Pricing guide
How much does e-Factura integration cost?
From a checkbox in your invoicing software to full integration with the ANAF API — here is what you actually pay.
Romania made e-Factura mandatory for B2B relationships and then for B2C as well, so the question is no longer whether you connect to the system run by ANAF — Romania's national tax administration — but what it costs to do it properly. The real market ranges for 2026 look like this: if you already use a known invoicing product or ERP, activating and configuring the e-Factura module costs an indicative €0–500. If you run your own invoicing system, a custom integration with the ANAF API through SPV (Spațiul Privat Virtual, the tax administration's online taxpayer portal) comes to €1,000–5,000. For large invoice volumes or complex flows — several legal entities, interconnected ERP systems, extra validations — the budget climbs to €5,000–15,000. The differences hide inside the word integration: authorising access in SPV, testing in the ANAF test environment, handling validation errors and monitoring submissions. Below we break down each tier, so you know exactly what to ask for in a quote and what you get for the money. This matters for any foreign-owned company with a Romanian entity as much as it does for a local firm.
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Key takeaways
A module in existing invoicing software or ERP: €0–500
Romanian invoicing products already ship e-Factura connectors. At most you pay for configuration, SPV authorisation and team training.
Custom integration with the ANAF API: €1,000–5,000
For in-house invoicing systems: generating the UBL XML, signing it, submitting through SPV, collecting the responses and archiving the confirmations.
High volumes and complex flows: €5,000–15,000
Thousands of invoices a month, several legal entities or interconnected ERP systems require processing queues, automatic retries on errors and permanent monitoring.
Recurring costs: an indicative €20–100 a month
Hosting the connector, updates when ANAF changes the specification and supervision of validation errors do not disappear after launch — budget them from the start.
What a properly built e-Factura integration includes
A serious integration is not merely sending XML to ANAF. It includes authorising the application in SPV with a digital certificate, generating the file correctly in the UBL standard ANAF requires, validating locally before submission, and complete testing in the ANAF test environment before touching real invoices. Without the testing stage, you discover your first rejected invoices in production, with statutory deadlines already running.
What separates cheap offers from correct ones is error handling: what happens when ANAF rejects an invoice because of a wrong tax code, an incomplete address or a missing field. The system has to show you clearly which invoice failed, why, and allow correction and resubmission without a programmer stepping in. Ask explicitly for that flow in the quote — this is where most of the development hours hide.
A concrete example: a distributor with an in-house invoicing system
A distributor issuing roughly 800 invoices a month with an internally built invoicing system paid an indicative €3,500 for the integration: two weeks of development for generating and submitting the XML files, one week of testing in the ANAF environment, and a simple panel where the accounting team sees the status of every invoice.
The alternative evaluated initially — uploading manually into SPV — would have meant about 25 hours of work a month for one person in accounting. At an internal cost of €10–12 an hour, the integration paid for itself in roughly a year, and the risk of forgotten or late invoices disappeared. That is the calculation worth doing before you decide.
Frequently asked questions
Can I submit invoices manually in SPV, with no integration at all?
Yes — manual upload into SPV is free and acceptable at a few invoices a month. At tens or hundreds it becomes a hidden cost: hours of repetitive work, the risk of missed invoices and of exceeded deadlines. The threshold where integration pays for itself is usually around 50–100 invoices a month.
What happens if ANAF rejects a submitted invoice?
You receive an error message with the reason for rejection — an invalid tax code, missing fields, a wrong XML structure. A well-built integration displays the error in terms an accountant understands and allows immediate correction and resubmission, so you stay within the statutory reporting deadline.
How long does implementing e-Factura integration take?
Activating a module inside existing invoicing software takes a few days, including SPV authorisation. A custom integration with the ANAF API takes an indicative 2–6 weeks, a significant part of which is testing in the ANAF test environment — a stage you should not let anyone shorten.
Can the integration cost be covered from EU funding?
Yes — e-Factura integration usually falls within the eligible expenditure of SME digitalization programmes, alongside ERP or a website. If you are planning broader digitalization anyway, it makes sense to include the integration in the same funded project rather than paying for it separately.
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