Document Statuses in Your Account: What They Do and Do Not Mean

How the Documents section groups invoices and validations, and why no status here says «paid».

The Documents section keeps everything the account has produced for you, in three tabs: all documents, created invoices, and validations.

What a status tells you

  • Pending — the job is in the queue or being processed right now.
  • Completed — the file was produced, or the check finished and its verdict is stored with the record.
  • Failed — processing stopped, with the reason kept so you can see what went wrong.

These statuses describe processing, not the life of the invoice: the service never learns whether your customer opened the document or paid it — that happens outside, in your accounting. Files are collected from the list by an authenticated download route, so a document is only ever available to its owner.

Built on the standard in force

E-Rechnung Pro creates and validates documents against EN 16931:2017 — the version ZUGFeRD 2.x and Factur-X are built on today. We are following the EN 16931-1:2026 revision and will support it as the formats adopt it.

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