📄 ZUGFeRD Workflow for Small Businesses

🛠️ A seamless workflow to create compliant ZUGFeRD e-invoices – directly from Word, Excel, or any software. Tailored for freelancers, micro-businesses, and solo entrepreneurs.

🧾 What Is a ZUGFeRD Invoice?

ZUGFeRD (Central User Guide of the Forum for Electronic Invoicing Germany) is a hybrid format that combines visual and machine-readable layers:

  • ✅ A human-readable PDF/A-3 document
  • ✅ Embedded XML with structured invoice data (EN 16931 standard)

⚙️ The ZUGFeRD Workflow – Without ERP Systems

Our step-by-step workflow helps you automate e-invoice generation without investing in costly ERP software:

ZUGFeRD Workflow – Small Business

  1. 📝 Create your invoice as usual (Word, Excel, billing software)
  2. 🖨️ Print to 7-PDF Printer Professional using PDF/A-3 settings
  3. 🤖 Let the 7-PDF Invoice Extractor analyze and extract invoice data
  4. 📎 The Attach Tool embeds the generated XML into the PDF
  5. 📤 Send or upload the final PDF – now a compliant e-invoice

✅ Benefits of the 7-PDF Workflow

  • ✔️ Zero ERP integration required – 100% standalone
  • ✔️ Works locally – no cloud dependency, no data leakage
  • ✔️ Fully ZUGFeRD-compliant (Profile EN 16931 – Comfort)
  • ✔️ Choose between one-time license or monthly plan
  • ✔️ Optional email dispatch via Mailer PlugIn
  • ✔️ Ideal for public sector invoicing or mandatory e-invoice environments
✅ Start the ZUGFeRD Workflow Today

🌐 Prefer a Hosted Workflow?

If you don't want to install tools, use our ready-to-go online solution:

  • 📎 Upload your PDF invoice
  • 🧠 AI-powered data extraction
  • 📄 Download your final ZUGFeRD-compliant invoice

➡️ Try the Online Workflow

🔐 Data Protection & Reliability

  • 🇩🇪 Hosted in Germany – full GDPR compliance
  • ❌ No invoice data stored after processing
  • ✔️ Secure SSL-encrypted transfers
  • 👨‍💼 Direct support by the developer team

PDF Printer – Setup & Workflow Screens

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PDF Printer - Screenshots

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