UsingQR – “Electronic” paper invoices using JSON and QR codes

Re:UsingQR – “Electronic” paper invoices using JSON and QR c... by megapatch on Saturday March 19, 2016 @07:32PM (#11321003)

It seems like a big step in the wrong direction. Sending invoices on paper should become a thing of the past. But even if you are sending invoices digitally, then choosing a common format would be the first problem. There are already several existing formats, from Edifact to XML based Oagis, with no winner in sight.

Rest assured that these petty JSON, vCard or the like ideas have little chance to work in real life, specifically if you need to compress invoices into the space limitations of QR codes... Real life B2B invoices are much more demanding.

When it comes to payment information, that is much simpler to solve. You don't even need to QR encode that, relatively simple forms with human readable numbers can be read by modern smartphone banking apps. I have two different installed (two different Swedish banks), works with most of the invoices I get home. The few that still come on paper, that is.

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Re:UsingQR – “Electronic” paper invoices using JSON and QR c... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Saturday March 19, 2016 @07:48PM (#11321054)

I wish there was some sort of financial/billing organization that could lay the law down and establish one of these as standards, but since billing is such a broad topic we may be lost on that front.

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