Prepare your finance workflow for electronic invoicing
Understand the changing requirements, keep certified exchange and tax decisions in the right systems, and explore Arthur & Co's planned invoice-review direction. No country-specific e-invoicing workflow is live today.
Electronic invoicing changes how businesses receive, issue, validate, exchange, and retain invoices. The legal timetable and approved exchange model differ by country, while finance teams still need a practical way to investigate exceptions. Arthur & Co does not currently provide a certified exchange platform or a live country-rule validation workflow. This page separates current legal context from the product roadmap.
Requirements differ by country and company size
Formats, exchange channels, reporting duties, and transition dates vary. Confirm the rules that apply to your entity with the relevant tax authority or adviser.
Transition periods create mixed inputs
Finance teams may receive structured invoices alongside PDFs and other supporting documents while suppliers and systems move at different speeds.
Exchange-platform errors still need investigation
A certified platform may reject or flag an invoice, but a finance owner still needs to understand the issue, contact the supplier, and decide the next step.
Lean teams need clear ownership
Tax compliance, invoice approval, exception review, and supplier reconciliation are related but distinct responsibilities. One tool should not be presented as replacing all four.
Live supplier statement reconciliation
Hope
Hope currently compares supplier statements with a ledger export after transactions have entered your records. It does not receive, validate, route, or certify electronic invoices.
Evidence-backed statement exceptions
Planned supplier invoice review
Victor
Victor is in development as a pre-payment invoice-checking workflow. Country-specific e-invoicing validation, certified exchange, and accounting-system routing are not live capabilities.
Planned human-reviewed exception pack
Live evidence and checklist review
Vera
Vera can compare a supplied checklist with uploaded evidence. It does not determine which tax rules apply, certify an invoice format, or provide country-specific legal conclusions.
Checklist coverage for human review
Product status
Country workflow not live
Certified exchange
External platform required
Current adjacent workflow
Statement reconciliation
Decision owner
Finance + tax adviser
- 1Confirm the rules, dates, and approved exchange model that apply to your entity
- 2Use your certified exchange, billing, ERP, or accounting provider for issuance and receipt
- 3Keep tax validation and statutory reporting with qualified systems and advisers
- 4Use live Arthur & Co workflows only for their documented scope, such as supplier statement reconciliation or evidence-checklist review
- 5Treat invoice-specific checks, routing, and audit logging as planned capabilities until Arthur & Co announces their availability
- France readiness — All businesses must be able to receive electronic invoices from 1 September 2026; issuance phases by company size through 1 September 2027. Confirm your obligations with the French tax authority.
- Germany B2B readiness — Domestic businesses have needed to support receipt of structured e-invoices since 1 January 2025, with transition rules for issuance. Confirm the applicable exception and timetable.
- Mixed-format operations — Define how finance will handle structured invoices, PDFs, and supporting documents during supplier transitions.
- Exception ownership — Decide who investigates platform rejections, requests corrected invoices, and records the outcome.
- Evidence review — Maintain documented proof of your process and have a qualified reviewer assess whether it meets the applicable rules.
Is Arthur & Co a certified e-invoicing exchange platform?
No. Arthur & Co is not a French approved platform or another country's certified invoice exchange. Use an approved provider where the applicable rules require one.
Do I still need a certified or approved platform?
Where local law requires an approved exchange channel, yes. Arthur & Co does not replace that channel, your billing or ERP system, statutory reporting, or qualified tax advice.
Which structured invoice formats does Arthur & Co validate?
No country-specific structured-invoice validation capability is currently listed as live. Do not rely on Arthur & Co to certify Factur-X, UBL, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, FatturaPA, or another statutory format.
When will invoice-specific compliance workflows be available?
They remain on the roadmap. Hope's supplier statement reconciliation and Vera's evidence-checklist workflow are live, but neither is an electronic-invoicing compliance service.
Who is this page for?
Finance and operations leads who need to separate legal obligations, certified exchange, invoice review, and supplier reconciliation before choosing systems or workflows.
Does Arthur & Co generate or route outbound electronic invoices?
No live Arthur & Co workflow currently generates, exchanges, or routes statutory electronic invoices. Keep issuance and transmission in your billing, ERP, accounting, and approved exchange systems.
Separate today's e-invoicing obligations from planned product capabilities
Review platform plans for Arthur & Co's current workflows and future back-office direction. Confirm statutory requirements with your tax authority or adviser.
Arthur & Co does not currently provide certified electronic-invoice exchange, country-specific format certification, statutory reporting, or tax advice. Requirements change and vary by entity. Confirm current obligations with the relevant tax authority and a qualified adviser.