Is electronic invoicing compulsory?

⚖️ Yes. Making Tax Digital for VAT applies to your VAT records today, and from 1 April 2029 electronic invoicing becomes compulsory between VAT-registered businesses.

I mostly invoice private customers, does it concern me?

📋 Not in the same way: sales to private individuals sit outside the business-to-business rules. You invoice your riders exactly as you do today.

What to do before 1 April 2029 ?

✅ Check that you can receive and read a structured electronic invoice.

Is Equimondo compatible?

✅ Equimondo émet déjà vos factures au format UBL 2.1 conforme à la norme européenne EN 16931 (profil Peppol BIS Billing 3.0).

What does it cost with Equimondo?

💰 Receiving is free, on every plan.

E-invoicing and Making Tax Digital for riding schools: the guide

What changes, in two words

Making Tax Digital for VAT already requires your VAT records to be kept and filed digitally. Electronic invoicing between businesses follows on 1 April 2029 : paper invoices and PDFs sent by email give way to a structured file that the recipient software reads directly.

Your riding school, your livery yard or your freelance instructing is concerned, like every VAT-registered business, whatever its size.

And my riders, who are private individuals?

The invoices you send to your riders go to private individuals: they sit outside the business-to-business rules. You issue them exactly as you do today, and Equimondo keeps them in the same history.

What applies to you, and when

1 April 2029

Electronic invoicing compulsory between VAT-registered businesses

All invoices between VAT-registered businesses move to a structured electronic format, for sending as well as receiving. Making Tax Digital for VAT already applies to your records today.

What you actually have to do

Check how you receive electronic invoices

To receive electronic invoices, all you need is software that reads the structured file. There is no separate registration to complete.

Check your invoicing software

From 1 April 2029 your invoices will have to go out as a structured file. If your current tool does not provide for that, now is a good time to change, before the deadline and the rush.

Leave nothing to the last minute

Businesses that start early choose their tools calmly. The others will put up with the delays, the queues at support and the rushed migrations of the last quarter.

At Equimondo, receiving is free. For everyone.

We decided to take the industry's compliance on ourselves: receiving your supplier invoices is included on every plan, including the free one.

Structured invoices received and issued, we handle it
Your supplier invoices land straight in Equimondo
Your costs track themselves, horse by horse
And for compliant issuing: our plans from 19 € excl. VAT a month

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⏰ Our customers save six to eight hours a week on average.

✅ Invoices, reminders and payments, all automatic.
✅ Online sign-ups and bookings, without the phone.
✅ Livery charged automatically every month.

😊 The result: your evenings and Sundays are yours again.

📋 Yes, like every business concerned.

📅 Making Tax Digital for VAT applies today. From 1 April 2029 you must be able to receive and issue electronic invoices.

✅ With Equimondo you are compliant without changing a single habit. And receiving your supplier invoices is free, on every plan.

🔄 That is our speciality, and it is free.

✅ You send us an export from your current software.
✅ You re-import clients, horses, services and invoices in a few clicks, from your own account.
✅ You confirm, and off you go.

🕑 Most moves take less than a day.

🎁 Everything to do with your horses, free for life.

✅ Horse records, care and reminders.
✅ Diary for lessons and clinics, with online booking.
✅ Teaching records and rider progress.
✅ Your website included.
✅ Supplier invoices received, in a compliant format.

💰 Invoicing starts at £ 19 excl. VAT/month.