In app and e-commerce development, electronic invoicing always occupies a place of honor.

Between constantly updated regulations and accountants who are not always prepared to absorb constant technological innovations, Having a trusted and updated software can become the winning card to save stress and unnecessary headaches.

Attention: This little guide is not a substitute for tax advice!

In fact, the first step to correctly configure electronic invoicing in an e-commerce is to understand how to behave with invoicing, as explained in this detailed guide.

In this article, however, we will only talk about theIntegrating an invoicing software with your ecommerce, for:

1. Improve administrative management
2. Speed ​​up the creation of the invoice document
3. Carry out invoicing in accordance with the law.

Electronic invoicing software vs. compilation software

Let's start with a distinction between:

1.  Invoice Compilation Software
2.  Electronic invoicing software.

To simplify, let's say that The most used electronic invoicing software by Italian e-commerce are mainly two: Fattura24 and FattureIncloud.

If you were already operating in physical commerce before your e-commerce, it is possible that you were already using one of these two very popular and very useful software. In fact, they allow you not only to issue electronic invoices, but also to carry out reporting, manage reporting, payment schedules...

However, those who manage an e-commerce know well that there are many useful functions, such as automatic compilation or recording of an order history, that these invoicing programs often do not allow you to manage in the best way.

Electronic Invoicing: How to Really Integrate It into Your E-commerce

You may have seen some online advertisements for plugins/apps/extensions that integrate with your e-commerce and allow you to make it easier to fill out invoices, or manage an order history, or create personal data automatically...

The functions are varied, but all aimed at simplifying the life of those who have to manage not only a large number of different orders and products, but also the correct management of electronic invoicing.

These are often very lightweight plugins that you can access directly from the ecommerce platform.

These programs then send the invoice to the actual invoicing software, whether Fattura24 or FattureinCloud, which in turn manages the sending to the SDL.

Benefits of an invoice preparation software for your e-commerce

In e-commerce invoicing, invoice compilation software is very convenient for:

• Automatically import orders received on the e-commerce into the invoicing program, whatever it is;
• Automatically create a new customer order entry in the customer database
• Integration of order, invoicing and product catalog, or inventory.

Take care of consult the technical details of the compilation program you choose, because it could make your life a lot easier.

Below we have collected some of the best compilation software, divided by e-commerce platform, thus facilitating those who have already created an e-commerce. 

If you haven't yet decided which platform is best suited to the needs of your online store:

1. See our article “How much does it cost to make an e-commerce site?".
2. If you already have Fattura24 or FattureinCloud, evaluate which functions would be useful to you in a compilation software
3. Check out our short guide below to get an idea of ​​the main features of compiler software.

Now let's get to the invoice compiling software and plugins!

1) Electronic invoicing for Shopify

If you use Fattureincloud: GetSync.

If you use Fattura24: Electronic Invoice Manager.

2) Electronic invoicing for Woocommerce

For FattureinCloud: plugin Socialcities.it.

For Fattura24: plugin Invoice24.

Note: To activate the Fattura24 plugin you need to have a Business or Enterprise account. This means that if you don't have a Business or Enterprise account yet, you can try it for a month for free, then download the plugin and decide if it's right for you.

3) Electronic invoicing for Magento 

For FattureinCloud: extension Magento Cloud Invoices Module + Electronic Invoicing.

For Fattura24: plugin Invoice24 (see above).

4) Electronic invoicing for Prestashop

For Prestashop we can make an exception to what was said above about invoicing software versus compilation software: here you can download the add-on directly Electronic Invoicing Module + Sending SDI, which allows you to directly manage the billing of your Prestashop account.

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