The rules of the General Tax Directorate (DGI), which requires companies passage to a system of electronic invoicing and tax documents replace paper operations in Electronic Tax Receipts (CFE) opened a niche market for companies software, which, attentive to new business, created their own systems and offer services to help its customers throughout the transition process, as well as adapting to each category. At first, DGI summoned only to large companies to move to the new system, but the 2015 is the turn of SMEs-most of uruguayas- companies, which generally do not have technical departments and must hire third parties . So far 1,173 firms are already working with CFE, according to data provided by the DGI and the July 1 deadline for a new batch of between 700 and 1,000 companies to join.
“is a before and after in business management, transforming the way we communicate and do business with their customers “Mario Celano Meyer, founder and director of Zetasoftware
Something for everyone
The software companies specializing in electronic invoicing offer different products and services, depending on the needs of those who hire them. Generally they divided into those who are in house-a software installed in the computers of the company and a maintenance annually or in cloud (cloud) solution, where it is offered to the client to use the platform of the developer is charged , manage your bills on the network and are charged for each invoice. The company Memory, for example, offers a complete solution: from the paperwork and approval of the company before the DGI to training and system implementation with a single cost ranging from $ 60 billion to $ 80 billion, he told its director, Roni Lieberman. In this case it is a software that is installed on the computers of the company. They also offer just the installation of the system at a cost of $ 30 billion.
The Datalogic companies, Bit Systems and Zetasoftware are others that have billing services. The latter, for example, offers software for $ 48 000 plus VAT which includes a training package for 12 hours. In the course of the year ZetaLibra Online implement the system in the cloud to those who require it.
31,688,898 electronic invoices have been issued since the process began until June 10 this year, according to the DGI.
Reinventing
Printing Garino Brothers, which has more than 90 years in the market and makes 17 has computer services, it must aggiornamiento to new times not to lose customers. In addition to continuing printing paper invoices, it provides a billing system for those who require it. “We continue printing many bills in our graphic part because there are many companies that have not been mentioned and that are far from thinking about it. We have the two businesses,” says the marketing manager of the company, Diego Garcia. “This conversion he had to do in 2012 because we thought otherwise we would lose a market segment. We compensate developing an electronic billing system and ensure the transfer paper customers, and promote our solution,” he added. Garino system offers a cloud (cloud); it is a platform that is installed on your servers and companies can access issue and receive invoices by a user. In this case, unlike software solutions installed in the company, is also the service charges for outgoing invoice. “For SMEs which do not have hardware is the best choice, because in addition can connect and issue invoices from any device, anywhere,” said Garcia.
10,000 companies enter This system, in batches of 700 to 1,000 with difference of up to six months. It was begun by the biggest ones and this year will reach SMEs.
We are not Memory
Memory The company appealed again to the members of the radio program Second ball FM Ocean, to promote their service software. The Cardinal agency, which won a Golden Bell with previous advertising, called “Four opinólogos and one who knows,” he continues in the same line with the new “opinólogos SA”. Fabregat, Cotelo and Piñeyrúa are the directors of the company that founded hilarious from what they learned in Memory in 2014. They regard themselves as “the company that learned of Memory and cut myself.” They offer a telephone number where they are served by an answering recorded by the protagonists of the campaign. From that base are invited to communicate with Memory where they will be statistics quite evident by Mariano Lopez, the “serious opinólogos” I continue in the business.
$ 890 billion is the approximate amount in pesos of all electronic vouchers issued since the scheme began in 2012. We are not memory
Opportunities that arose in the Chilean experience
10 years of implementation, new business emerged as invoice discounting and advertising
The corporate CEO Exiis Chile, Dario Castex , he told Café & amp; Business how the electronic invoicing system works in your country to have implemented 10 years and said about the prospects in Uruguay. According Castex, once all small, medium and large companies began to work with this system arose parallel businesses, such as electronic bill discounts.
“The big problem for SMEs in Chile was that the big companies that bought their produce were paid just 120 days, which led to a change in the law was that the large buyer has a deadline for electronically approve the bill, because otherwise you can not use the tax credit VAT. There were many medium and small bills and they had accepted a business for banks and finance companies generated, “he said. Today, the owner of the company no longer has to wait 120 days, but the bank takes your bill electronically, and in five or six days paid at a rate of 1% per month, then charged to large company usually reliable financially. “Came an unexpected benefit because there are millions of invoices available. It is business for the bank and for the boy, who can have the money in no time. All small companies have cash problem because large suppliers are slow to pay and have to you pay salaries, “he said.
On the other hand, the manager told Exiis a new niche for advertising opened. “When bill now can promote products. Not only send the bill but can go with advertising and is the best that is variable messages are changing,” said Castex.
There are also benefits for the buyer, instead of receiving a paper invoice is sent by e-mail, or you can enter the website of the company where you bought it, identify, download and print, if desired.
From the point of view of software vendors and billing service, as is the case in Chile and Uruguay Exiis, business was also modified. “We became something like the electric bill and phone, because we spent to charge the software, as is the case in Uruguay today, charging for document issued and received. The rent is variable, depending on what factures. If invoices lot, pay a lot, and if some bills, pay little, “said Castex.
He recalled that the system sold in Uruguay is generally in house, which means that the license is sold, installed and an annual maintenance charge. In Chile there is no longer that model bills are in the cloud and administers who provides the service. For Exiis manager in the future it will be the same in Uruguay. “They’re going to make quite rapid tone when they see the benefit that does this, which is tremendous, since it is a commercial, operational and financial level,” he said.
In Chile, Exiis has about 300 customers, 250 of which use the electronic billing system. In Uruguay has 20 customers using its system of corporate governance that are slowly incorporating electronic billing platafoma
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