Every German business must now be able to receive structured e-invoices, and sending becomes mandatory step by step through 2028. Paylists sends and receives them over Peppol, and runs the quotes, orders and projects around them.
Germany's e-invoicing rules are changing fast, and a PDF is no longer enough for B2B invoices.
Every German business must be able to receive e-invoices since 1 January 2025, and sending becomes mandatory in 2027 and 2028.
Paylists sends and receives Peppol e-invoices from day one.
A PDF is not an e-invoice. Customers' systems can reject invoices that don't meet the standard.
Every invoice is validated against EN 16931 before it leaves.
Access points, identifiers and formats are a technical project for most small businesses.
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Since 1 January 2025, every German B2B business must be able to receive structured electronic invoices (E-Rechnungen). From 2027, larger companies must send them too, and from 2028 the obligation extends to all businesses.
An E-Rechnung is not a PDF. It is structured data following the European EN 16931 standard. Paylists issues invoices in Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 and delivers them over Peppol, or by email where needed.
Every German business, including SMEs, must be able to receive structured e-invoices.
PDF and paper invoices still allowed for issuing, with the buyer's consent.
Larger and mid-sized companies must issue E-Rechnungen.
Every German business must issue structured e-invoices to other businesses.
E-invoicing is one step. Paylists also runs the quote before it and the payment after it, with Lister to do the typing.
Invoices and credit notes in both directions, validated before they go.
Quotes, sales orders, purchase orders and projects from one sentence.
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Paylists issues EN 16931 / Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 invoices and validates each one before sending, subject to onboarding, verification and correct invoice data. It does not replace advice from your accountant.
Paylists sends the same invoice by email with a PDF.
The Paylists app works in English, French and German, set per user. For Germany: German and English.
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