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

The QR invoice provides basically the same features as the BVR payment slip. The only difference resides in the format of the document (used by your customers to pay their orders) and the format if the payment file received by the bank (which informs you about the payment successfully performed by your customers).

Scope

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

Administrative values

The QR invoice uses a separate IBAN, called QR-IBAN. This number has to be stored in the corresponding administrative number as shown below. Please contact your bank if you don't have a QR-IBAN.

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.

Import the payment file

Create a new interface of type Payment integration and subtype BVR import:

Set the following parameters:

Create a manual schedule to launch the function Process external payments and select the file to upload (i.e. the payment file received from the bank).