billbox® Podcast EN

In this podcast episode, Célia and Florian Beckmann discuss roles, duties, and responsibilities in the collaboration between customers and billbox. Using real-world examples, they explain how to assign permissions effectively, why “not everyone should be able to do everything,” and how clear workflows improve security, efficiency, and collaboration—between people, software, and the organization.

In this episode, Célia and Florian walk us through an invoice’s entire lifecycle—from ordering and service delivery, through review and approval, to payment and archiving. They show how invoices arrive in billbox, why structured data is crucial, and how automated workflows make financial processes more secure, faster, and more efficient.

Episode 3 focuses on the importance of clean data. Celia and Florian Beckmann explain why structured data is essential for businesses, how it simplifies processes, and how it reduces sources of error. The episode shows that data quality is much more than just bureaucracy—it is a critical success factor for efficient, digital business processes.

In this episode, we take an in-depth look at e-invoicing. We explain the differences between paper, PDF, OCR and structured formats such as ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, bbXML and EDIFACT. You’ll also find out why structured invoice data is so important for businesses, accounting and digital processes.

We’ll be discussing why accounting and payment processes are often unnecessarily complicated, how digitization has evolved over the past 20–25 years, and why a genuine process-oriented approach is more important than individual tools. We’ll also discuss European data sovereignty, the roles of Switzerland and Germany, and what “we’re already digital” really means today. This episode serves as a per...