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Create a ZUGFeRD invoice

This demo shows the Facturexa.ZugferdCreator.dll in action.

Enter invoice header data and invoice lines and generate a ZUGFeRD XML file from them. The form is prefilled with an official example invoice; you can choose further examples below. Depending on the selected profile, exactly the fields supported by that profile are shown (MINIMUM < BASIC WL < BASIC < COMFORT/XRECHNUNG < EXTENDED).

🔒 Entered data is only processed in memory and is not stored (Privacy policy).

1 Invoice data

2 Code preview

3 ZUGFeRD file

4 ZUGFeRD validation

Example invoice (ZUGFeRD 2.5.2)

The examples are taken unchanged from FeRD's ZUGFeRD 2.5.2 package (Apache License 2.0). Switching replaces all entries in the form with the selected example.

Invoice data

ZUGFeRD profile

Invoice number (BT-1)

Invoice date (BT-2)

Please enter a date in the format DD.MM.YYYY.

Document type (BT-3)

Currency (BT-5)

Actual delivery date (BT-72)

Please enter a date in the format DD.MM.YYYY.

Billing period from (BT-73)

Please enter a date in the format DD.MM.YYYY.

Billing period to (BT-74)

Please enter a date in the format DD.MM.YYYY.

Seller

Name (BT-27)

Street (BT-35)

Address line 2 (BT-36)

PLZ (BT-38)

City (BT-37)

Country (BT-40)

Region (BT-39)

VAT ID (BT-31)

Tax number (BT-32)

Seller ID

Global ID scheme (BT-29)

Global ID

Legal registration ID (BT-30)

Scheme of the legal registration ID (BT-30-1)

Registered company name (BT-28)

Email/electronic address (BT-34)

Address scheme

Additional legal information (BT-33)

Contact person (BT-41)

Department (instead of name)

Only without a contact name: name and department together are not allowed (CII-SR-465); the name takes precedence.

Contact phone (BT-42)

Contact email (BT-43)

Contact fax

Buyer

Name (BT-44)

Street (BT-50)

Address line 2 (BT-51)

PLZ (BT-53)

City (BT-52)

Country (BT-55)

Region (BT-54)

VAT ID (BT-48)

Buyer reference / Leitweg-ID (BT-10)

Purchase order reference (BT-13)

Buyer ID

Global ID scheme (BT-46-0)

Global ID

Legal registration ID (BT-47)

Scheme of the legal registration ID (BT-47-1)

Registered company name (BT-45)

Email/electronic address (BT-49)

Address scheme

Additional legal information (BT-33)

Contact person (BT-56)

Department (instead of name)

Only without a contact name: name and department together are not allowed (CII-SR-466); the name takes precedence.

Contact phone (BT-57)

Contact email (BT-58)

Contact fax

Delivery address (BG-15, if different from buyer)

Name

Street

Address line 2

PLZ

City

Country

Region

Global ID scheme

Global ID

Different payee (BG-10)

Name

Registered company name

Global ID scheme

Global ID

Seller tax representative (BG-11)

Name

Street

VAT ID (BT-63)

PLZ

City

Country

Payment details

Due date (BT-9)

Please enter a date in the format DD.MM.YYYY.

Payment terms (BT-20)

Payment means (BT-81)

IBAN (BT-84)

SEPA creditor ID (BT-90)

BIC (BT-86)

Account holder (BT-85)

Remittance information (BT-83)

Payment means text (BT-82)

SEPA mandate reference (BT-89)

Payment card ID (BT-87)

Cardholder (BT-88)

Debited IBAN (BT-91, direct debit)

Debited account holder

Invoice notes (BG-1)

Subject code (BT-21)	Note (BT-22)
	Rechnung gemäß Bestellung vom 01.03.2026.
	Geschäftsführer: Hans Muster
	Handelsregisternummer: H A 123
	ZUGFeRD vers 2.5.0 EN16931 (Comfort)

Further references

Contract reference (BT-12)

Sales order reference (BT-14)

Project ID (BT-11)

Project name

Buyer accounting reference (BT-19)

Despatch advice reference (BT-16)

Despatch advice date

Please enter a date in the format DD.MM.YYYY.

Receiving advice reference (BT-15)

Receiving advice date

Please enter a date in the format DD.MM.YYYY.

Additional supporting documents (BG-24)

ID	Name	Type code	Date

Documents & other

Preceding invoice (BT-25, for corrections)

Preceding invoice date (BT-26)

Please enter a date in the format DD.MM.YYYY.

Rounding (BT-114)

Already paid (BT-113)

Document-level allowances/charges (BG-20/BG-21)

Type	Reason	Reason code	Basis	%	Amount	Tax rate	Tax cat.

Exemption reasons per tax group (BG-23)

The tax amounts are calculated from the lines. Here, only enter the exemption reason and code per category and rate (required e.g. for exempt, reverse charge, intra-community supply and export); the basis is not used.

Basis	%	Category	Type	Exemption reason	Reason code

Invoice lines

Name (BT-153)

Quantity (BT-129)

Unit

Unit price (BT-146)

Tax rate % (BT-152)

Tax cat. (BT-151)

Discount % (BT-138)

Note (BT-127)

Manual totals (MINIMUM/BASIC WL only)

According to the specification, MINIMUM and BASIC WL contain no individual invoice lines — only header data and totals. Enter the net total and at least one tax line instead.

Net total (BT-106/BT-109)

Tax lines (BG-23)

Basis	%	Category	Type	Exemption reason	Reason code

Generated C# code

This is how the Facturexa library builds the invoice object (EInvoice) from your input and writes it as ZUGFeRD XML.

C# – Erstellen.cs

Create a ZUGFeRD invoice

Invoice data

Seller

Buyer

Delivery address (BG-15, if different from buyer)

Different payee (BG-10)

Seller tax representative (BG-11)

Payment details

Invoice notes (BG-1)

Further references

Additional supporting documents (BG-24)

Documents & other

Document-level allowances/charges (BG-20/BG-21)

Exemption reasons per tax group (BG-23)

Invoice lines

Manual totals (MINIMUM/BASIC WL only)

Tax lines (BG-23)

Generated C# code

ZUGFeRD validation

Integrate this invoice creation DLL into your own software