receipt-formats
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Existing receipt formats
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Contributors
- Leif Arne Storset
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Quicken Interchange Format (QIF)
Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) is an open specification for reading and writing financial data to media (i.e. files). It's unclear what invoice/receipt support is available, but invoice accounts are mentioned in the Wikipedia article. Further analysis needed.
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Further reading
- Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QIF)
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Open Financial Exchange
Analysis needed.
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Further reading
- Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange)
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Google Checkout API
Google Checkout offers an API for submitting invoice information. Two variants are provided: a simple HTML form method and a more sophisticated XML API.
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Simple HTML form
- Item information
- name (required)
- description (required)
- quantity
- price (required)
- currency
- Shipping methods
- name
- price
- currency
- U. S. area where the method is available
- Tax
- U. S. state in which you charge tax
- tax rate
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XML API
- Shopping cart with item information and optional expiry date
- name
- description
- unit price
- quantity
- item id (in merchant's database)
- tax table to use
- whether the item is digitally delivered and how (e-mail or download key)
- other information
- Checkout-flow support
- tax tables
- whether shipping is taxed
- tax rate
- geographic area
- shipping options
- pickup
- flat-rate shipping
- price
- applicable areas
- calculated by custom web service
- tax tables
- Order-processing support
- how to convey authorization information
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Further reading
- Google Checkout HTML API (http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/google_checkout_html_api.html#checkout_api)
- Google Checkout XML API (http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/index.html#checkout_api)
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