Description (short summary):
The European e-Business Lab (EBL) is an initiative launched by successful organisations who are committed to sharing and improving e-Business best practices, adoption, standardisation and innovation. Business needs are gathered and monitored aiming to improve the current electronic business ecosystem and work closely with European institutions, the public sector, solution and service providers to make sure that SME requirements are taken into consideration.

For the first e-Business Guide, an accelerating trend has been chosen to be addressed that will impact every company in Europe over the next few years. The trend is the automation of the invoicing process and is known as "e-Invoicing".

The intent of this Guide is to provide SMEs (and all organisations) with unbiased information and insight regarding the different aspects of e-Invoicing and practical guidance on how to begin. The Guide combines business, technical, practical, legal and compliance information in a way that interested SMEs can be armed with knowledge when making their own independent decisions to chart the best way forward for their business.