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

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Order Details

Buyer (Ordering Party)

Seller (Supplier)

Provide at least one of Legal ID or Tax ID / VAT for the seller

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.

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.

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.
All the Tools You Need

The full toolkit, all in one place

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AI Assistant

Tell the chat what you need: it converts, checks, builds, and reads out German e-invoices.

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PDF to ZUGFeRD

Any PDF, Word, or Excel invoice goes in; a ZUGFeRD or XRechnung file comes out.

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Create ZUGFeRD PDF

The guided wizard turns your details into a ZUGFeRD or XRechnung invoice.

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Create XRechnung

Generate a valid XRechnung with Leitweg-ID, ready for public-sector buyers.

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ZUGFeRD Credit Note

Cancel or correct an e-invoice you already sent with a ZUGFeRD credit note.

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XRechnung Credit Note

Create an XRechnung credit note with Leitweg-ID for public-sector buyers.

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Create Order-X

Create an Order-X order file: the ZUGFeRD hybrid principle applied to purchase orders.

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Validate ZUGFeRD

Run EN 16931 checks on your ZUGFeRD invoices before DATEV or your customer does.

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Validate XRechnung

Check XRechnung XML against EN 16931 and the German CIUS rules.

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Validate Order-X

Run incoming and outgoing Order-X orders through the official Order-X 1.0 checks.

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Extract XML

Pull structured XML straight out of any PDF invoice with AI-driven OCR.

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Extract Attachments

Pull every embedded file out of a ZUGFeRD or XRechnung invoice as a ZIP.

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Embed XML to PDF

Marry a PDF and its CII XML into one ZUGFeRD-compliant hybrid invoice.

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CII to ZUGFeRD

Package existing CII XML as a ZUGFeRD PDF/A-3 hybrid invoice.

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CII to UBL

Transform a CII invoice into UBL XML, the syntax most Peppol networks expect.

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UBL to CII

Map a UBL invoice to UN/CEFACT CII XML, ready to embed in ZUGFeRD or Factur-X.

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XRechnung to PDF

See any CII, UBL, or XRechnung XML as a tidy, printable PDF.

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XRechnung Viewer

Open e-invoice XML in your browser and read it like a paper invoice.

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e-Invoice Automation

Automate invoice generation, validation and Peppol delivery end to end.

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