Sterling e-Invoicing
Features and benefits
Archiving
- Archives to specific country requirements
- Supports third-party archiving systems, and both on premise and on demand archive services
Audit and reporting
- Offers audit tools including a Web interface allowing human-readable display and signature revalidation
- Shows ongoing invoice integrity, and certificate validity at time of signing
- Reports available to multiple internal and external audiences including local tax authorities
Business processes
- Pre-defined business processes designed to support current and future electronic invoice requirements
- Supports both buyer and seller processes in a single solution
Certificate authority network
- Full integration and partnerships with Qualified Certificate issuers and authorized time-stamping authorities where required
- Wide range of advanced certificate options
- Registration authority (RA) capabilities for many certification authority partners
Compliance Map™
- Provides detailed, up-to-date compliance data from local law firms, tax advisors, and tax authorities
- Contains documentation of key compliance processes and legal requirements
- Allocates single (supplier country-compliant) or double (both supplier and buyer country-compliant) signatures based on country-specific requirements
- Includes end-to-end process analysis including domestic and cross-border flows
Data validation
- Verifies content according to business rules based on company and tax regulatory requirements
- Rejects incorrect invoices before they touch internal systems or go out to trading partners
Deployment options
- Choice of flexible deployment options (either on premise or on demand)
- Allows companies to optimize technology and resource requirements to best suit their needs
Signing and validation
- Logically and operationally separates supplier and buyer functions
- Applies signatures based on invoice origin and destination parameters
- Performs cryptographic verification and online status checking with certification authorities
- Supports double signatures, multiple signature and document formats
- Supports ‘on-behalf-of’ signing and validation, signing on-behalf-of suppliers and validating on-behalf-of customers
Standards
- Communication with the secure signature process server is based on client-side authenticated SSL
- Supports the following security protocols: CAdES, CMS, ISO 7816, LDAP, OCSP, PKCS #1/7/9/10/12/15, PKIX, S/MIME, PDF, SOAP, SSL, TLS, WSDL, WSS, XKMS, SML, XSLT, X.509
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