{"id":6061,"date":"2025-11-15T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staware.de\/zugferd-central-user-guide-of-the-forum-for-electronic-invoicing-germany\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:16:51","slug":"zugferd-central-user-guide-of-the-forum-for-electronic-invoicing-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/zugferd-central-user-guide-of-the-forum-for-electronic-invoicing-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"ZUGFeRD (Central User Guide of the Forum for Electronic Invoicing Germany)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">From version 2.0, the ZUGFeRD hybrid format includes both a visual component (PDF file) and structured invoice data (XML file) integrated into a PDF\/A-3 file. This combination enables standardized extraction of invoice data.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The visual representation of the invoice is provided as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PDF\/A#PDF\/A-3\">PDF\/A-3<\/a> file. The machine-readable data in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extensible_Markup_Language\">XML<\/a> format is attached to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PDF\/A#PDF\/A-3\">PDF\/A-3<\/a>. Thus, the PDF serves as a container for both the visual representation and the XML data.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Formatting and layout of the PDF file are not specified for ZUGFeRD invoices.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">ZUGFeRD from version 2.0 supports invoices compliant with the EN 16931 standard (e-invoices).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">XML in CII Format<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The ZUGFeRD data format is based on Directive 2014\/55\/EU of April 16, 2014, on electronic invoicing for public procurement and the EN16931 standard published on June 28, 2017. In addition, the Cross-Industry-Invoice (CII) from UN\/CEFACT and ISO standard 19005-3:2012 (PDF\/A-3) are supported from ZUGFeRD 2.0 onward.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">ZUGFeRD 2.2 and Factur-X 1.0 are fully compatible and technically identical formats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From version 2.0, the ZUGFeRD hybrid format includes both a visual component (PDF file) and structured invoice data (XML file) integrated into a PDF\/A-3 file. This combination enables standardized extraction of invoice data.<\/p>\n<p>The visual representation of the invoice is provided as a PDF\/A-3 file. The machine-readable data in XML format is attached to the PDF\/A-3. Thus, the PDF serves as a container for both the visual representation and the XML data.<\/p>\n<p>Formatting and layout of the PDF file are not specified for ZUGFeRD invoices.<\/p>\n<p>ZUGFeRD from version 2.0 supports invoices compliant with the EN 16931 standard (e-invoices).<\/p>\n<p>XML in CII [&#8230;] <a class=\"wt_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/zugferd-central-user-guide-of-the-forum-for-electronic-invoicing-germany\/\" title=\"Read more\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more<i class=\"fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.staware.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}