INVOICING, COMPARED

A PDF in an email is not an invoicing system.

It works right up until someone asks how much a client still owes, or which invoice that wire belongs to. This is what changes when the invoice carries its own state, its own link and its own balance.

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Where the invoice livesA PDF in an email thread, plus a row in a spreadsheetA record with its own state: draft, open, paid, void or uncollectible

How the client pays itThey read the PDF, then look for your bank details somewhere elseThe invoice has its own page where the client pays the balance, in full or in part, with the methods you have turned on

How you know the balanceSomeone reconciles the bank statement against the spreadsheet by handOnline payments and the wires you record both reduce the same balance automatically

NumberingA counter someone maintains, easy to skip or duplicateSequential per country and document type, reserved transactionally at issue time

Stamping (Mexico)You log into the PAC portal and re-key the invoice thereCFDI 4.0 stamped from Cord under your own digital seal certificate

CancellingBack to the portal, and the spreadsheet may never find outCancelled with the SAT and only marked void once the SAT confirms

RemindersSomeone remembers. Or does not.Each invoice carries its own due date and Cord emails before and after it

Another currencyA rate someone typed in, from a day nobody recordedIssued in the currency of the sale, with a dated rate stated on the document

From your own systemsCopy and pastev1 API, webhooks per state change, and an MCP server

What Cord does not do

Outside Mexico, Cord does not file anything with your tax authority yet. In Germany and France it generates and attaches the European e-invoice without transmitting it; in Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru the connection to the authority is being activated, and until then you issue a commercial invoice or a pro forma.
Online, the client pays by card, with Mercado Pago where you have it, or by bank direct debit (SEPA, ACH, Bacs or Canadian pre-authorized debit) where it is being rolled out. A bank transfer that matches itself is also being rolled out: SPEI to a CLABE of each invoice in Mexico, and a transfer with its own reference in EUR, GBP and USD in Spain, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. Other bank transfers are recorded by hand.
Recurring invoices go out monthly from the app, from the Professional plan; quarterly or yearly schedules are only available through the API.

QUESTIONS

Before you switch

Do I still need a PAC to stamp CFDI?

Cord stamps through an authorized certification provider on your behalf, so you do not log into a separate portal. You upload your digital seal certificate once in Cord and every CFDI is stamped under your own tax ID, not a shared account.

Can I move my existing numbering to Cord?

Yes. Cord keeps a sequence per country and document type with a prefix you choose, so you can continue your current series instead of restarting at one.

What happens to invoices I already issued elsewhere?

They stay where they are. Cord does not import historical invoices from another system; it takes over from the moment you start issuing here, and your balance in Cord reflects only what Cord issued.

A PDF in an email is not an invoicing system.

What Cord does not do

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