# E-Invoicing in Australia **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 11, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/e-invoicing-in-australia/31973 "2020-12-11T12:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VACUUMDOG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/vacuumdog/32/7101_2.png) [@VACUUMDOG](https://forum.manager.io/u/VACUUMDOG)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/e-invoicing-in-australia/31973/1 "2020-12-11T12:12:59Z")
@lubos Are there plans to make Manager compliant with the Peppol standard to be introduced in Australia? > **[eInvoicing](https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/eInvoicing/?=Redirected_URL)** > > eInvoicing is a key step in digitalising small business and improving how we do business in Australia and globally. > **[eInvoicing | ATO Software Developers](https://softwaredevelopers.ato.gov.au/eInvoicing)** > > On this page What is eInvoicing Getting involved with eInvoicing Peppol eInvoicing and other eProcruement implementations eInvoicing Week 2022 Consultation Latest news Questions What is eInvoicing? ---
**Author:** ![dalacor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dalacor](https://forum.manager.io/u/dalacor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/e-invoicing-in-australia/31973/2 "2020-12-11T12:59:30Z")
Is this practical? I can’t see hundreds of different accounting programs being able to “talk” to one another. Yes the Peppol standard might create a consistent format to communicate but it’s not that easy to integrate different platforms that well otherwise we would already be doing this years ago I would think. Even word and google docs does not 100% reliably sync - there are still slight differences in formatting etc. ---
**Author:** ![VACUUMDOG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/vacuumdog/32/7101_2.png) [@VACUUMDOG](https://forum.manager.io/u/VACUUMDOG)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/e-invoicing-in-australia/31973/3 "2020-12-11T13:26:43Z")
> [@dalacor](#): > > Is this practical? Don’t know about practical but if it is adopted as mandatory I can’t see the ATO making exceptions and as I, like many others, deal with government agencies and businesses it will be a necessity to comply. ---
**Author:** ![dalacor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dalacor](https://forum.manager.io/u/dalacor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/e-invoicing-in-australia/31973/4 "2020-12-11T14:00:45Z")
I suspect it may get abandoned when somebody in IT tells me just how difficult and expensive this will be. it is one thing to export tax returns to the government. But this is completely different. I suspect that ATO will probably realise that it won’t be possible for the sheer cost and complexity. Also from a malware, hack point of view - it is a disastrous idea in my opinion. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://forum.manager.io/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/e-invoicing-in-australia/31973/5 "2020-12-11T20:50:42Z")
It is in the ideas section already > [@European Digital Invoice](https://forum.manager.io/t/european-digital-invoice/20295): > > Dear @lubos Here in Europe the process to make all transactions digital has started with Italy which was appointed, sadly because of a large amount of VAT frauds, as the first nation to adopt digital invoices. Basically they are an XML file. You can find the format here: [https://www.fatturapa.gov.it/export/fatturazione/en/normativa/f-2.htm?l=en](https://www.fatturapa.gov.it/export/fatturazione/en/normativa/f-2.htm?l=en) I know that it is almost impossible for you to adopt all legal fantasies of nations around the word, but maybe you can create an instrument to save, o… A possible implementation interface is discussed here > [@"Report tranformation" which writes to data entry screen](https://forum.manager.io/t/report-tranformation-which-writes-to-data-entry-screen/31600/2): > > Report transformations (or whatever we call it in the future) will be for reports only. But I think during data-entry, there needs to be similar concept developed where it would be possible to hook up Liquid markup which could modify form data based on input while doing data-entry. You are thinking about this feature the right way (even if we don’t know what it should be called), it’s just premature when report transformations themselves are not complete yet (therefore not as useful as I want t… ---
**Author:** ![dalacor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dalacor](https://forum.manager.io/u/dalacor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/e-invoicing-in-australia/31973/6 "2020-12-11T21:26:31Z")
Thinking about it, it might actually be possible. You can import bank statements from pretty much any bank with any accounting program using ofx. So I suppose in theory, it should not be much more difficult to implement a consistent format for transfer. Just how the transfer is actually made will be a whole 'nother matter. ---
**Author:** ![Ealfardan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/ealfardan/32/63166_2.png) [@Ealfardan](https://forum.manager.io/u/Ealfardan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/e-invoicing-in-australia/31973/7 "2023-01-18T14:52:15Z")