Great news for Spanish merchants: Veri*Factu has officially been pushed back to 2027 🇪🇸 🇪🇺
Honestly, it was a chaos waiting to happen. The deadlines, the technical uncertainty, the lack of clarity for software providers… everything pointed in that direction.
For those of us working with WordPress and FluentCart, it’s also a huge relief: we now have room to properly analyse how to adapt the checkout and invoicing flows over the next months: without rushing fixes into production.
But make no mistake: the delay doesn’t mean it disappears. Live connection with tax authorities is a must in all EU, with different deadlines depending on the country.
Veri*Factu is still on the horizon, and the compliance bar will only get higher 😅
For now, we finally get something rare in the Spanish regulatory world: time for adaptation🙈
cc: Shahjahan Jewel
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Incredible with all the chaos they have unleashed on companies, everyone paying attention to this, loss of time, money in many cases, in times where you have to be focused on sales, such as Christmas. Anyway, one more year, something is something. Give yourself time to calmly make the change. 😅😎
José Carlos Estirado José Carlos Estirado 100% agree.
This could be a perfect case study on how these measures boosted the revenue of invoicing companies over the last quarter: and how government support, including European funds, further amplified the effect.
Just follow the money. Most invoicing platforms, much like hosting providers, belong to the same holdings!
So many are just competing with themselves 🙄
Jorge de los Reyes Exactly, you said it, follow the money. Established companies that have received subsidies have billed millions, and now with these new clients who are bound to stay on their systems, even if they do so gradually. In our case, that's exactly what happened. We worked with Zoho Books for years and were extremely happy, but instead of doing the Verifactu integration themselves, they outsourced it to an external company. This has led many companies in Spain to not want to work with them this way. In our case, and much to our regret, we had to switch. In this case, we went to Holded, which we had been considering for some time, and now the moment was right, but forced, not out of necessity. I've been preparing for this for a while now, thinking, as I say, instead of "thinking outside the box," "thinking outside of Spain." 😎
José Carlos Estirado Yep. Leaving Spain is the classic move: but Spain isn’t the problem.
And many, are not aware, of the real price of leaving either. It can literally leave you on bankruptcy unless you are aware of the process with years of anticipation (talking about SMEs).
That being said, if you sell in Europe, you play by Europe’s rules. Period.
We see the same mistake all the time at the firm: people think that moving to Dubai, Andorra, or using an Atlas-style LLC magically solves everything. It doesn’t.
Some end up facing criminal charges and million-euro penalties… for free.
Let’s see how Europe evolves. But the landscape right now? Brutal
Jorge de los Reyes Well, leaving would be an option. Logically, if I live in Spain, I abide by the rules here, however unfair I may find them, especially at the business level. But you can implement serious strategies without risk of penalty. The problem arises when things are done without knowledge, without a strategy, without good information, without knowing where the limits are. But you shouldn't be afraid to use tax tools, whether inside or outside our country, since they aren't illegal; in fact, they're permitted. Playing outside those rules is another matter entirely; everyone is old enough to know what risks they're willing to take. But living in fear isn't really living 😉
José Carlos Estirado yep.
The problem isn’t ignorance, it’s thinking you already understood.
Jorge de los Reyes Exactly, just as you say. And you never really understand things completely. Anyway, I always say that actions speak louder than words, so if you want to see if it works, just give it a try and you'll learn as you go.
That’s a very good news
Shahjahan Jewel indeed! It’ll make the migrations smoother and far less rushed 😄
For “sure” 😏
have you guys implemented a spanish language fluentcart setup ? (castillan spanish) - i dont want to translate the whole thing if it has already been done. Perhaps crowdsourced language localisations of the fluentcart templates?
Paul Gailey Not that I know of yet.
I haven’t seen a complete Castilian Spanish FluentCart setup already packaged and shared. A crowdsourced localization library for FluentCart templates would actually be a very smart idea, because translating everything from scratch on every site is a pain. (happens all the time with the suite plugins tbh!)
If someone has already done it, I’d love to see it too.
If not, this feels like something worth building as a community resource.
ok, well i will look into the recommended loco translate localisation setup....i naively assumed that fluentcarm was shipping with some main languages included but then again this might partly explain the intro lifetime deal pricing.