@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net
Post #2078286
2026-02-26 21:19 UTC
Electronc invoicing is like the most boring topic in the world and yet the amount of human toil that is going to be saved by governments mandating it is incredible
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@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net 2026-02-26 21:25
it’s incredible that in 2026 the vast majority of invoices are handled by hand typing or at best OCRing fucking PDFs and when things get complicated (e.g. payment and VAT in different currencies! very common in cross border scenarios!) this gets imeasurably more miserable because your software can’t find the exchange rate field or wants the exchange rate in the inverse form from their invoice gives you or inumerable other corner cases
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@privateger@plasmatrap.com 2026-02-26 21:27
@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net i was fascinated when I learned this was still mostly manual. the "cutting edge" solution $dayjob has right now is just doing OCR. great stuff