E-invoicing

Receive e-invoices

Overview

After an entity completes e-invoicing onboarding, it starts to automatically receive e-invoices and credit notes from vendors directly into Monite accounts payable.

Incoming e-invoices are processed into payables with the payable_origin field set to "einvoicing", indicating they were received via an e-invoicing network.

For credit notes, the document’s origin is specified in the origin field.

Receive payables e-invoices via email

In Germany, payables e-invoices can be sent via email in the ZUGFeRD format as an alternative to the PEPPOL network. This allows entities to receive structured e-invoices without being registered on PEPPOL.

How email receiving works

To receive payables e-invoices via email into Monite:

  1. Create an e-invoicing connection via the POST /einvoicing_connections endpoint. No need to set up credentials.
  2. Receive the e-invoicing via email (XML or PDF) in the ZUGFeRD format in the entity’s dedicated mailbox.
  3. Monite automatically detects if the email contains payables e-invoices by analyzing the attached files.
  4. A payable object is created in Monite.

This approach only works for accounts payable in Germany.

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