners.
With the Letter dated 15 October 2024 the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) has clarified that the electronic exchange of invoice data on the basis of EDIFACT (message type INVOIC) will continue to be used. is permitted for an unrestricted period of time and unchanged (see paragraph 33 of the letter with reference to the compatibility with Section 14 (1) sentence 6 no. 2 UStG). The BMF letter emphasises that the EDIFACT format often agreed between trading partners allows the correct and complete extraction of the information required under the UStG into an EN-16931-compliant format and is therefore compatible ('interoperable') with it. This means that there is no need for you to take any action as of 1 January 2025 if you wish to continue exchanging invoices with your partners in EDIFACT format.
By the way: With our services CIS/4-Cloud - EDI and CIS/4-Cloud - E-Invoicing, we offer you two professional solutions with which you are confidently positioned when it comes to XRechnungen, ZUGFeRD, AI-based invoice processing and EDI. Gain the security of being able to cope with the complexity and constant changes in technical and legal requirements in the future.
An overview of all legal requirements and transitional regulations can be found here.
Peppol ("Pan-European Public Procurement OnLine") is a transmission channel that enables cross-border procurement processes to be handled easily, electronically, standardised and automated. It is the central platform for B2G data exchange. Peppol is one of many transmission channels that are available to you with our CIS/4 Cloud - E-Invoicing.
As part of its VIDA draft, the EU Commission has also made proposals on digital reporting obligations and e-invoices. A key component of a future cross-border reporting system is the standardised e-invoice, which is to be transmitted to the tax authorities from 2028.
