SRI — Ecuador e-invoicing
No Ecuador data file exists anywhere in this repository — no country policy, no identifiers, no tax system, no transmission channel. Nothing on this page is implemented. It is here so that someone who wants Ecuador support knows what adding it would involve. The countries Invoicerr does cover are listed in the country directory.
Ecuador's e-invoicing (factura electrónica) runs through the SRI, the Servicio de Rentas Internas. Every invoice carries a clave de acceso, a numeric authorization key the seller calculates and the SRI validates before the document can be delivered.
What supporting Ecuador would involve
| System | Factura Electrónica (SRI), authorized via a clave de acceso |
| Authority | SRI — Servicio de Rentas Internas |
| Format | A national XML schema (the SRI invoice schema). No provider in backend/src/modules/documents/formats/ builds it today. |
| Transmission | Submission to the SRI web services for authorization. No transport in backend/src/modules/documents/transports/ talks to it today. |
Carried over from an earlier research pass in this repository's own history, and never checked against a primary source. Leads, not facts — confirm every line before writing it into a data file.
- Progressive rollout by sector since 2014, now covering all businesses.
- Offline mode exists as a contingency when connectivity is unavailable, with later sync to the SRI.
- Digital certificate required for signing.
Which catalogues a contributor would add
Adding a country is data, not code. Adding a country is the procedure and the contract each file has to satisfy; this is only the shopping list for Ecuador.
country-policy/data/ec.json— which document actions Ecuador allows. Start here: without this file every action is refused with a 403, naming the country.country-identifiers/data/ec.json— which national identifier a party must carry.tax/tax-systems/data/ec.jsonandvat-rates/data/ec.json— the tax kind, and the rate ladder offered on an invoice line.correction-routes/data/ec.json— all eleven canonical correction routes,unverifiedwhere unresearched, never omitted.b2g-routing/data/ec.json— the channel and format an Ecuadorian public buyer requires.transports/channel-policy/data/ec.json— whether a channel is legally required of a seller established in Ecuador, and from what date.archive/retention/data/ec.json— how long an archived document is kept, and what the duration is counted from.
Add mentions/, content-requirements/, country-fields/, reporting/ and
domestic-reverse-charge/ only where the law actually gives them content.
Data alone will not finish the job here: the SRI platform is a transmission channel this repository does not implement, and its XML schema has no format provider. Both are code, not a JSON file — see When a country needs more than a file.
Want Ecuador supported?
Check the open compliance issues first. If there is no issue for Ecuador, open one and name which of the files above you need — a request that names one mechanism is far more actionable than "please add Ecuador".