Swiss QR invoice

NEW V3.15 The payment with the ESR payment slip is very common in Switzerland and is already provided by SecuTix. However, the ESR is intended to be replaced by the new Swiss QR invoice and won't be valid anymore after the 30th of September 2022. From now on, you can migrate to the Swiss QR invoice and benefit from following advantages:

• Get more detailed payment information in electronic form, since the QR code contains more information than the coding line of the ESR slip
• QR codes are easier to scan, thus reducing the error rate
• QR invoices may be printed on standard blank paper

Solution

Documents

Following the TicketBAI regulation, a TBAI identifier and a QR code are displayed at the bottom of the order summary and order receipt. The QR code encodes a URL redirecting to the tax authorities' fiscal system, allowing to check that the order has been properly signed and sent to the fiscal authorities.

In addition to this, each duplicate is clearly marked as such. In case of order summary, a duplicate watermark is displayed.

In case of order receipt, duplicate is printed.

Either an order summary or an order receipt must be generated systematically for each order so that the tax authorities may check the order by scanning the QR code displayed on the document. However, the order is signed independently of the document generation. As a result:

• You can display the order receipt and the order summary. The order will be signed exactly once and both documents will display the same QR code.
• If you forgot to print and hand over a document to the end customer, you can always print it later.

Restricted operations after order closure

The interface to the TicketBAI system (defined by the fiscal authorities) allows mainly to create new orders and to cancel them. Modification is only possible in very specific cases that are listed exhaustively. As a result, in order to be able to send the appropriate information to the fiscal authorities, all actions modifying partially an order, like partial refunds and exchanges, must be avoided. SecuTix helps you in this task by performing following checks:

• The box office doesn't allow neither partial refunds nor exchanges
• The batch to cancel a single performance or product will only refund orders that don't contain any other performance or product
• The on-line self exchange features are disabled

Getting started

Set-up to be performed by the service team

Ask the service team to enable the QR invoice feature. The service team will perform following actions:

• Set the feature flag PRINTING_SWISS_QR_CODE_ON_BVR
  
• Set the following parameters concerning the QR code in the document parameter section
  
  • Set BVR_BARCODE_POS_X to 68
  • Set BVR_BARCODE_POS_Y to 43
  • Set BVR_BARCODE_POS_SIZE to 46

Documents

Document type

Create a new document type belonging to document class Summary with ISR. The document must have following characteristics:

Document template

A document template is provided for each language supported by the QR invoice:

• fr: French
• en: English
• de: German
• it: Italian

These templates are examples that we recommend you to use to build your own customised document template.

Order summary

Please add following information to your order summary template:

Invoice number:

{#if($document.order.invoiceNumber)}Invoice number: {$document.order.invoiceNumber}
{#else}Invoice number: Not available
{#end}

Invoice date:

Invoice date: {$document.order.orderCreationDate}

TBAI identifier and QR code:

{#if($document.order.externalIdentifier)}

      {$document.order.externalIdentifier}
{#else}TBAI identifier not available

QR code not available
{#end}

A complete example of document template in English and Spanish is provided below

Order receipt

Enable the display of the TicketBAI informations

#set($showKubibai = true)

Display if the document is a duplicate or not:

#if($showKubibai == true)

 #display($orderReceipt.documentType, 17, 'LEFT')#if($orderReceipt.solutionVersion.length() > 0) #display($orderReceipt.solutionVersion, 15, 'LEFT')#end

 #if($orderReceipt.isDuplicate == true)#set($duplicataStr = "DUPLICATE") #else #set($duplicataStr = 'ORIGINAL') #end  

 #display("Nb impressions: ", 18, 'LEFT')#display($duplicataStr,12, 'LEFT')

#end 

Display TBAI identifier and QR code

#if($showKubibai == true)
#if($orderReceipt.fiscalSignatureRestitutionStr.length() > 7)

#display($orderReceipt.fiscalSignatureRestitutionStr.substring(0, 32), 32, 'LEFT') 
    
#display($orderReceipt.fiscalSignatureRestitutionStr.substring(32, $orderReceipt.fiscalSignatureRestitutionStr.length()), 32, 'LEFT')
#else 
#display('TBAI identifier not available', 32, 'LEFT')
#end  

#if($orderReceipt.fiscalSignatureRestitution.length() > 0)
<QR>$orderReceipt.fiscalSignatureRestitution|6|CENTER<QR>
#else 
#display('QR code not available', 32, 'LEFT')
#end  
#end 

A complete example of document template in English and Spanish is provided below

New interface

Create a new interface of type external manager and sub-type KUBIBAI plugin

Set the following parameters

New function schedule

The schedule is only needed to check that the information have been stored successfully in TicketBAI and to recall KubiBAI in case of failures.

Schedule the Order recovery function belonging to the interface created previously with following parameters:

• It's recommended to use an automatic schedule, for example once per day
• Enter a date in the Date from field. The date has to be in the recent past. You should update this field from time to time, especially in case of heavy sales.
• You can ignore the File to upload parameter.