UBL standard as a breakthrough for electronic invoicing

In this article Gerard Bottemanne and Marcel Wiedenbrugge talk about UBL standard as a new device for electronic invoicing. Nowadays more and more invoices are exchanged electronically. Currently PDF is undisputedly the most widely used format for the exchange (by email) of invoices as an attachment. Whether or not combined with scanning and recognizing of booking documents, electronically received invoices are processed automatically in the accounts as a booking proposal. The role of PDF, however, is increasingly replaced by UBL (Universal Business Language).