Create XRechnung Credit Notes Online for Free
Reverse or reduce an invoice to a public-sector buyer, Leitweg-ID included
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 |
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Output Settings
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Three steps from the original invoice to a valid XRechnung credit note.
Parties, Leitweg-ID, Invoice Reference
Enter seller and buyer, the buyer's Leitweg-ID, and the number and date of the invoice being corrected.
Add the Credited Lines
List what is being credited with quantities, prices, and 19% or 7% VAT; the totals and tax breakdown update as you type.
Download the XRechnung XML
Review the summary and download a validated XRechnung credit note, ready to submit to the buyer's portal.
XRechnung Credit Notes That Authorities Accept
German public-sector portals run the same strict checks on credit notes as on invoices. This form produces exactly what they expect.
Credit Note Type Code Set
The XML carries UNTDID 1001 type code 381, so the OZG-RE, the state portals, and comparable systems process the document as a credit note, not a rejected invoice.
Leitweg-ID Stays In
The buyer reference (BT-10) keeps its dedicated Leitweg-ID field: a credit note routes through the same authority address as the invoice it corrects.
Preceding Invoice Reference
Number and date of the corrected invoice (BG-3) have their own fields, the link public-sector accounts payable uses to match the credit.
German CIUS Rules Checked
The file is validated against EN 16931 plus the XRechnung business rules before download, the same rule set the portals enforce on receipt.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about XRechnung 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.