The Portuguese Law nr 256/03 consecrates in the VAT code of laws the possibility of transmission and archive of electronic invoices, if guaranteed the authenticity of its origin and the integrity of its content, using advanced electronic signatures.
The dematerialization of the invoice and correspondent introduction in the Portuguese legal system of the principle of equalization between paper and electronic invoices, becomes an excellent asset for the enterprise market, contributing for the consolidation of the electronic communication processes between business partners, and to the development of e-business:
It satisfies the interests of companies, improving reconciliation and invoice processing without introducing additional bureaucratic obligations;
It satisfies the interests of the fiscal Administration, since a digitally signed invoice is more secure that another one in paper;
Guarantees the authenticity, integrity and not repudiation of invoices;
Requires previous authorization of the fiscal administration;
Implementation processes are technologically open;
Service providers enable functional and cost effective solutions, allowing that projects of this type are accessible for any company.
Tradecom awareness of the impact that the adoption of electronic invoicing has for the enterprise community, enables us to provide, based on our portfolio of Services, a set of communication solutions able to endow our customers with all the required elements to the implementation of electronic invoicing projects.
These solutions includes:
ASP services, accessed through Internet/Web browser, for management of invoices, that includes the creation, expedition, archive, storage and printing of the invoices;
Integration with order and catalogue management, allowing the generation of invoice from the received order, which is ciphered and submitted to the purchaser. This Service includes, beyond the creation and expedition of the invoice, its storage, allowing to the supplier to search, visualize and print invoices;
End-user Solutions with differentiated degree of sophistication assure the processing, conversion and translation of the messages and its transmission in a safe way, through digital certification and signature, in processes of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
