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On Saturday 28 March 2009 11:59, Henry Bremridge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:44:45AM +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > > On Saturday 28 March 2009 07:41, Simon Waters wrote: > > > Tom Potts wrote: > > > > I'm probably repeating myself here but... > > > > Does anyone know of OPEN xml standards for > > > > billing/invoicing/financial stuff so I can try and persuade people > > > > that I do transactions with to send/recieve this stuff and push/pull > > > > it stright from my various packages and and not have to go through > > > > billions of receipts - or worse print out Pointless Document Format > > > > invoices and then type them in again! Or failing that anyone want to > > > > help define some simple formats we can all use? > > <snip> > > > > Neil/Henry/others may be able to advise on other formats for more > > > financial stuff. > > > > There is a thing called XBRL but I cant find any examples of things like > > invoices or receipts. Xstensible Business REPORTING Language. > > What you want to look at is UK Taxonomy IFRS eg > http://www.xbrl.org/uk/TechGuidance I've been through almost all of them - nothing in there about billing, invoicing or receipts or any of that. Its obviously fine for telling the taxman what he needs to know but no good for communicating between companies and customers! I guess its what you'd expect from a Tax related spec - all in one direction! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html