Tags: english, standard
Date: 2013-02-12 10:30
-Here in Norway, electronic invoices are spreading, and the solution
-promoted by the Norwegian government is not really decentralised and
-require that invoices are sent through one of the approved
+Here in Norway, electronic invoices are spreading, and the
+<a href="http://www.anskaffelser.no/e-handel/faktura">solution promoted
+by the Norwegian government</a> require that invoices are sent through
+one of the approved facilitators, and it is not possible to send
+electronic invoices without an agreement with one of these
facilitators. This seem like a needless limitation to be able to
transfer invoice information between buyers and sellers. My preferred
solution would be to just transfer the invoice information directly
between seller and buyer, for example using SMTP, or some HTTP based
protocol like REST or SOAP. But this might also be overkill, as the
-"electronic" information can be transfered using paper invoices too,
+"electronic" information can be transferred using paper invoices too,
using a simple bar code. My bar code encoding of choice would be QR
codes, as this encoding can be read by any smart phone out there. The
content of the code could be anything, but I would go with