An invoice recipient in the federal administration has at least one buyer reference. Each authority or office may use several buyer references. Applying for multiple buyer references is possible if they are needed to assign e-invoices to separate departments within an authority or institution, so that they can be forwarded via the respective processing systems to the responsible units.
Please contact the invoice recipient directly if you have any questions about the buyer reference applicable to your contract. More information on the buyer reference is available on the KoSIT website. Federal authorities and offices are assigned their buyer reference (Leitweg-ID) by the Federal Government’s Central Finance Office (Zentrales Finanzwesen des Bundes, ZFB). Please contact erechnung@zrb.bund.de if you have any questions.
