Factur-X is a Franco-German e-invoicing standard which complies with the European e-invoicing standard EN 16931. The Factur-X specifications are available on the FNFE-MPE website in English and French.
The Factur-X standard is also called ZUGFeRD 2.2 in Germany.
Order-X is the equivalent of Factur-X for purchase orders. The Order-X specifications are available in English on the FNFE-MPE website and on the FeRD website.
Factur-X and ZUGFeRD .pdf files validity can be checked at:
ohttps://services.fnfe-mpe.org/account/home (french Factur-X only)
ohttps://www.zugferd-community.net/de/login (Factur-X and ZUGFeRD)
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Factur-X is a Franco-German standard for hybrid e-invoice (PDF for users and XML data for process automation), the first implementation of the European Semantic Standard EN 16931 published by the European Commission on October 16th 2017. Factur-X is the same standard than ZUGFeRD 2.2.
Factur-X is at the same time a full readable invoice in a PDF A/3 format, containing all information useful for its treatment, especially in case of discrepancy or absence of automatic matching with orders and / or receptions, and a set of invoice data presented in an XML structured file conformant to EN16931 (syntax CII D16B), complete or not, allowing invoice process automation.
The first objective of Factur-X is to enable suppliers, invoice issuers, to create added-value e-invoices, containing a maximum of information in structured form, according to their ability to produce them in this form, and to let customers recipients free to use the invoice data and / or the readable presentation, depending on their needs and their invoice process maturity on automation.
vpxPrint setup
vpxPrint allows you to create Factur-X files in three different ways:
oNatively, with PDF from vpxPrint (no specific installation required).
oWith Python and Alexis Delattre's plugin,
oWith Java (openJRE) and Mustang plugin,
The setup has been enhanced to allow installation of Python, Java OpenJDK and their corresponding Factur-X plugins.
There is no need to check the option for native FX/ZF .pdf plugin.
Used to check the XML validity.
Licenses
Java OpenJDK https://openjdk.org/legal/
Python: https://docs.python.org/3/license.html
Factur-X https://github.com/akretion/factur-x
Mustang Permissive license (APL2, free for use in commercial and noncommercial applications)