E-invoicing Austria
Billing the Austrian federal government? Three details decide it.
Invoices to Austrian federal offices have to be filed electronically – paper and PDF-by-email do not get paid. Nori builds ebInterface 6.1 and files it through the USP.
What you need
The three details that usually hold invoices up
Two of them only the office itself can give you. The third is public – and searchable in our directory.
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Order reference
Without a purchase order you enter the office's 3-character buyer group (EKG), e.g. K40. With one, its 10-digit number – plus an order position per line.
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Supplier number
Your 8-digit identifier in the federal vendor register, e.g. 50012345. The commissioning office issues it – ask them directly, nobody else may hand it out.
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USP access
Filing runs through the Austrian business service portal. Store the credentials in Nori once, and every invoice after that goes out with a click.
With Nori
Set it up on the customer once, then it repeats itself
Link the customer to their federal office and add the order reference and supplier number – from then on Nori prefills both on every new invoice.
FAQ
Questions about filing with the Austrian federal government
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Yes. Electronic filing applies to invoices to federal offices regardless of the amount. A PDF by email does not satisfy it – a structured format such as ebInterface is required.
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It is published in the official list on erechnung.gv.at and searchable in our directory. If your order carries a 10-digit purchase order number, use that instead of the buyer group.
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Ask the commissioning office. Neither erechnung.gv.at support nor the USP hotline may hand it out – it comes from that office's own vendor register.
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No. Provinces, cities and state-owned companies have their own rules and their own order-reference prefixes. This directory covers the federal offices.
Questions about filing with the authorities?
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