An electronic supplier invoice is more than just a compliance checkbox: it turns every purchase into actionable data to steer your business, as soon as it arrives in DoliPlus:

• A margin that truly includes your shipping and customs costs
• Your non-production expenses (rent, subscriptions, overheads) finally tracked just like everything else
• A profit and loss statement and cash flow forecast fed with fresh data, never re-entered three weeks later

Result: you know faster whether you’re making or losing money—not just whether your invoices are compliant.

Issuing invoices is useful—you already know that

You’ve probably heard about electronic invoicing from one angle only: issuing your customer invoices. It’s true, it’s useful, and it’s even a legal requirement that simplifies a real pain point—rekeying data for accounting.

This progress mainly benefits the administrative processing of invoices. However, it doesn’t change what you know about your business the next morning.

Electronic supplier invoices: what you actually gain

Every supplier invoice received in electronic format stops being a PDF you need to open, read, and manually re-enter. It arrives directly in DoliPlus as structured data: amount, supplier, expense type, date. In practice, this changes three things for you:

• A margin that reflects reality—when you buy abroad or ship goods, the invoiced price is just part of the cost. DoliPlus already includes shipping and customs in the cost price, for a realistic margin, not an optimistic one.
• A complete view of your expenses—many businesses closely track production purchases but treat rent, subscriptions, and overheads as a minor accounting detail. Yet these are expenses that impact your profitability just as much as the rest.
• Profitability insights that don’t wait until month-end—an expense that exists in DoliPlus on the same day, not three weeks later when accounting data is entered.

This way, the status of each supplier invoice appears directly in your usual purchase list, without needing to check an extra screen.

The direct impact on your management tools

DoliPlus already offers two tools designed to give you a real-time view of your business, without waiting for the financial close. They are accessible from the Banking/Accounting menu. However, their value depends on the freshness of the data they use:

• The management-focused profit and loss statement shows your profitability in real time — but a known expense reported three weeks late distorts the current month’s view.
• The cash flow forecast projects your upcoming receipts and payments — an exercise that loses some of its relevance if part of your expenses are only added later.

Therefore, the earlier your supplier invoices arrive and in a usable format, the more these tools reflect your actual situation — and the faster you can react if a cost spirals out of control.

Supplier e-invoicing: your questions before getting started

I’ve already been offered an e-invoicing solution—is that enough?

No, if it means exporting your invoices from DoliPlus to a third-party tool. Your invoice already exists in your ERP when you create and validate it—that’s where it should be issued, without re-entering data or switching tools. That’s what DoliPlus does natively, for both issuing and receiving supplier e-invoices. The real question isn’t “who handles the issuance?” but “is it managed in your ERP, at the source, or externally?”

My purchases are simple (rent, a few subscriptions)—is it worth it?

This is often where you see the biggest gains. These “simple” expenses are exactly the ones you track the least, due to lack of time. Receiving them electronically handles the tracking for you, without extra effort on your part.

I have few or no supplier purchases—does this concern me?

Even a business with few suppliers has recurring expenses: rent, insurance, subscriptions, service providers. These aren’t “production” invoices, but they do impact your bottom line.

How do I enable electronic receipt of supplier invoices?

Activation and daily monitoring (statuses, lists, dashboards) are detailed in our article Electronic invoicing: track the status of every invoice in real time. To explore margin calculations further, also see Margin and cost price calculations in DoliPlus.

Further reading

• Electronic invoicing: track the status of every invoice in real time
• Management-oriented profit and loss in DoliPlus
• Cash flow management
• Margin and cost price calculations in DoliPlus