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More about paperless invoicing
Considering the nature of the transaction itself, invoices are highly important. However, in a more and more competitive and global market environment, it has become essential to minimize non productive costs and to focus on the company core business. Efficiently move to electronic invoicing thus appears as a vital requirement for your competitiveness.
Electronic invoicing is now permitted in a vast number of countries for domestic and international transactions between companies and within organizations spread over multiple sites. It must nevertheless comply with legal and fiscal requirements, namely:
- Nature of the exchange (structured, non-structured, signed electronically, etc.)
- Data conservation (legal archiving, duration)
- Integrity (security, confidentiality, non-repudiation)
- Accessibility of data in case of tax audit
Compliance with these requirements is the only way to entirely get rid of the paper.
On the way towards 100% electronic invoicing, electronic and paper flows (printing and automatic document capture) might be implemented as additional services to electronic data flows:
- Transmitting electronic data flows of invoices, in addition to paper invoices,
- Integrating invoices’ data by scanning paper invoices coming into the Document Management Systems,
- Archiving electronically sent invoices with respect of the Tax Authorities regulations.



