E-invoicing in India will be a big move, due to the volume of business transactions undertaken every day, as well as the plethora of different, non-standardised formats used in invoice generation. The main objective is to enable interoperability across the entire GST eco-system i.e. an e-invoice generated by one software should be capable of being read by any other software. Basically, through machine readability, an invoice can be uniformly-interpreted.
This document aims to explain the operational procedure on how to use offline and online tool to generate the e-invoices. This document is intended for registered taxpayers under GST, who are the main stakeholders of einvoice system under GST.
The present document is an attempt to explain the concept of e-invoice, how it operates and basics of standards. It is expected that the document will be useful for the taxpayers, tax consultants and the software companies to adopt the designed standard.
1.3 Scope
The scope of this document covers:
Explaining the features of the e-invoice system.
Activities of various stake holders.
Registration for the e-invoice system.
Processes involved in generation of web based e-invoices.
Enabling the various modes of the e-invoice generation.
Managing the sub-users by the stake holders.
Using online tool to generate e-invoices
Process of uploading the generation of e-invoices.
1.4 URL or Web site address
https://einvoice1.gst.gov.in/
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