The History of E-invoicing

Since the early 1970’s business have used their own individual electronic systems to exchange invoice and purchase order information. These transactions have generally been in an electronic data interchange, or EDI, format. In 1975 the Transportation Data Coordinating Committee (TDCC) completed a set of industry standards that any company could adopt for the purposes of exchanging transactional information with their trading partner. These standards evolved into what current industry standard for electronic data interchange, ANSI X12. (EDI-Guid, 2005).

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