receipt-formats

Existing receipt formats

Contributors

• Leif Arne Storset

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.

Further reading

• Wikipedia article

Open Financial Exchange

Analysis needed.

Further reading

• Wikipedia article

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.

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

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
• Order-processing support
  • how to convey authorization information

Further reading

• Google Checkout HTML API
• Google Checkout XML API

See Also

• receipt