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ebInterface
ebInterface is the Austrian XML-standard for e-Invoices specified and standardised by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO/AUSTRIAPRO) in collaboration with the industry. The official site is available under www.ebinterface.at. Planning to create your e-Invoices with ebInterface it is recommended to use version 4.3, 5.0, 6.0 or 6.1 since it offers the best support for the requirements of an e-Invoice to the public sector. ebInterface sample files can be downloaded from this page.
Note: for testing your ebInterface invoice it is possible to either display it with explanations or upload it for testing purposes in Test Upload.
Deviating from standard ebInterface e-Invoices to the public sector apply following special rules for certain data fields. There are specific XML schemata available, with witch the specific requirements for the public sector can be checked in advance.
Note: for each ebInterface version only the modified main XML schema can be downloaded. The additional XML schemata for each version are available on the official website of ebInterface.
Note: ebInterface 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 are not supported from April 2022 – - Details
Note: ebInterface 3.0 and 3.02 are unsupported since January 2016 since the formats are deprecated.
- Format of the document: ebInterface version 6.1 - official specification
- The most important differences to the standard ebInterface format are:
- An e-Invoice may not refer to multiple orders at once.
- The attribute
DocumentType
must only be one of the following valuesInvoice
,InvoiceForAdvancePayment
,InvoiceForPartialDelivery
,FinalSettlement
orCreditMemo
- The element
InvoiceRecipient/OrderReference/OrderID
is mandatory and has to be filled with the order reference (either to the Federal Government or to the other invoice recipients). - If the receiver is a Federal Government agency and the order reference is an order number (10 digits numeric) an appropriate order position number has to be entered in the field
InvoiceRecipientsOrderReference/OrderPositionNumber
. Federal Government order position numbers are always numeric.
In this case the elementInvoiceRecipientsOrderReference/OrderID
must also be used and should be filled with the same value as the header elementOrderID
. - The
TradingName
element is ignored. - All
AddressExtension
elements are ignored. - Within the
Biller
element at least oneEmail
address must be indicated. - The element
Biller/InvoiceRecipientsBillerID
must contain the supplier number (details for usage by the Federal Government). - At maximum 999 invoice and/or BelowTheLine lines are possible.
- The percentage of cash discount amounts must be greater than 0 and less than 100.
- An maximum of
Discount
elements are allowed. - When payment method
UniversalBankTransaction
is used exactly oneBeneficiaryAccount
element must be provided. - The payment methods
PaymentCard
andOtherPayment
are not supported. - Invoices must contain a payment method (
UniversalBankTransaction
,SEPADirectDebit
orNoPayment
). Credit notes do not require such a field. - For payment transfer IBAN must be provided.
- For payment method
SEPADirectDebit
the elementsType
,IBAN
,BankAccountOwner
,CreditorID
,MandateReference
andDebitCollectionDate
must be provided. - The element
MinimumPayment
is not evaluated - The payment method
NoPayment
may only be used for credit notes or invoices with a payable amount of zero. - The element
Delivery/Comment
may contain at most 500 characters. - The element
ListLineItem/DiscountFlag
is not evaluated. - The field below
ListLineItem/AdditionalInformation
are not evaluated. - The attribute
BaseQuantity
in aListLineItem
cannot be evaluated by e-Rechnung.gv.at. Therefore either the value of the elementQuantity
or the value of the elementUnitPrice
is used for division by the value of elementBaseQuantity
. If in both cases a value with more than 4 decimal digits arise the invoice must be rejected, since it cannot be processed correctly. - The element
PrepaidAmount
is not evaluated. - The element
TotalGrossAmount
is neither checked nor evaluated. Only the elementPayableAmount
is validated and processed. - All custom
Extension
elements are ignored.
- For certain values no explicit elements are available. Therefore they have to be put in generic elements as follows:
- The company headquarters according to section 14 of the UGB (Austrian Commercial Code) must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFS
(German Firmensitz = headquarters).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FS">Wien</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The commercial register number according to section 14 of the UGB must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFN
(German Firmenbuchnummer = commercial register number).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FN">12345678</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The commercial register court according to section 14 of the UGB must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFBG
(German Firmenbuchgericht = commercial register court).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FBG">Handelsgericht Wien</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The company headquarters according to section 14 of the UGB (Austrian Commercial Code) must be provided in the element
- Format of the document: ebInterface version 6.0 - official specification
- The most important differences to the standard ebInterface format are:
- An e-Invoice may not refer to multiple orders at once.
- The attribute
DocumentType
must only be one of the following valuesInvoice
,InvoiceForAdvancePayment
,InvoiceForPartialDelivery
,FinalSettlement
orCreditMemo
- The element
InvoiceRecipient/OrderReference/OrderID
is mandatory and has to be filled with the order reference (either to the Federal Government or to the other invoice recipients). - If the receiver is a Federal Government agency and the order reference is an order number (10 digits numeric) an appropriate order position number has to be entered in the field
InvoiceRecipientsOrderReference/OrderPositionNumber
. Federal Government order position numbers are always numeric.
In this case the elementInvoiceRecipientsOrderReference/OrderID
must also be used and should be filled with the same value as the header elementOrderID
. - The
TradingName
element is ignored. - All
AddressExtension
elements are ignored. - Within the
Biller
element at least oneEmail
address must be indicated. - The element
Biller/InvoiceRecipientsBillerID
must contain the supplier number (details for usage by the Federal Government). - At maximum 999 invoice lines are possible.
- The percentage of cash discount amounts must be greater than 0 and less than 100.
- An maximum of
Discount
elements are allowed. - When payment method
UniversalBankTransaction
is used exactly oneBeneficiaryAccount
element must be provided. - The payment methods
PaymentCard
andOtherPayment
are not supported. - Invoices must contain a payment method (
UniversalBankTransaction
,SEPADirectDebit
orNoPayment
). Credit notes do not require such a field. - For payment transfer IBAN must be provided.
- For payment method
SEPADirectDebit
the elementsType
,IBAN
,BankAccountOwner
,CreditorID
,MandateReference
andDebitCollectionDate
must be provided. - The element
MinimumPayment
is not evaluated - The payment method
NoPayment
may only be used for credit notes or invoices with a payable amount of zero. - The element
Delivery/Comment
may contain at most 500 characters. - The element
ListLineItem/DiscountFlag
is not evaluated. - The field below
ListLineItem/AdditionalInformation
are not evaluated. - The attribute
BaseQuantity
in aListLineItem
cannot be evaluated by e-Rechnung.gv.at. Therefore either the value of the elementQuantity
or the value of the elementUnitPrice
is used for division by the value of elementBaseQuantity
. If in both cases a value with more than 4 decimal digits arise the invoice must be rejected, since it cannot be processed correctly. - The element
PrepaidAmount
is not evaluated. - The element
TotalGrossAmount
is neither checked nor evaluated. Only the elementPayableAmount
is validated and processed. - All custom
Extension
elements are ignored.
- For certain values no explicit elements are available. Therefore they have to be put in generic elements as follows:
- The company headquarters according to section 14 of the UGB (Austrian Commercial Code) must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFS
(German Firmensitz = headquarters).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FS">Wien</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The commercial register number according to section 14 of the UGB must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFN
(German Firmenbuchnummer = commercial register number).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FN">12345678</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The commercial register court according to section 14 of the UGB must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFBG
(German Firmenbuchgericht = commercial register court).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FBG">Handelsgericht Wien</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The company headquarters according to section 14 of the UGB (Austrian Commercial Code) must be provided in the element
- Format of the document: ebInterface version 5.0 - official specification
- The most important differences to the standard ebInterface format are:
- An e-Invoice may not refer to multiple orders at once.
- The attribute
DocumentType
must only be one of the following valuesInvoice
,InvoiceForAdvancePayment
,InvoiceForPartialDelivery
,FinalSettlement
orCreditMemo
- The element
InvoiceRecipient/OrderReference/OrderID
is mandatory and has to be filled with the order reference (either to the Federal Government or to the other invoice recipients). - If the receiver is a Federal Government agency and the order reference is an order number (10 digits numeric) an appropriate order position number has to be entered in the field
InvoiceRecipientsOrderReference/OrderPositionNumber
. Federal Government order position numbers are always numeric.
In this case the elementInvoiceRecipientsOrderReference/OrderID
must also be used and should be filled with the same value as the header elementOrderID
. - The
TradingName
element is ignored. - All
AddressExtension
elements are ignored. - Within the
Biller
element at least oneEmail
address must be indicated. - The element
Biller/InvoiceRecipientsBillerID
must contain the supplier number (details for usage by the Federal Government). - At maximum 999 invoice lines are possible.
- The percentage of cash discount amounts must be greater than 0 and less than 100.
- An maximum of
Discount
elements are allowed. - When payment method
UniversalBankTransaction
is used exactly oneBeneficiaryAccount
element must be provided. - The payment methods
PaymentCard
andOtherPayment
are not supported. - Invoices must contain a payment method (
UniversalBankTransaction
,SEPADirectDebit
orNoPayment
). Credit notes do not require such a field. - For payment transfer IBAN must be provided.
- For payment method
SEPADirectDebit
the elementsType
,IBAN
,BankAccountOwner
,CreditorID
,MandateReference
andDebitCollectionDate
must be provided. - The element
MinimumPayment
is not evaluated - The payment method
NoPayment
may only be used for credit notes or invoices with a payable amount of zero. - The element
Delivery/Comment
may contain at most 500 characters. - The element
ListLineItem/DiscountFlag
is not evaluated. - The field below
ListLineItem/AdditionalInformation
are not evaluated. - The attribute
BaseQuantity
in aListLineItem
cannot be evaluated by e-Rechnung.gv.at. Therefore either the value of the elementQuantity
or the value of the elementUnitPrice
is used for division by the value of elementBaseQuantity
. If in both cases a value with more than 4 decimal digits arise the invoice must be rejected, since it cannot be processed correctly. - The element
PrepaidAmount
is not evaluated. - The element
TotalGrossAmount
is neither checked nor evaluated. Only the elementPayableAmount
is validated and processed.
- For certain values no explicit elements are available. Therefore they have to be put in generic elements as follows:
- The company headquarters according to section 14 of the UGB (Austrian Commercial Code) must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFS
(German Firmensitz = headquarters).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FS">Wien</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The commercial register number according to section 14 of the UGB must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFN
(German Firmenbuchnummer = commercial register number).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FN">12345678</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The commercial register court according to section 14 of the UGB must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFBG
(German Firmenbuchgericht = commercial register court).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FBG">Handelsgericht Wien</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The company headquarters according to section 14 of the UGB (Austrian Commercial Code) must be provided in the element
- Format of the document: ebInterface version 4.3 - official specification
- The most important differences to the standard ebInterface format are:
- An e-Invoice may not refer to multiple orders at once.
- The attribute
DocumentType
must only be one of the following valuesInvoice
,InvoiceForAdvancePayment
,InvoiceForPartialDelivery
,FinalSettlement
orCreditMemo
- The element
InvoiceRecipient/OrderReference/OrderID
is mandatory and has to be filled with the order reference (either to the Federal Government or to the other invoice recipients). - If the receiver is a Federal Government agency and the order reference is an order number (10 digits numeric) an appropriate order position number has to be entered in the field
InvoiceRecipientsOrderReference/OrderPositionNumber
. Federal Government order position numbers are always numeric.
In this case the elementInvoiceRecipientsOrderReference/OrderID
must also be used and should be filled with the same value as the header elementOrderID
. - All
AddressExtension
elements are ignored. - Within the
Biller
element at least oneEmail
address must be indicated. - The element
Biller/InvoiceRecipientsBillerID
must contain the supplier number (details for usage by the Federal Government). - At maximum 999 invoice and/or BelowTheLine lines are possible.
- The percentage of cash discount amounts must be greater than 0 and less than 100.
- An maximum of
Discount
elements are allowed. - When payment method
UniversalBankTransaction
is used exactly oneBeneficiaryAccount
element must be provided. - Invoices must contain a payment method (
UniversalBankTransaction
,DirectDebit
,SEPADirectDebit
orNoPayment
). Credit notes do not require such a field. - For payment transfer IBAN must be provided.
- For payment method
SEPADirectDebit
the elementsType
,IBAN
,BankAccountOwner
,CreditorID
,MandateReference
andDebitCollectionDate
must be provided. - The element
MinimumPayment
is not evaluated - The payment method
NoPayment
may only be used for credit notes or invoices with a payable amount of zero. - The element
Delivery/Comment
may contain at most 500 characters. - The element
ListLineItem/DiscountFlag
is not evaluated. - The field below
ListLineItem/AdditionalInformation
are not evaluated. - The element
PresentationDetails
is not evaluated. - The attribute
BaseQuantity
in aListLineItem
cannot be evaluated by e-Rechnung.gv.at. Therefore either the value of the elementQuantity
or the value of the elementUnitPrice
is used for division by the value of elementBaseQuantity
. If in both cases a value with more than 4 decimal digits arise the invoice must be rejected, since it cannot be processed correctly. - The element
TotalGrossAmount
is neither checked nor evaluated. Only the elementPayableAmount
is validated and processed.
- For certain values no explicit elements are available. Therefore they have to be put in generic elements as follows:
- The company headquarters according to section 14 of the UGB (Austrian Commercial Code) must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFS
(German Firmensitz = headquarters).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FS">Wien</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The commercial register number according to section 14 of the UGB must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFN
(German Firmenbuchnummer = commercial register number).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FN">12345678</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The commercial register court according to section 14 of the UGB must be provided in the element
/Invoice/Biller/FurtherIdentification
. The attributeIdentificationType
must have the valueFBG
(German Firmenbuchgericht = commercial register court).
Example:<eb:FurtherIdentification eb:IdentificationType="FBG">Handelsgericht Wien</eb:FurtherIdentification>
- The company headquarters according to section 14 of the UGB (Austrian Commercial Code) must be provided in the element