Deployment of E-invoice in Croatia

Deployment of e-Invoice infrastructure promises great savings in business transactions costs. But, due to slow transition from socialist economy, Croatia has just begun planning deployment of e-Invoice infrastructure in accordance with recently released national strategy for development of e-Business. Unfortunately, existence of globally competing standards makes decision making much harder. Technical sophistication of ebXML standard hasn't prevailed in struggle for global dominance with much broadly implemented technology of web services. Some compromise will therefore be necessary. Paper presents overview of different standards considered as candidates for deployment of e-Invoice infrastructure in Croatia, as well as details regarding particularities of Croatia's legal and business environment.