For Greek accounting practices
The mandate covers issuance. Everything else still lands on your desk.
Greece's B2B e-invoicing mandate starts 2 March 2026 for large businesses and 1 October 2026 for everyone else, but it only obliges Greek-established sellers to issue electronically. Foreign supplier invoices, B2C receipts, and the smaller-supplier gap keep arriving exactly as before, as PDF, email, and paper. Pileform reads it, in Greek, natively.
The Greek practice problem
Greek accountants are watching two things happen at once: a phased e-invoicing rollout that touches only some invoices from some suppliers, and a desk that still fills with Greek-language paper regardless, foreign invoices the mandate never reaches, B2C receipts the mandate excludes, and smaller suppliers who are not yet obligated at all. None of that paper processes itself, and generic OCR still mangles Greek characters and misses the ΦΠΑ phrasing that decides whether a total is gross or net.
Pileform is not an e-invoicing provider and does not issue or transmit e-invoices, it extracts what the mandate leaves outside itself, and reads Greek the way your reviewer does.
How it works
Greek paper in, reconciled workbook out.
Drop the period's foreign invoices, B2C receipts, and smaller-supplier paper as one PDF, Greek, English, or mixed on the same page. Greece's 24% standard, 13% and 6% reduced rates apply per line, alongside Cyprus's 19/9/5/3/0, from what the document actually prints.
Greece's rates, native.
24% standard, 13% and 6% reduced, applied per line from the printed rate, never overridden. A missing rate is inferred and yellow-flagged, not guessed silently.
Foreign supplier invoices, permanently outside myDATA.
The e-invoicing mandate attaches to sellers established in Greece. Invoices from foreign suppliers keep arriving as ordinary PDF and email indefinitely, and that is exactly what Pileform extracts, VAT, line items, and all.
The phase-1-to-phase-2 gap.
Until 1 October 2026, and through the transitional window beyond it, a large population of smaller Greek suppliers is not yet required to e-invoice. Their paper and PDF invoices need the same extraction as always.
Greek documents, read natively.
ΦΠΑ phrasing, mixed Greek-English line items, and Greek supplier headers are read in the language the document uses, with the source phrase preserved in the workbook for audit.
Flags, not guesses.
Rows come back ready-to-post or yellow-flagged for review. Nothing is silently corrected, and no rate or figure is invented where the document does not state one.
See what the mandate does not cover.
The full mandate timeline, the FY2023 threshold, penalties, and the documents that stay outside it permanently, foreign invoices included, are in the guide.
For more on how Pileform reads Greek documents, see Greek receipt OCR · the Hubdoc alternative page
Honest answers
Greece e-invoicing questions, answered.
No. Pileform does inbound document extraction, VAT reading, and posting, it is not a certified e-invoicing service provider (ΠΥΗΤ) and does not issue, transmit, or report e-invoices on anyone's behalf. That capability belongs to a certified provider, AADE's own timologio or myDATAapp, or a client's accounting software. Pileform's role is the documents that still arrive as PDF, email, or paper regardless of the mandate.
Greece's e-invoicing obligation attaches only to sellers established in Greek territory. A foreign supplier invoicing a Greek business is not compelled by this measure, so those invoices keep arriving as ordinary PDF, email, or paper, permanently, not just during the rollout. Pileform reads them, applies the correct VAT treatment per line, and reconciles them into the books like any other document.
Businesses outside phase 1 (FY2023 gross revenue over €1,000,000) are not yet obligated to e-invoice. From 1 October 2026 the obligation extends to essentially all remaining Greek-established entities under Greek Accounting Standards, with a transitional window to 31 December 2026. Until each supplier's own go-live date, their invoices arrive exactly as before.
Yes. Greece's 24% standard rate and 13%/6% reduced rates are read per line from the printed document, alongside Cyprus's 19/9/5/3/0, with the same rule either way: the printed rate wins, and anything inferred is yellow-flagged for review rather than assumed.
No, and it is not meant to. myDATA reporting and e-invoicing issuance are handled by certified providers, AADE's own tools, or a client's accounting software, that is a legal issuance and transmission function Pileform does not perform. Pileform's job is upstream and outside that scope: turning the documents that still land as PDF, email, or paper into reconciled, VAT-correct, post-ready records.
Drop the pile that still arrives as PDF.
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