Why adopting eInvoicing should be part of your global growth strategy in FY2027

If you’re looking to build your export revenue, it makes sense to have this foundation technology in place first.

Is amping up export activity on the cards for your business in the upcoming financial year?

Given Australia is a relatively small market, it’s the obvious growth strategy for homegrown success stories that have exhausted their opportunities to expand here at home.

Making a good fist of it requires businesses to be organised on multiple fronts, including marketing, pricing, sales tax, distribution, aftersales support and, increasingly, eInvoicing.

The great e-invoicing adoption wave

While the last may not yet be standard business practice here in Australia, it’s fast becoming the norm in a growing number of overseas jurisdictions.

In Belgium and Poland, for example, eInvoicing became mandatory for business-to- business transactions in January and February this year respectively.

Come July, the United Arab Emirates will follow suit, followed by France in September and then Germany and Spain in January 2027.

Closer to home, the Kiwis have begun incentivising more businesses to adopt the practice. From January 2027, all large suppliers to the New Zealand government will be required to invoice electronically, or else find themselves out of the running for projects and contracts.

Against that backdrop, adding e-invoicing capability to your tech stack makes sound sense.

Selecting a solution to support your growth goals

While exporters in search of an eInvoicing solution are not short of options, it pays to choose carefully; selecting a platform that can accommodate your business’ operational needs now and into the future.

Adopting a unified eInvoicing strategy means minimal complexity and a lower cost of ownership. Instead of integrating separately with a host of different country-specific solutions, it’s simpler and cheaper to connect just once – to a single platform that can handle format transformation, digital signatures, schema validations, clearance submission, status management, Pan European Public Procurement Online (Peppol) routing and regulatory updates, while supporting a high volume transaction environment at scale.

Select a vendor which offers a single global API and coverage across the Peppol network and you’ll be able to forge ahead with ease, in more than 40 countries and jurisdictions where this is the current standard.

If you’re smart, you’ll partner with a supplier that has a demonstrated commitment to optimising its platform and safeguarding customer data. This reduces your risk exposure, particularly in jurisdictions such as the EU where data and privacy breaches can attract crushing seven and eight figure penalties.

Capitalising on the back-office benefits of new generation invoicing technology

As well as underpinning your export efforts, an eInvoicing solution can deliver significant back-office savings. That’s a boon for businesses in growth mode that are seeking to contain their costs while growing their international footprints.

By Deloitte Access Economics’ estimate, sellers and buyers share a savings of up to $20, each time an eInvoice replaces an invoice delivered by email. Multiply that figure by several dozen or hundred invoices a month and you’re looking at a sizeable sum saved.

The average Australian firm that adopts eInvoicing stands to realise around $970,000 in productivity gains annually, according to 2025 research from Avalara, in partnership with the Centre for Economics and Business Research.

There’s also evidence that eInvoicing shortens payment cycles, reduces fraud and tax fines by around 30 per cent and saves time to the tune of almost 40 minutes per invoice.

Building a strong foundation for export success in FY2027

eInvoicing is already standard business practice in many countries and jurisdictions around the world and it will soon be mandatory in more of them. Australian exporters that don’t keep up by deploying solutions that enable them to invoice overseas customers electronically will find it harder than it needs to be to establish and maintain a presence in potentially lucrative new markets.  Indeed, you may not physically be able to trade there without a solution and could be fined by the local tax authorities for non-compliance.

In reality today, eInvoicing is a must have, not a nice to have. If giving your enterprise its best shot at export success is a priority for FY2027, implementing a premium eInvoicing platform will help you get where you want to go.

Sagie Shaposhnykov is Tax Technology Solutions Manager at Avalara.

Last Updated on March 16, 2026 by Sagie Shaposhnykov