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The Invoice CN skill extracts data from VAT invoices posted by manufacturers from China. A VAT invoice is a document issued by a seller to a buyer that lists the goods or services supplied. A VAT invoice typically contains the following information:
  • The list of goods or services supplied and their quantity and price
  • The total amount payable for the goods or services
  • The currency to be used for payment
  • A description of the goods or services
  • Details about the seller and the buyer
  • The number and date of the invoice
  • Applicable taxes
The Invoice CN skill is a production skill. It has been fully trained on a large document set and provides high accuracy of data identification and extraction. The skill is ready to be used in production and does not require further training on your specific documents. Accuracy and straight-through processing (STP) rates can be further optimized in production through continuous learning from human-in-the-loop feedback. This skill is designed for processing VAT invoices from China, which have a specific structure that does not change from document to document. Other types of invoices from China may not be processed correctly using this skill. The Invoice CN skill does not use the Vendors, BusinessUnits, PurchaseOrders and PurchaseOrderItems data catalogs.

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Countries and Languages

CountriesLanguages
ChinaChinese (Simplified)
English

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Extracted Fields

Asterisk (*) indicates a required field or field group. Values cannot be empty.

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Business Unit (BU)

FieldDescription
NameThe invoice recipient’s name.
Tax IDThe invoice recipient’s taxpayer identifier.
AddressThe address of the invoice recipient.
CountryThe address of the invoice recipient.
PhoneThe invoice recipient’s phone number.
Bank NameThe invoice recipient’s bank name and branch (if specified).
Bank AccountThe invoice recipient’s bank account number.

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Vendor

FieldDescription
NameThe vendor’s name.
Tax IDThe vendor’s taxpayer identifier.
AddressThe vendor’s address.
CountryThe vendor’s address.
PhoneThe vendor’s phone number.
Bank NameThe vendor’s bank name.
Bank AccountThe vendor’s bank account number.

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Header Fields

FieldDescription
Invoice NumberThe number of the invoice.
Invoice Date*The date when the invoice was issued.
Invoice IDThe invoice identifier.
Total*The total cost of goods or services.
CurrencyThe currency of the invoice.

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Purchase Order

FieldDescription
Order NumberThe purchase order number.

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Line Items (repeating group)

FieldDescription
DescriptionA description of the line item.
ArticleThe article number or code of the line item.
UoMThe unit of measurement used for the goods.
QuantityThe number of line item units purchased.
Unit PriceThe price of one unit of the line item goods.
Net PriceThe price of the line item before tax.
Tax RateThe tax rate applicable to the line item.
Tax AmountThe amount of tax payable on the line item.

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Taxes

FieldDescription
Total Net AmountThe total cost of goods and services without tax.
Total TaxesThe total amount of tax charged.
Tax RateThe tax rate.

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Key Fields

  • Vendor/Name
  • Invoice Date
  • Invoice Number
  • Total
  • Currency

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Validation Rules

RuleDescription
Invoice Date is requiredChecks that the Invoice Date field is filled in. If the field is empty, displays a message that it is a required field.
Total is requiredChecks that the Total field is filled in. If the field is empty, displays a message that it is a required field.
Set Default CountryIf the values for the Business Unit (BU)/Country and Vendor/Country fields are either missing from the document or have not been extracted, fills them in using the following value: “中国”.
Process money fields and currencyChecks that the value Currency field is a supported currency. If not, sets the value to “CNY”. Currency descriptions are replaced with ISO codes.
Check Total Net AmountChecks if the value of the Total Net Amount field equals the sum of the Line Items/Net Price fields. If not, displays a warning message and suggests filling in the fields with their calculated values.
Check Total TaxesChecks if the value of the Total Taxes field equals the sum of the Line Items/Tax Amount fields. If not, displays an appropriate message and suggests filling in the fields with their calculated values.
Check SumChecks if the value of the Total field equals the sum of all line items (Total Net Amount) after taxes (Total Taxes). If not, displays an appropriate message and suggests filling in the fields with their calculated values.
Check item amountChecks the following:
1. That the number of units for each line item (Quantity) multiplied by the price of a unit (Unit Price) equals the price of the goods or service before taxes (Net Price).
2. That the price of the goods or service before taxes (Net Price) multiplied by the tax rate (Tax Rate) equals the value in the Tax Amount field.
Removes the percent sign (%) from the value in the Tax Rate field.
For each invoice line item, suggests values for the following fields (wherever calculating them is possible): Quantity, Unit Price, Net Price, Tax Rate, and Tax Amount.
Complete Tax RateChecks that the value of the Tax Rate field equals the following: Total Taxes*100/Total Net. If the values are different or Tax Rate is empty, suggests filling it with its calculated value.
To fill in a field with its calculated value, click the suggested value button in the value region of the field and select one of the suggestions from the drop-down list.