China fapiao rules require official VAT invoices. Everhour keeps billable rates organized before invoice work begins.
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A mainland China invoice workflow centers on the official fapiao for taxable sales of goods, services, intangible assets, or real estate. A privately formatted bill can support internal billing communication, but the compliant tax invoice is the fapiao issued under PRC invoice administration rules.
The practical job is to collect invoice data in the right shape before issuance: buyer identity, seller identity, item details, amount, issuer, issue date, and VAT treatment. For enterprise purchasers requesting a VAT invoice, the buyer's taxpayer identification number or unified social credit code must appear on the invoice for it to serve as a valid tax voucher.
PRC invoice rules identify the basic invoice contents as including the invoice name, code and number, customer name, goods or business item, unit, quantity, unit price, amount in figures and words, issuer, issue date, and issuing unit or individual. Missing columns create tax voucher problems, even when the commercial total is correct.
Invoice issuance also has a process requirement. Invoices must be issued truthfully, within the prescribed time limit and sequence, with all required columns completed and all copies issued at one time. A clean app workflow should force complete fields before finalization instead of letting a user send a half-finished invoice for later correction.
China's indirect tax regime is VAT. From January 1, 2026, China's VAT Law preserves the main VAT rates of 13% for standard taxable goods and specified services, 9% for listed goods and services, 6% for other services and intangibles, and 0% for exports and specified cross-border transactions.
A VAT special invoice needs a separate sales amount and output VAT amount when an eligible purchaser requests it. RMB also matters for records: China's accounting rules use renminbi as the bookkeeping base currency and require accounting records to be in Chinese, with limited concurrent-language or foreign-currency bookkeeping allowances that still require RMB financial reporting.
A one-off invoice tool is enough when you need to draft a clear commercial invoice, gather buyer details, and prepare the values a fapiao workflow needs. It fits occasional invoices, fixed-fee work, or a single project with simple service descriptions and no recurring billing process.
A managed workflow becomes useful when invoices depend on tracked time, changing rates, project-level pricing, or repeated client billing. Everhour separates internal cost rates from client-facing billable rates, supports per-person defaults and per-project overrides, preserves dated rate history, and prices billable work by project, member, or task before invoice generation.
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A regular PDF bill alone is not the compliant tax invoice for mainland China VAT purposes. The official tax invoice is the fapiao issued under PRC invoice administration rules. A PDF can help communicate charges, but the fapiao carries the tax invoice function.
An enterprise purchaser requesting a VAT invoice must provide the taxpayer identification number or unified social credit code. That identifier must appear on the invoice for the document to serve as a valid tax voucher.
Electronic invoices have the same legal effect as paper invoices under PRC invoice administration rules. The format does not remove the need for truthful issuance, required fields, correct buyer information, and complete invoice columns.
The sales amount and output VAT amount must be shown separately when an eligible purchaser requests a VAT special invoice. Combining tax and sales value into one unclear total creates review problems for the buyer's accounting and tax records.
Payment timing is generally a contract term under China's Civil Code. For sales contracts, if the payment time is not agreed or cannot be determined, the buyer pays when receiving the subject matter or the document for taking delivery.
Everhour separates internal cost rates from client-facing billable rates, with per-person defaults and per-project overrides. Dated rate history keeps older reports tied to the rates that applied when the work was performed.
Everhour can generate invoices from uninvoiced billable time and expenses, then calculate amounts from rates, time, and billable expenses while excluding non-billable work. Line items can be grouped by project, task, person, date, or another available breakdown.
Keep China invoice preparation grounded in clean billing data. Everhour connects rates, projects, billable time, and invoice generation so client charges come from organized records.
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