Compliant the moment you print, in every country you trade in

Europe: one engine, every timetable

The EU adopted the VAT in the Digital Age package in March 2025. Intra-EU B2B e-invoicing becomes mandatory in July 2030 and domestic regimes must harmonise by January 2035 - but the practical deadlines are already here, and each member state is arriving at its own pace and in its own format. SumPOS generates structured invoices to the EN 16931 European standard and routes them through the network or portal each country requires.

• EN 16931 semantic standard with UBL 2.1 and CII syntaxes
• Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 delivery through the Peppol network
• Germany - XRechnung and ZUGFeRD / Factur-X hybrid PDFs, receivable since January 2025
• France - Factur-X, UBL and CII routed via a Plateforme de Dématérialisation Partenaire
• Italy - FatturaPA through the Sistema di Interscambio
• Poland - FA(3) XML through KSeF, including the clearance round trip
• Spain - B2B structured invoicing and Verifactu-compatible register entries
• Belgium, Netherlands, Nordics and Ireland - Peppol-native

Dates worth having in your diary

These are the mandates our customers are planning around at the time of writing. They move, so we track them and we tell you when yours is approaching rather than waiting for you to find out.

• Belgium - B2B e-invoicing via Peppol from 1 January 2026
• Poland - KSeF from 1 February 2026 for large taxpayers, 1 April 2026 for everyone else
• France - receiving for all businesses and issuing for large and mid-sized companies from 1 September 2026
• Spain - B2B for companies above €8m turnover during 2026; Verifactu for corporations in January 2027
• Germany - receipt of structured e-invoices mandatory since 1 January 2025, with issuing obligations phasing in
• EU-wide - intra-community B2B under ViDA from 1 July 2030

The United Kingdom and the United States

Neither market has a single e-invoicing mandate, so the compliance work is different in shape. In the UK that means digital record-keeping and VAT filing under Making Tax Digital. In the US it means sales tax across thousands of overlapping jurisdictions, and payment security under PCI DSS.

• UK - Making Tax Digital compatible VAT records, digital links and return workings
• UK - Peppol-ready for public sector and voluntary B2B e-invoicing
• US - destination-based sales tax by jurisdiction, with economic nexus tracking by state
• US - product taxability categories, exemption certificates and tax holidays
• US - filing-ready liability reports per state and per filing period
• PCI DSS 4.0.1 aligned architecture: card data never lands in SumPOS, only a tokenised reference

A queue, not a blocked till

Clearance models mean asking a government server for permission before an invoice is valid. That is fine at nine in the morning and a disaster at seven on a Friday evening. SumPOS records the sale locally, holds it in a signed, inspectable queue and transmits the moment the service answers - so an outage at the tax authority never becomes an outage at your counter.

• Local-first issuance with an automatic retry and back-off queue
• Queue depth visible to managers and to head office
• Reconciliation report of recorded versus transmitted invoices for any period
• Alerting when a register falls behind a threshold you set
• Full transmission audit log, exportable for an inspection

And the rest of the world

The same engine covers markets outside Europe and North America, which matters if you expand or franchise abroad. Saudi Arabia's ZATCA Phase 2 clearance and reporting, and Pakistan's FBR digital invoicing with its provincial authorities, are both supported today, with further jurisdictions added on customer demand.

• Saudi Arabia - ZATCA Phase 2, UBL 2.1 with cryptographic stamping and TLV QR
• Pakistan - FBR digital invoicing plus SRB, PRA, KPRA and BRA
• Arabic and other right-to-left invoice layouts
• New jurisdictions prioritised by where our customers actually trade