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Free invoices for Germany and the EU, ready for e-invoicing

For freelancers, small businesses and expats in Germany. Write invoices in German, English or Portuguese, let the tool pick the VAT treatment, and export an XRechnung file for B2B e-invoicing.

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$ cat features.md

  • Picks the VAT treatment from sender and client country and type: domestic, small business (§ 19 UStG), EU reverse charge, intra-EU goods, export, non-EU supplier, and prints the matching legal note.
  • Compliance check against § 14 UStG, § 35a GmbHG and the EU VAT Directive: issuing is blocked until every required detail is there.
  • Invoice texts in German, English and Portuguese.
  • Gap-free invoice numbers per sender, optional monthly series per client, credit notes for corrections.
  • Exports invoices, credit notes and self-billing invoices as XRechnung 3.0 (CII) XML, accepted by the official KoSIT validator.
  • Browser mode: your data stays in your browser, with JSON backup export. Self-host it with PHP for multiple users.

$ cat why.md

I built this for my own companies, which invoice across Germany and Portugal, because every invoice tool I tried either got the VAT note wrong for cross-border cases or wanted a subscription for something this small. From 2027 and 2028, German businesses must send B2B invoices as e-invoices, so it now exports XRechnung too.

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Requirements
Static files for browser mode; PHP 8 for the multi-user server mode. Docker Compose file included.
Built with
HTML, JavaScript, optional PHP
License
MIT

The repository goes public on GitHub soon. Until then, ask me for the code and I'll send you access.

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