About Paperless Peru

PaperlessPeru is the Sovos electronic invoicing solution for companies operating in Peru.

With Paperless Peru, you can generate, send, receive, and store electronic documents in compliance with Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administración Tributaria (SUNAT) and Operador de Servicios Electrónicos (OSE) requirements.

With Paperless Peru you can:

Issue electronic invoices and other tax documents to SUNAT.
Receive and review documents from suppliers.
Track document status throughout the submission lifecycle.
Distribute documents to recipients.
Run reports on document volumes, amounts, and SUNAT submission status.
Run reconciliation reports between your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and Paperless.
Manage users, security policies, and platform settings.

Key concepts

SUNAT: Peru's tax and customs authority. The government body that validates and receives electronic documents.
OSE: An authorized third-party operator that validates documents on behalf of SUNAT. Sovos acts as an OSE.
Registro Único de Contribuyentes: Registro Único de Contribuyentes (RUC)is Peru's tax identification number, which is required in all electronic documents.
Impuesto General a las Ventas (IGV): Peru's general sales tax, applied to most commercial transactions.
Orden de Trabajo (OT): A processing unit for generating multiple documents at once.
Extensible Markup Language (XML): The legally valid format for all electronic documents. The standard used in Peru is Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.1.
Constancia de Recepción: Constancia de Recepción (CDR) is the official SUNAT response that confirms acceptance or rejection of a submitted document.
Point of Sale (POS): Integration channel for high-volume retail documents, such as a boleta de venta.
Serie: A prefix that identifies a document series such as "F001". You must define and manage your own series.
Correlativo: The sequential number within a series. Each document has a unique serie + correlativo combination.
Comunicación de Baja: A formal notification to SUNAT that a document is no longer legally valid.
Documento Emitido: A document your company generates and sends.
Documento Recibido: A document you receive from a supplier or trading partner.

Paperless Peru supports the following electronic document types:


Document type	Description	SUNAT code
Factura Electronica (FE)	Standard electronic sales invoice for business-to-business transactions.	01
Boleta de Venta (BV)	Sales receipt for consumer transactions.	03
Nota de Crédito (NC)	Cancels or corrects an issued invoice.	07
Nota de Débito (ND)	Increases the value of an issued invoice.	08
Guia de Remision Electronica (GRE 2.0)	Electronic dispatch guide for goods in transit. Uses the SUNAT REST API.	09
Comprobante de Retención Electrónico (CRE)	Retention certificate.	20
Comprobante de Percepción Electrónico (CPE)	Perception certificate.	40

Note: Not all document types are active for every customer. Contact your Sovos administrator to confirm which types are turned on for your account.


User type	Portal section	Description
Usuarios de Servicios	Panel de Control > Usuarios > Usuarios de Servicios	System accounts for ERP and application integrations.
Usuarios Locales	Panel de Control > Usuarios > Usuarios Locales	People who log in to the portal directly using Single Sign On (SSO) or Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).
Usuarios Externos	Panel de Control > Usuarios > Usuarios Externos	Recipients of documents your company issues. They can view and download only the documents issued to them.

Ambiente de Facturación: Issue documents manually, run bulk invoicing through work orders, manage comunicación de baja and reversiones, run reconciliation reports, and generate sales book reports.
Gestión Documental: Search, view, and download issued and received documents.
Oficina de Partes: Review documents received from suppliers and take commercial approval or rejection actions.
Consola de Procesos: Manage your document series and correlativos, check POS terminals, and set up POS settings.
Reportes de Gestión: Run reports on document volumes, amounts, SUNAT status, and email distribution.
Panel de Control: Manage users, security policies, alarms, templates, distribution rules, branches, and reception rules.