Set the client up correctly and Cord bills the sale in the right currency; the specific tax treatment for a foreign client varies by the country you’re issuing from.

Common to any country: set the client’s country

When you add the client, select their country in the Country field on their profile (not “inherit from issuer”). Cord uses that value, together with the tax ID you capture, to apply the correct treatment to the invoice.

Mexico: service exports

Selling services or software licenses to a customer outside Mexico requires a service export CFDI:

1. In the client’s tax ID field, use the SAT’s generic international RFC: XEXX010101000. Cord doesn’t have a separate field for your client’s home-country Tax ID — today this single field is what’s used.
2. In CFDI Usage on the client’s profile, select S01 (No tax effects), since the foreign recipient doesn’t deduct taxes with the SAT.
3. When creating the quote or invoice, set its currency to the right one (for example, USD) and select the Exempt rate on the line item’s tax if your accountant confirms that sale qualifies for the 0% export rate.

Spain: a client inside or outside the European Union

If you issue Verifactu documents for a client with a country other than Spain, Cord uses the country you captured on their profile to automatically decide the correct treatment in the registry: intracommunity identification if the client is in the EU, or country-of-residence identification if they’re outside it. You don’t need to choose anything else beyond saving the client’s correct country.

Other countries

Outside Mexico and Spain, Cord doesn’t have a special tax treatment for foreign clients beyond issuing the invoice in the sale currency you choose; check with your accountant for the correct service-export treatment in your country.