Electronic business documents for the modern developer.
GOBL is an open-source schema, library, and database that simplifies the creation of invoices around the world.
Try the GOBL playgroundStaggering amounts of time are wasted dealing with inefficient paper documents and archaic electronic formats.
Businesses have to manually extract data from paper receipts and PDFs which don't contain structured data.
Standards like XML and Text formats don't reflect the way our programming languages store or transfer data.
It's hard to understand the rules, types of taxes, and general formats required in any given market.
Dealing with this on a global scale is just a nightmare!
Everything you need to simplify electronic business documents, starting with invoices.
- A JSON Schema
- Defines how to create Business Documents in JSON, the most pragmatic communication format that has ever existed: easy to read by humans and computers alike.
- A library and toolset
- Defines in code the structures and calculations required so that users can focus on just getting the basics right.
- A global tax database
- Contains local taxes and validation rules, designed to reach every corner of the world.