ZUGFeRD invoice generator
Fill in the form and download a ZUGFeRD e-invoice in the EN 16931 format German law accepts: an ordinary PDF that carries the invoice data as XML (the same standard as Factur-X). For freelancers and small businesses, no software to install.
What you get, and what you don’t
- The file: a PDF/A-3 you can open like any PDF, with the invoice data embedded as EN 16931 XML (Factur-X 1.0, which is ZUGFeRD 2.x in the EN16931 profile). Our tests check the file with the open-source validator Mustang, and we publish a run with its report.
- Germany: from 1 January 2027, businesses with more than €800,000 turnover the year before must send e-invoices to other businesses in Germany; from 1 January 2028, all businesses, with a few exceptions. Sending the file by email is fine. See the Germany guide.
- Small businesses under § 19 UStG: you never have to send e-invoices; your invoices may always be ordinary ones (§ 34a UStDV). You may send an e-invoice if your customer agrees. Tick the box in the form and you get both choices. Inside the file we mark § 19 invoices as exempt from VAT (category E) with the § 19 note as the reason. No official text says how to code it, so that is our reading of the EN 16931 standard; the validator accepts it.
- France: the file has to go through your approved platform. See the France guide.
- What we don’t do: pagenull doesn’t send the invoice, receive invoices or archive them, and it doesn’t make XRechnung or UBL files. Keep every invoice yourself for the years the law requires: we store nothing, so we can’t give you a copy later.
- Price: the preview is free. Each download counts as one render on your pagenull account, and the free plan has 100 a month.
Developers can make the same file from JSON with the API: see the Factur-X and ZUGFeRD guide.