Shopify e-invoicing: there is no fully native, end-to-end app for it yet

What Shopify does by default

E-invoicing means sending a structured, machine-readable invoice through a government or interoperability network — Peppol in the EU, and country- specific formats elsewhere — not a PDF attached to an email. Shopify's order confirmation is neither: it's an HTML email, and the platform has no built-in path to a structured e-invoice format or network.

What to check

A merchant weighing whether Shopify could handle a mandatory e-invoicing requirement in their market was told plainly by another merchant: "there's no fully native, end-to-end Shopify e-invoicing app yet, and the gaps are real" — VAT and company-number capture at checkout, credit notes and corrections, per-country formats. Another, already selling B2B into the EU, called generating Peppol-compliant invoices "nearly impossible" because the VAT number couldn't even be pulled from the order. If e-invoicing applies to your market, ask your accountant whether it applies to you and by when, then check separately whether whatever produces your documents today can actually emit the required structured format — not just a PDF that looks like an invoice.

What goes wrong at month end

An e-invoicing requirement doesn't ask retroactively; it applies to orders as they happen. A gap found only when a regulator or a business customer rejects a document means reissuing a batch of orders under a deadline — and whether it applies to you is a question for your accountant, not this note.

Check your last month, free

Plain checks a month of paid orders against every invoice, receipt and credit note that actually went out, and names the gaps. One page a month: every order, every document, every gap.

Plain is a technical aide, not legal or tax advice; your accountant or tax authority decides.