Solution for Software Developers Unveiled: TRAFFIQX Invoice API: Mandatory eInvoicing is no longer a challenge for software developers

This component makes it possible to integrate eInvoicing functions into various software applications, even if they are not explicitly designed for eInvoicing. For the manufacturers of these applications, this means significant savings in programming and administrative effort. Their customers benefit from the seamless integration of all invoice-related transactions into their familiar software environment.

The TRAFFIQX solution is likely to prove particularly valuable in light of the future digital reporting system for sales tax data. This is because senders and receivers of eInvoicing will then have to ensure that all tax-relevant data is also transmitted to the tax authorities.

“One-size-fits-all” interface for electronic invoice exchange relieves pressure on software manufacturers

Many small and medium-sized enterprises use various software solutions—such as ERP, inventory management, dealer management, or tradesman systems—for creating and processing invoices and other document types. These systems are fundamentally well-suited in their functionality to the requirements of the respective organizational structure and industry. This includes the generation of invoices and credit notes with all industry-specific details. What is often neglected, however, are the receivers’ requirements as well as the design of the subsequent exchange after the documents are created—especially in light of the upcoming e-invoicing mandate starting in early 2025.

“Integrating eInvoicing functions into existing systems is complex due to the variety of data formats, transmission channels, legal requirements, and digital platforms,” explains Uwe Gibis, an interoperability expert at TRAFFIQX. “Many of the existing programs offer only limited interoperability, which can lead to difficulties when software users need to implement the new requirements.” With the connection to the TRAFFIQX network, the exchange of eInvoices—even outside of established email channels, such as via the pan-European Peppol network or other eInvoicing platforms—no longer poses a hurdle.

To facilitate this implementation from a technical standpoint, TRAFFIQX is now introducing a dedicated API for the cost- and resource-efficient integration of legally required eInvoicing functionality. With the new TRAFFIQX Invoice API, Germany’s largest e-invoicing network offers an interface that enables manufacturers of industry-specific and specialized software to meet legal requirements with a fraction of the usual development and maintenance effort. It is particularly cost-effective, implemented in the shortest possible time, and absolutely future-proof.

This allows software manufacturers to focus on their respective core competencies. The complex provision of the required e-invoice formats and the conversion into the necessary data formats for downstream processing in the connected industry, ERP, or administrative software is handled by established TRAFFIQX network operators such as Datev eG, Bundesdruckerei, Quadient, SGH, Ricoh, and b4value.net. This also includes the ongoing assurance of international e-invoicing compliance and interoperability.

See the Invoice API for yourself: www.traffiqx.net/tia