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2768238 - How to Perform E-Invoicing in SAP Business ByDesign

Symptom

You want to know how Electronic Invoicing works in SAP Business ByDesign.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Resolution

For Mexico, if the revenue of your company is above the threshold defined by SAT (Servicio de Administración Tributaria), you must issue electronic invoices. You can refer the Help Document Invoice Processing - Mexico for the prerequisites and Process flow in SAP Business ByDesign.

 

For India, SAP Business ByDesign supports the process flow of India E-Invoice legal approval and also helps generate and process the relevant JSON files required for this legal requirement.
Further details are available in:

 

You can find further information regarding the mandatory E-invoicing in Spain with Verifactu Spain in the following Help Center Documents:

Make Company VeriFactu Relevant

Scope VeriFactu

Create Communication System

Create Communication Arrangement

For the countries Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and Norway you can use the Integration for SAP Business ByDesign to Peppol Network from Release 2202 onwards.
With Release 2208 the integration is now also supported for Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.
With Release 2305 the integration is now also supported for Japan.


Peppol Exchange Service for the Cloud Edition of SAP Document and Reporting Compliance (DRC):
The Peppol Exchange service for the cloud edition of SAP Document and Reporting Compliance provides Peppol access point services to senders and receivers of electronic documents using the Peppol eDelivery Network. It enables you to exchange invoices and related documents in electronic form with authorities and business partners.
Further details are available in the Blog: Integrating SAP Business ByDesign to Peppol Network

 

For all other countries you can enable E-Invoicing in SAP Business ByDesign via a partner implementation.
Further details are available in the Blogs:

Please also find more details in regards to XSLT template that supports the German xRechnung in the following Blog: German xRechnung Templates for SAP Business ByDesign 

See Also

Blog:

A Comprehensive Guide to Electronic Invoicing enablement in SAP Business ByDesign

Help Center Documentation:

Invoice Processing – Mexico

Configuration: Communication Arrangement with Business Partner for Electronic Invoices – Mexico

Configuration: Contractual Agreement with Service Provider for Electronic Invoices - Mexico

Configuration Guide for Assignment of Invoice Processing Methods – Mexico

How to Maintain Transformation ID in Output Management to Support Electronic Invoicing

What Is Peppol Exchange

Peppol Participant Identifier

Configurations in Peppol Service Dashboard

Setting up Document Compliance Peppol Integration

Make Company VeriFactu Relevant

Scope VeriFactu

Create Communication System - VeriFactu

Create Communication Arrangement - VeriFactu

Relevant KBA's: 

KBA 3016103 - Is ZUGFeERD supported in Business By Design?

KBA 3717988 - Self-billing (ERS) for the Belgium 2026 e-Invoicing mandate in SAP Business ByDesign

KBA 3572436 - E-invoicing 2025 changes in Israel - Localization

KBA 3739092 - KSeF Integration in SAP Business ByDesign

KBA 3702954 - New feature E-invoice incl. PDF

KBA 3356804 - How to generate an output with only a XML file without sending the PDF

KBA 3698312 - E-Invoicing Include PDF Field Missing in Account Master Data

KBA 3227666 - Missing Legal Approval Step for E-invoicing

KBA 3621967 - Scoping Questions not visible forDocument Compliance Service Integration - Peppol Integration in SAP Business ByDesign

KBA 3657090 - Customer Invoices not Integrated With Peppol are Displayed in the Document Compliance Monitor View

KBA 3257397 - The Buyer GSTIN is missing in the Json file for E-invoice India

KBA 3350177 - Bueyer GSTIN is nill in the JSON file for e-invoice

KBA 3343078 - IRN not Generated for B2C E-Invoice

KBA 3065482 - IRN and QR code is missing in Customer Invoice XML and output form.

KBA 3467911 - Incorrect Subtyp in JSON for E-invoice for Country India

KBA 3430674 - Incomplete Address In JSON File For E-Invoicing India.

Keywords

Electronic; Tax to Govt; E-Tax; e-invoices; SAT, Servicio de Administración Tributaria; Peppol; EInvoicing; Electronic Invoicing; E-Invoicing; Cloud Edition of SAP Document and Reporting Compliance; DRC; DC; Country; Legal; X-Rechnung; XRechnung; e-invoicing functionality , KBA , AP-CI-CI-GLO , Cross-Country Extensions , How To

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