As the mandatory nature of Verifactu approaches again, B2Brouter has been working on the digitalization of invoices for 25 years. Now, the company has more than 250,000 international users, and has just opened a new office in Sabadell. Its next stage involves taking advantage of a transformation that is already sweeping across Europe: more and more countries are introducing mandatory electronic invoicing systems.
“We have a global vocation,” explains the company’s founder, Oriol Bausà. So much so that the company operates in more than 30 markets, including countries such as France, Belgium, Italy, and Germany, as well as New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates. It has more than fifty employees and has grown by 65%, a progress that has not stopped despite the postponement of the Spanish Verifactu calendar, which has been delayed until 2027.
“With less than a month before its entry into force, postponing the date generated great insecurity,” says Bausà. At B2Brouter, the announcement resulted in projects being put on hold and new hires being stopped. Some companies that had already made progress in their adaptation decided to continue, but others chose to wait until next year.
Given the possibility that a large number of companies decide to postpone the change until closer to the deadline, Bausà warns that a “bottleneck” could occur again. For this reason, B2Brouter works with other companies to demand fiscal measures that incentivize companies to advance in their adaptation.
Furthermore, according to Bausà, the change is still surrounded by a lack of knowledge and even, in some cases, distrust, in the face of a transformation process that goes beyond Verifactu, and which will then implement mandatory electronic invoicing between companies and professionals.
It is precisely in this scenario where B2Brouter wants to expand its role. The company is reinforcing the tool that allows other programs and platforms to connect with its services and integrate electronic invoicing into their own systems. The portal is the most visible part, but the technology that works behind the scenes allows companies and developers to use B2Brouter to adapt, in addition, to the requirements of different markets.
This ability to operate across borders is one of the company's main differentiating features. "A company that until now managed its invoices in PDF can switch to doing so electronically and use the same infrastructure to comply with the requirements of the different countries in which it operates," Bausà emphasizes: "Everything is moving in this direction."
The international market has been gaining weight, also boosted by the regulations that have come into force in Europe. Belgium, for example, launched the obligation of electronic invoicing in January —partially compensating for the slowdown in the Spanish market—, and Poland joined the map in February. Now, France and Portugal are presented as emerging markets, while B2Brouter is also studying new opportunities in Portugal and the Middle East.
This international impulse is also behind B2Brouter's entry into the Team.blue group, a European leader in digital services with more than 3 million client companies in Europe. The alliance, announced exactly one year ago, was reached to accelerate the growth of the Catalan company and its expansion throughout Europe.
Thus, the objective is to continue growing as countries deploy their own electronic invoicing models. "Everything portends very significant growth with the entry into force of laws in new countries," Bausà remarks. After 25 years of B2Brouter's drive to move towards electronic invoicing, the new regulatory wave propels the company as a platform with an international vocation that advances market by market, from Sabadell.