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Create Order-X Purchase Orders Online for Free

The ZUGFeRD family's order format: one PDF your supplier can read and their system can import

Order Details

Order number, dates and when you need the goods

Buyer (Ordering Party)

Your company, placing the order

Seller (Supplier)

The supplier you are ordering from

Line Items

Products and services, one per line. Totals update as you type.

Totals

Calculated automatically from your line items

Tax Breakdown
Category Net Amount Tax Rate Tax Amount
Total (Net)
Total (VAT)
Grand Total
Add to this order

Output Settings

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Meets the standards EN 16931 ZUGFeRD / Factur-X XRechnung KoSIT GoBD Archive PDF/A-3

How It Works

Three screens between you and a compliant digital purchase order.

Step 1

You and Your Supplier

Enter your company as the ordering party and the supplier you are buying from, plus a delivery date if one matters.

Step 2

List What You Are Ordering

Add the items with quantities, unit prices, and VAT rates; the order total follows along.

Step 3

Generate & Download

Check the summary and download the finished Order-X file, a PDF/A-3 carrying the order XML.

The ZUGFeRD Principle, Applied to Ordering

What ZUGFeRD did for invoices, Order-X does for purchase orders: a normal-looking PDF with machine-readable data inside.

One File, Two Audiences

Your supplier reads the PDF/A-3; their ERP reads the order-x.xml embedded inside it. Nobody retypes anything.

Checked Before It Leaves Your Browser

The file runs through the official Order-X 1.0 schema and business rules before the download starts, so it imports cleanly on the other side.

German VAT Rates Built In

Pick 19%, 7%, or exempt per ordered line and watch the net totals, tax groups, and order total keep themselves consistent.

Delivery Date as Structured Data

The requested delivery date is written into the order XML itself, so the supplier's system schedules it rather than someone reading it off a printout.

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions German businesses ask about Order-X.

Order-X is the hybrid purchase-order standard from FeRD, the same German forum that publishes ZUGFeRD, created jointly with France's FNFE-MPE. Technically it works exactly like a ZUGFeRD invoice: a readable PDF/A-3 with structured UN/CEFACT XML inside, except the XML describes an order rather than an invoice.
They are siblings from the same publisher. ZUGFeRD covers the invoice side of a transaction, Order-X the ordering side, and the two are designed to work together: order out, invoice back, both as hybrid PDFs. Order-X uses one name in Germany and France alike.
Everyone, at their own level: a supplier without special software opens the PDF like any order document, while an ERP with Order-X support imports the embedded XML directly. Email is a perfectly valid transport, no network or portal involved.
COMFORT. Order-X defines BASIC, COMFORT, and EXTENDED, and COMFORT carries everything a normal purchase order needs. Validation against the official Order-X 1.0 rule set for the profile runs before every download.
Yes. Drop in a quote, an earlier order, or an invoice (PDF or XML) and the AI carries the parties and items across. Change the quantities, hit generate.
Free within the daily allowance, exactly like the invoice generators. Premium lifts the limits and adds drafts.
GoBD Archive

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
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PDF → ZUGFeRD

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
Convert a PDF invoice
INVOICE.PDF
<rsm:CrossIndustryInvoice>
<ram:ID>INV-0042</ram:ID>
<ram:IssueDateTime>2026-05-08
<ram:SellerTradeParty>
…
<ram:GrandTotalAmount>1240.00
</rsm:CrossIndustryInvoice>
Passed EN 16931 No errors · no warnings
Built for the German mandate

One toolkit for ZUGFeRD and XRechnung

Every German business has had to accept e-invoices since January 2025. Both formats are covered here.

ZUGFeRD or XRechnung? Let the assistant pick the tool Tell the chat what you need: it converts, checks, builds, and reads out German e-invoices. Open assistant

Create

Fill one form, get a ZUGFeRD PDF or an XRechnung with Leitweg-ID
Create ZUGFeRD PDF ZUGFeRD PDF The guided form turns your details into a ZUGFeRD or XRechnung invoice. Create XRechnung XRechnung Generate a valid XRechnung with Leitweg-ID, ready for public-sector buyers. Create Order-X Order-X PDF Create an Order-X order file: the ZUGFeRD hybrid principle applied to purchase orders. ZUGFeRD Credit Note ZUGFeRD PDF Cancel or correct an e-invoice you already sent with a ZUGFeRD credit note. XRechnung Credit Note XRechnung Create an XRechnung credit note with Leitweg-ID for public-sector buyers.

Check & repair

Test against EN 16931 and the XRechnung CIUS, then fix what a buyer rejected
Validate ZUGFeRD ZUGFeRD PDF Run EN 16931 checks on your ZUGFeRD invoices before DATEV or your customer does. Validate XRechnung XRechnung Check XRechnung XML against EN 16931 and the German CIUS rules. Validate Order-X Order-X Run incoming and outgoing Order-X orders through the official Order-X 1.0 checks. Edit ZUGFeRD Invoice ZUGFeRD PDF Repair a refused or broken invoice: upload it, correct the fields, and get a valid file back. Edit XRechnung XRechnung Open an XRechnung as a form, fix the Leitweg-ID or any rejected field, and download a valid file.

Convert

Move an invoice between PDF, CII, UBL and XRechnung
PDF to ZUGFeRD PDF ZUGFeRD Any PDF, Word, or Excel invoice goes in; a ZUGFeRD or XRechnung file comes out. PDF to XRechnung PDF XRechnung Convert a PDF invoice to a valid XRechnung with Leitweg-ID for public-sector buyers. CII to ZUGFeRD CII ZUGFeRD Package existing CII XML as a ZUGFeRD PDF/A-3 hybrid invoice. Embed XML to PDF CII PDF ZUGFeRD Marry a PDF and its CII XML into one ZUGFeRD-compliant hybrid invoice. CII to UBL CII UBL Transform a CII invoice into UBL XML, the syntax most Peppol networks expect. UBL to CII UBL CII Map a UBL invoice to UN/CEFACT CII XML, ready to embed in ZUGFeRD or Factur-X. XRechnung to PDF XRechnung PDF See any CII, UBL, or XRechnung XML as a tidy, printable PDF.

Open & extract

Open a file, see what is inside it, and take the data with you
Extract XML PDF CII Pull structured XML straight out of any PDF invoice with AI-driven OCR. Extract Attachments ZUGFeRD XRechnung Pull every embedded file out of a ZUGFeRD or XRechnung invoice as a ZIP. XRechnung Viewer XRechnung CII UBL Open e-invoice XML in your browser and read it like a paper invoice. ZUGFeRD Viewer ZUGFeRD PDF Open a ZUGFeRD PDF and read the embedded invoice data your software books.

Look up & automate

Check who you are invoicing, or move the whole flow to an API
Check VAT Number Check any EU VAT number against VIES and get the customer's Peppol address. Developer API, MCP and automation Automate invoice generation and validation end to end.
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