General

The General group defines the invoice profile. The storage location of the generated files is configured in its own File Storage group.

• Profile (general/profile, default: EN 16931 (COMFORT)): Determines the scope and business rules of the generated invoice. Available are BASIC, EN 16931 (COMFORT) as well as XRechnung 2.2/2.3/3.0. A decision guide is available under Formats & Profiles.

File Storage

Controls separately for XML and PDF whether the generated files are written to disk and where.

XML storage

• Save XML to disk (file_storage/xml/save_to_disk, default: Yes): When set to No, the generated XML is not stored permanently. Download and email attachment still work, because the file is regenerated on demand.
• XML Storage Path (general/storage_path, default: var/export/e-invoices): Directory for the generated e-invoice XML files. Only visible when saving is enabled.

PDF storage

• Save PDF to disk (file_storage/pdf/save_to_disk, default: No): Additionally stores the generated ZUGFeRD PDF. Requires embedding the XML into the PDF to be enabled under Invoice Settings.
• PDF Storage Path (file_storage/pdf/storage_path, default: var/export/pdf-invoices): Directory for the generated ZUGFeRD PDF files. Only visible when saving is enabled.

The following applies to both paths:

• Relative paths (e.g. var/export/e-invoices) are resolved from the Magento root directory.
• Absolute paths (starting with /) are used unchanged.
• The directory is created automatically if needed.

The files are named according to the pattern invoice_<invoice number>.xml or creditmemo_<credit memo number>.xml, e.g. invoice_000000123.xml.