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Accounts payable for European suppliers under the EU VAT Directive: invoice number, invoice and delivery dates (dd.MM.yyyy and similar), supplier and customer VAT IDs checked against each member state's format, IBAN with check-digit validation, BIC, net, VAT and gross amounts in EUR. Reverse-charge invoices are allowed to have no VAT amount.
At a glance
| Region | Europe |
| Industry | Finance & accounts payable |
| Document types | Invoice, Credit note |
| Workflow | Scan → OCR, separation & classification → Classification → Extraction & validation → Index / Validate → PDF generation & export |
| Straight-through processing | Yes — documents that pass every check skip Index / Validate |
| Separation | blank pages |
| Output | searchable PDF with XML, JSON data |
| Dates read as | dd.MM.yyyy, d.M.yyyy, dd/MM/yyyy |
Use this template
- Go to Batch Setups and choose New Batch Setup.
- Filter by Europe or search for "Supplier invoices (Europe)", select it and choose Next.
- Name the Batch Setup, choose the export folder and create it.
- Try it with a few of your own documents on the Test tab, adjust fields and rules, then publish it — see Test a Batch Setup and Versions and publishing.
Batch fields
Entered once per batch, for example on the Scan screen.
| Field | Type | Required | Found by | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batch reference | Text | entered by the operator | ||
| Control total (optional) | Amount | entered by the operator |
Document types and fields
Invoice
Recognised by words such as "invoice", "amount due", "VAT", "rechnung", "facture", "factura".
| Field | Type | Required | Found by | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invoice number | Text | Yes | pattern in the text | |
| Invoice date | Date | Yes | label "Invoice date", "Date of issue", "Tax point" | Not in the future |
| Due date | Date | label "Due date", "Payment due", "Pay by" | ||
| Supplier | Text | Yes | label "Supplier", "From", "Vendor" | |
| Supplier VAT ID | Text | pattern in the text | EU VAT number | |
| Net amount | Amount | label "Subtotal", "Sub total", "Net amount" | at least 0 | |
| VAT | Amount | label "VAT", "MwSt", "USt" | at least 0 | |
| Total amount | Amount | Yes | label "Total due", "Amount due", "Balance due" | at least 0 |
| Currency | Choice | default "EUR" | one of: GBP, EUR, USD, CHF, SEK, DKK … | |
| Customer VAT ID | Text | label "Customer VAT", "Your VAT ID", "VAT ID of recipient" | EU VAT number | |
| Supplier IBAN | Text | pattern in the text | IBAN | |
| BIC / SWIFT | Text | pattern in the text | BIC / SWIFT | |
| Reverse charge | Choice | default "No" | one of: No, Yes |
Credit note
Recognised by words such as "credit note", "credit memo", "gutschrift", "avoir".
| Field | Type | Required | Found by | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invoice number | Text | Yes | pattern in the text | |
| Invoice date | Date | Yes | label "Invoice date", "Date of issue", "Tax point" | Not in the future |
| Due date | Date | label "Due date", "Payment due", "Pay by" | ||
| Supplier | Text | Yes | label "Supplier", "From", "Vendor" | |
| Supplier VAT ID | Text | pattern in the text | EU VAT number | |
| Net amount | Amount | label "Subtotal", "Sub total", "Net amount" | at least 0 | |
| VAT | Amount | label "VAT", "MwSt", "USt" | at least 0 | |
| Total amount | Amount | Yes | label "Total due", "Amount due", "Balance due" | at least 0 |
| Currency | Choice | default "EUR" | one of: GBP, EUR, USD, CHF, SEK, DKK … | |
| Customer VAT ID | Text | label "Customer VAT", "Your VAT ID", "VAT ID of recipient" | EU VAT number | |
| Supplier IBAN | Text | pattern in the text | IBAN | |
| BIC / SWIFT | Text | pattern in the text | BIC / SWIFT | |
| Reverse charge | Choice | default "No" | one of: No, Yes |
Validation rules
- Due date on or after invoice date (warning)
- No duplicate invoice numbers in a batch — checked across the whole batch
- Net + VAT = total (unless reverse charge)
- Reverse-charge invoices name the customer's VAT ID
See Validation rules to change them or add your own.
Adapt it to your documents
- Add or rename fields and change how they are found: Fields and data extraction, Finders and zones.
- Improve document type recognition: Document classes and classification, Samples and classifier training.
- Send the documents and data to your systems — folders and servers, SharePoint, Google Drive and other cloud drives, S3, document management (FileNet, Alfresco, M-Files, DocuWare), SAP, Dynamics 365, Salesforce, Xero, QuickBooks, SQL, REST or a C# script: Output and export, Cloud and business-system destinations.
- Arrange the data entry screen: Screen designer.