E-invoicing mandate — United States

A national network exists, but participation in business-to-business trade is voluntary — often alongside an obligation on public bodies to be able to receive e-invoices. Anyone who wants to invoice electronically here can; nobody has to.

The stages over time

  1. 7/17/2015

    United States · to public authorities in force unverified

    ⚠ There is no B2B invoicing mandate in the United States — no federal mandate, no central clearance, no tax reporting duty. What exists is directed at federal agencies and their suppliers: invoices to federal bodies run through the Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform. ⚠ That obligation sits in agency-specific procurement clauses rather than in a statute, and allows a case-by-case waiver where electronic submission would be unduly burdensome.

    Legal basis: OMB Memorandum M-15-19 · Last reviewed: 10/27/2026

Platforms and authorities

IPP (U.S. Treasury) · DBNAlliance · ANSI X12 810

What Invoiceflair can do — United States

Create and validate: Peppol

Stated limit: Invoiceflair creates, validates and reads formats. It is not a Peppol access point and not a clearing service — it does not perform transmission to an authority's platform.

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