Business Need

In several countries and industries, self-billing is a common business process where the purchaser creates and issues the invoice on behalf of the vendor. While Business Central supports standard sales and purchase e-document scenarios, there is currently no support for generating or handling electronic documents in self-billing scenarios.

Current Limitation

The current e-document functionality does not support scenarios where:

• A company settles the invoice on behalf of a vendor.
• An outgoing purchasing document must be created and transmitted to the vendor as part of a self-billing process.
• Electronic invoicing requirements must be fulfilled when the purchaser is responsible for invoice generation.

As a result, customers using self-billing processes cannot fully automate their legally required e-invoicing workflows through the standard e-document framework.

Requested Enhancement

Extend the Business Central e-document functionality to support self-billing scenarios, including:

• Generation of electronic invoices for self-billing transactions.
• Support for sending self-billing e-documents to vendors.
• Compliance with country-specific e-invoicing requirements where self-billing is permitted.
• Integration with the existing e-document framework and document exchange workflows.

Business Impact

Customers operating self-billing processes are currently required to implement custom developments or external solutions to comply with electronic invoicing regulations. Native support would reduce implementation costs, improve compliance, and enable broader adoption of the standard e-document functionality.

Expected Outcome

Users should be able to create, export, and exchange electronic self-billing documents through standard Business Central functionality in the same way they can manage other supported e-document scenarios.

Additional Notes

This is a functional enhancement request rather than a product defect. The standard e-document framework currently does not support self-billing on the vendor side, and native support would provide significant value for organizations that rely on this business process.