You can send and receive invoices electronically via the eInvoicing portal, and manage your data and settings for e-bill yourself. New e-bill customers can register for the service directly online.

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E-bill light is ideal if you only send a few invoices each year and do not have your own software. Registration and invoice recording are done online.

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Benefits for invoice issuers:

• Shorter payment deadlines, quicker receipt of payments
• Cost savings (low shipping costs, straightforward payment collection)
• Less paper used
• High-quality data (no ISR enquiries)
• Better payment behaviour on the part of the invoice recipients, which in turn saves time and money on reminder processes
• A growing customer need is met

Benefits for invoice recipients:

• No need to manually enter invoice information
• All invoices are available in electronic format at all times
• Automated invoice processing
• Payment transactions via existing processes
• Easy to track actions
• Time and money saved (speedier processes/processing)
• Invoices can be archived electronically (on your systems) and forwarded within your company

Electronic invoices allow you, as the invoice issuer, to send invoices in electronic format either directly from your software or using our eInvoicing portal, and you can send these either as electronic invoices to your business customers’ software, or as e-bills to your customers‘ e-banking accounts. Additionally, as the invoice recipient, you can also receive and process invoices digitally in your software. This saves you time and effort, gives you complete control over all your processes, and is environmentally friendly.

• E-bills abroad are generally only used in the business-to-business (B2B) field. The ability to send an electronic invoice as an e-bill to e-banking accounts from practically any bank in Switzerland is unique.
• Thanks to “Interconnect”, you can use PostFinance to send e-bills to companies abroad and receive digital bills from them as well.

In Switzerland, a number of key actors are involved in the sending and receiving of e-bills:

• Software partners provide business software (ERP) that can be used to create and process invoices.
• eInvoicing providers receive digital invoice data and forward it to the right recipient.
• Network partners forward digital invoices to the eBill platform, which is implemented in 99 percent of Swiss financial institutions.
• Financial institutions provide customers with access to eBill services in e-banking/e-finance.

PostFinance not only has a wide network of software partners whose software provides an interface with PostFinance for sending and receiving digital invoices, it is also an e-billing provider, an eBill network partner and an eBill-affiliated bank. This means it offers a one-stop shop for all things e-billing.

PostFinance offers electronic invoices in “IDOC INVOIC 01/02” and “ybinvoice 2.x” format for when they are sent via SFTP or web services. Additionally, QR-bills can be uploaded in PDF format to the eInvoicing portal and delivered.

When sending and receiving electronic invoices, each transaction incurs a fee. The price depends on the number of e-bills sent and/or received per month.

Yes, QR-bills can be uploaded in PDF format to the eInvoicing portal and delivered. If you wish to send greater quantities of e-bills, it is a very good idea to check the direct interface connection from your software.

You can send digital invoices as e-bills directly to your customers’ e-banking accounts, or send them directly as e-bills to your business customers’ software.

No, in Switzerland there is no general obligation to offer electronic invoices. However, for environmental reasons and from a cost and process optimization perspective, it is a good idea to send and receive invoices electronically.

With PostFinance, you can manage your e-bills easily on the eInvoicing portal which has lots of handy features. You can, for instance, search for invoice recipients and adjust individual settings using Self-Service.

• Over 100 pieces of software provide a standardized interface for sending electronic invoices and e-bills via PostFinance. The list of software partners is growing all the time.
• If you use SAP or your own individual solution, you can set up an individual interface with PostFinance.

• You benefit from free advice and our support. In the price bracket covering up to 1,000 invoices per month, no costs are charged for monthly transactions worth 8 francs.
• The eInvoicing portal is free to use.
• PostFinance helps you free of charge to attract new eBill recipients using the “Look-up” and “Invoice issuer registration” web services.

Ideally you should have a piece of software you can use to create your invoices, which you can then send to PostFinance via an interface. Alternatively, you can also create QR-bills and send these in PDF format via the eInvoicing portal.

Input tax deductions work in exactly the same way as they do for paper invoices.