86 VIEWPOINT Evolving e-invoicing Avalara’s E-Invoicing and Live Reporting platform can help businesses navigate the different systems for e-invoicing across the world For multinational organisations, managing electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) and livereporting compliance is increasingly complex due to a fragmented regulatory landscape. Similar to how state-level sales tax systems vary, global e-invoicing mandates differ by country and often require businesses to interact with unique governmental systems, platforms and networks, using structured, machine-readable formats. Countries have adopted a variety of e-invoicing frameworks – ranging from decentralised models using open exchange protocols to centralised, pre-clearance or real-time reporting models that mandate direct submission to local tax authorities. These differences create significant challenges for international companies whose enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and financial workflows are not inherently designed to format and transmit invoices per jurisdiction-specific schema or connectivity requirements. Avalara E-Invoicing and Live Reporting (ELR) provides a unified, API-driven platform to address these challenges. It enables businesses to send and receive e-invoices and report transactions in real time, using a single integration point that abstracts country-specific compliance logic. The ELR platform also integrates with Avalara for Microsoft Dynamics GP, Avalara for Dynamics 365 Finance and Avalara for Dynamics 365 Business Central. These connectors allow compliance workflows to be embedded directly within their ERP systems, eliminating the need for custom development or middleware. Customers with these connectors and an ELR subscription can transmit e-invoices, adhering to countryspecific requirements from their business system. A few additional benefits of ELR include end-toend automation, with invoice generation, validation, formatting, transmission and status handling all occurring within the Dynamics environment. ELR can also simplify exception handling and audit preparation with transaction-level logging and error reporting. Additionally, the platform is designed to handle high volumes of transactions across multiple jurisdictions concurrently. ELR supports Peppol, national platforms and networks (such as SDI in Italy, Chorus Pro in France, and MyInvois in Malaysia), and direct government APIs. ELR supports real-time transmission of invoice and transaction data to tax authorities, ensuring continuous compliance with digital value-added tax/goods and services tax reporting mandates. This is critical for jurisdictions enforcing continuous transaction controls or requiring nearinstantaneous validation of business-to-business invoices. In addition, ELR also supports inbound e-invoicing, receiving and processing purchase invoices from vendors from across networks or direct from tax authority platforms. While more and more countries globally are implementing mandatory e-invoicing or digital reporting requirements, a scalable, cloud-native solution for managing global e-invoicing and tax reporting requirements through a single, standardised interface is essential. For technical teams, Avalara ELR simplifies system architecture, reduces the compliance surface area, and ensures that ERP-driven invoicing processes remain auditready and future-proof as mandates evolve. Alex Baulf is vice president of e-invoicing at Avalara ALEX BAULF: AVALARA “A scalable, cloud-native solution for managing global e-invoicing... is essential”
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