Why and how
Mustang: because invoices simply need to get faster.
Mustang makes your software read, write and validate (e.g. re-calculate) machine readable invoices, orders, or delivery advices:
Machine-readable data speeds up invoice processing, makes it less error prone, is often requested by your customers and has become mandatory e.g. for german B2G invoices and
Italian (and soon French!) domestic B2B invoices (read more about electronic invoices).
Machine readability is achieved with formats such as Cross Industry Invoice (XML), XRechnung (per se not a format, details), or Factur-X/ZUGFeRD/Order-X (Cross Industry Invoice XML embedded into human readable PDF). Unlike for more complex exchange, called EDI (e.g. Peppol), those formats do not need to support additional protocols, gather extra address information or run custom servers.
What
Mustangproject is a open source Java (Jar or Maven) and .net library, command-line tool, and provides a server with a REST API. Mustangproject 2.6.1 was released on 13.02.2023 and supports ZUGFeRD 2.2.0, ZUGFeRD 1, Factur-X 1 as well as UN/CEFACT CII XRechnung 2.2.0.
Mustangserver planned maintenance February
2023/27/02
On Saturday, February 26 we performed the scheduled February maintenance on our Mustangserver REST API which included the following: We moved the VM to a physically different (newer, bigger) server in a different data centre of the same provider, of course remaining in Germany. You should not even notice the change, although you may notice […]
Mustang 2.6.1
2023/13/02
Today, February 13th, 2023 we released Mustang 2.6.1 with the following New Features allow prepaid amount in invoice class allow Bank credentials without BIC Corrections for small profiles allow minimum profile without delivery date “Systemic corrections” return error code not only on validation but also on recursive directory validation toolchain.xml now only required on `mvn […]
Mustangserver 0.8.0
2023/06/02
Today, Monday, February 6th 2023, we published version 0.8.0 of our e-invoicing REST API service Mustangserver. It adds support for reading and writing orders in Order-X using the format code “ox” in the operations invoice2xml, parse and extract. invoice2xml writes and parse reads JSON data for which the same structure like for invoices is used. […]
Mustangserver Manual
2023/23/01
Today, 23rd of January 2023, we published the first manual for Mustangserver 0.7.0, including “How can I register”, a PHP sample client and chapters e.g. on Postman and JMeter.
Mustang 2.6.0 “Joyeux Noël”
2022/23/12
Mustang 2.6.0 “Joyeux Noël”, released December 23rd, 2022, supports trade parties without neccesarily providing a postal address, as allowed e.g. in France. It also improves the “Minimum” profile (also popular in France) by e.g. automatically hiding invoice lines, applicabletradetax, linetotalamount, paymentreference etc. if active. Due date and delivery dates are also no longer mandatory for […]
Mustangserver 0.7.0
2022/28/11
On Montag, November 28th the oAuth-functionality in Mustangserver, announced for November, was published. Affected are Docker and Inhouse installations only, ordinary access already previously used oAuth on the API management. New beta users, however, benefit from the self-registration introduced on November 19th. Previously new users subscribed to the mailing list and subsequently received username and […]
Mustang 2.5.7
2022/07/11
Mustangproject version 2.5.7, released November 7th, 2022, works again in Java 1.8 and improves the validator (EN16931 checks are now also run on “Basic” profile) as well as the importer: ZF1 invoices can now be imported in the invoiceimporter and some getters were added to the ordinary importer.
Mustangserver 0.6.0
2022/10/10
Saturday, October 8th, we published the new functionality announced for October in a new endpoint, “PDF”, to create PDF/A-1 files from any input PDF provided. These can be plain PDFs, or even PDF/A-1 or PDF/A-3 files. This re-renders the vector graphics in the PDF so it should actually work from any input PDF. Rumours have […]
Mustangserver 0.5.0, Quba 1.2.0
2022/26/09
Version 1.2.0 of the free e-invoice-viewer Quba, published today, September 26th, 2022, continues to work offline, but can now also connect to Mustang Server, to validate invoices, confirming their syntactical and mathematical correctness. The September release “Version 0.5” of Mustang Server was already published on Saturday, September 24th. Additionally to it’s own validator, it adds […]
Mustang 2.5.6
2022/22/09
Mustangproject version 2.5.6, released today, September 22nd 2022, adds some Javadoc documentation and removes a unneccessary dependency.