E-invoicing with Sovos
This topic is intended for Zuora Global Service engineers and customer developers who wish to configure e-invoice file templates for Sovos integration.
The Zuora E-Invoicing feature provides the extensibility and configurability to empower you to build country- and customer-specific integrations with Sovos E-Invoice solution including:
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Create e-invoice file templates to streamline integration for new countries
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Customize standard e-invoice file templates to meet specific customer requirements
Standard business documents for Sovos
When e-invoicing with Sovos, Zuora generates electronic billing documents (standard business documents) based on Sovos-compliant e-invoicing file templates and then sends the documents to Sovos.
Each document sent to Sovos consists of the following parts:
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Standard Business Document Header (SBDH): Provides semantic information required for the routing, processing, and business domain context of the document.
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Sovos Document (SD): Contains a Sovos Canonical Invoice (SCI) or a Sovos Local Document (SLD).
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Sovos Canonical Invoice: details of the billing document. SCI is a standard created by Sovos based on the Universal Business Language (UBL2.1). For more information about SCI and a spreadsheet with country-specific details, see Sovos Canonical Invoice.
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Sovos Legal Document: local format for a specific country or document encoded in Base64, optionally including Additional Data. Note that Zuora does not support Sovos Legal Document for now.
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For more information, see Standard Business Document.