Operating in Europe

A rule about receipts can be an integration, an architecture or an accreditation, and only the first is something you can shortlist for. The third is answered by a public register in about two minutes and almost nobody evaluating from outside the country knows to look. Our own audit against one European regime, including the six days this site contradicted itself.

Every system numbers its invoices sequentially and almost none of them can tell you whether the sequence belongs to you. Ours could not: for five document types the counter was reconciled against a number unique across the whole platform. We published that, then fixed it the next day, and both dates are on the page.

Five exclusions at the top rather than the bottom: no VAT numbers on the invoice, no VIES check, no reverse-charge treatment, no Belastingdienst connection, no Dutch reference customer. Then the questions worth asking everybody else.

Zero-rated, exempt and reverse-charged all print as nothing and mean different things for who accounts for the tax and what can be recovered. Our schema has two values for the three, no value for the third — and charges the standard rate if you invent one.

Software is shortlisted on whether the tax comes out right. In the Netherlands a cross-border invoice carries no tax at all, and what makes it lawful is a name, a number and a sentence on the face of the document — three things our own invoice template does not print, though the database holds all of them.

A British contractor files monthly, naming each subcontractor, what they were paid, and how much of it was materials. That third figure is defined as what the contractor is satisfied the subcontractor's own materials cost — not a number on any document you hold.

British price marking treats a price as five properties: a number to a stated precision, a unit, a condition, a currency and a relative type size. A price field is one of them — and two of the five belong to how something is printed.

Large UK companies publish how fast they pay suppliers twice a year, and every figure is a difference between two dates the Regulations define precisely. One of them is not the invoice date, not the date you entered it, and not the due date.

British lifting-equipment rules give you a six or twelve month floor, two events that bring the date forward, and a next-due date a named person writes into a signed report. A recurring reminder is none of those three.

A journal entry here carries an account, an amount, a reference and a description — clean, fast and easy to audit. Branch, department and project dimensions, so you can read profit by any of them, are an extension we can make for you.

An employee’s pay package is designed as a dated series — draft, active, superseded, each with a start and an end. In practice every employee has exactly one, created the first time somebody opens the screen and edited in place from then on.

Our data export and erasure tooling takes a user account. An external ticket requester does not have one — that is the entire reason they were sent a tracking link. So the people most likely to ask are the people the tool cannot be pointed at.