Create ZUGFeRD Credit Notes Online for Free
The compliant way to take back or reduce an invoice you already sent
Invoice Details
Credit note number and dates
Seller (From)
Your company, as it appears on the credit note
Buyer (To)
Who receives the credit note
Line Items
Products and services, one per line. Totals update as you type.
Totals
Calculated automatically from your line items
| Category | Net Amount | Tax Rate | Tax Amount |
|---|
Output Settings
Include advanced properties in PDF
Adds an Electronic invoice details section with the identifiers, schemes and references the classic layout leaves out.
Language used for PDF labels and date formatting.
Output Settings
Make the invoice yours. Unlock with PremiumHow It Works
Three screens between the original invoice and its correction.
Parties and the Original Invoice
Enter seller and buyer exactly as on the invoice being corrected, then add that invoice's number and date.
List What You Are Crediting
Add the returned goods or reduced services with quantity, price, and VAT rate; the totals follow along.
Generate & Download
Check the summary and download the ZUGFeRD credit note as a PDF/A-3 with the CII XML embedded.
ZUGFeRD Credit Notes Without the Guesswork
German accounting treats a Gutschrift as its own document type with its own rules. The form below gets those details right for you.
A Real Gutschrift, Not a Minus Invoice
The XML carries UNTDID type code 381, which is what DATEV and other German systems look for to post the document as a credit instead of a receivable.
Linked to the Corrected Invoice
Number and date of the original invoice go into their own fields (BG-3), giving the buyer's accounts payable an unambiguous match.
19% and 7% VAT Recalculated Live
Pick the German VAT rate per credited line and watch the net totals, tax groups, and gross amount rebuild themselves.
Checked Like the Recipient Checks It
Before the download starts, the file runs through the EN 16931 schema and business rules, so the credit note survives the same scrutiny the invoice did.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions German businesses ask about ZUGFeRD credit notes.
Issuing e-invoices? You must archive them properly.
Since 2015, the GoBD, the tax office's rules for digital records, have applied to every business, freelancers included: digital invoices must be kept as the original file, unchanged, exportable and readable for the whole 8-year retention period. With the e-invoicing mandate a print no longer counts. Our archive takes care of it for you.
- Every invoice stored exactly as it arrived: XML, PDF or photo
- Locked against changes, so nothing can be altered afterwards
- A second copy in another German data centre
- Find any invoice by date and export it with an index for your tax advisor
- Team access: several team members can work in the same archive
- No ERP, no installation: right next to your e-invoicing tools
Let your PDFs become compliant e-invoices on their own.
Stop retyping supplier invoices. The assistant scans your PDF, works out its layout and hands back a validated ZUGFeRD file that satisfies XRechnung and the German e-invoicing mandate.
- OCR and AI read it for you
- Fields mapped to UN/CEFACT CII for you
- EN 16931 checks come built in
One toolkit for ZUGFeRD and XRechnung
Every German business has had to accept e-invoices since January 2025. Both formats are covered here.