Germany's e-invoicing mandate has a date.
Since 2025 every German company must be able to receive e-invoices; from 2027 companies above 800,000 € in prior-year revenue must issue them. If your invoicing chain needs rebuilding anyway, rebuild it once and properly.
The mandate comes with dates, not opinions.
The legal basis is the Wachstumschancengesetz. The second half of 2026 is the window in which affected companies rebuild their invoicing, before it gets tight.
Since January 1, 2025
Every German company must be able to receive structured e-invoices (EN 16931).
in forceFrom January 1, 2027
Companies above 800,000 € in prior-year revenue must issue e-invoices. Paper and plain PDF are no longer permitted in B2B.
3 months outFrom January 1, 2028
The issuing mandate applies regardless of revenue; small businesses under the VAT exemption stay excepted for good.
no threshold
Format conversion or process opportunity.
The minimal route
A converter produces a valid format at the end, while everything else stays manual: items typed by hand, invoices sent one by one, payments reconciled by hand.
The end-to-end route
From service records, order data and master data the invoice is created automatically, dispatched the right way, with a status and reconciliation. Built between your existing systems (ERP, merchandise management, WMS/TMS, M365, DATEV) and operated by us afterwards.
German E-Invoicing Checklist 2027/2028
Deadlines, inbound and outbound checkpoints, the most frequent rejections and the funding rule, compact and actionable.
Three fixed prices, one pipeline.
All three include validation against EN 16931, the connection to your accounting and the handover into ongoing operation.
Receive · € 3,900
E-invoices arrive by mail or portal, are validated (XRechnung and ZUGFeRD against EN 16931), filed and passed to DATEV or your accounting; failures land on a review list. Up to about 20 employees, typically two weeks.
Receive and issue · € 7,900
Plus issuing: the valid e-invoice is generated from your source system (ERP, merchandise management, time tracking), dispatched the right way and carries a status. Up to about 50 employees, typically four to six weeks.
End-to-end · € 12,900
Several source systems or sites, payment reconciliation back into the system, DATEV in both directions, training for your team. Over 50 employees, typically six to eight weeks.
Funding depends on the state.
Merely meeting the e-invoicing mandate is excluded from the state programmes; an end-to-end automated invoicing pipeline with reorganised processes is not.
Rhineland-Palatinate
In Rhineland-Palatinate the ISB business consulting programme covers up to 50 percent of the consulting and concept share (up to 500 € per consultant day, 20 days in four years); the implementation itself is not eligible there.
North Rhine-Westphalia
In North Rhine-Westphalia, MID Digitale Prozesse funds consulting on digitising internal processes but explicitly excludes measures that merely fulfil legal requirements such as e-invoicing; there is no state grant there for introducing e-invoicing itself.
Tell us how an invoice is created today.
Five sentences, from service to dispatch. You get an honest assessment of what the mandate means for you and what the automated pipeline costs.