Bulk download of invoices from the Italian Revenue Agency, step by step
How to request all issued and received invoices from Fatture e Corrispettivi with the XML request files, ready to download for each quarter.
The Fatture e Corrispettivi portal of the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) lets you request all the invoices of a period in bulk. You can fill in the request by hand, one at a time, or upload it as an XML file. Below you can prepare the files for every quarter of last year and this year, for issued and for received invoices: then you just upload them to the portal.
1. Prepare the request files
Enter the VAT number (Partita IVA) you want to download the invoices for: it must be the one you are operating on in the portal.
Each file is one request: one quarter, either issued or received invoices. It contains only the VAT number and the dates, and it is not stored: it is created at the moment of the download. The VAT number written in the address ends up in the server logs as described in the privacy policy. If you downloaded the ZIP, extract it before uploading the files to the portal.
2. Sign in to Fatture e Corrispettivi
Sign in to the Fatture e Corrispettivi portal with SPID, CIE or CNS (the Italian digital identity, electronic ID card or national services card). Check at the top which VAT number you are operating on: it is the only one the portal accepts in requests. For another company use “Cambia Utenza” (change user).
3. Open “Consultazioni e download massivi”
On the services page scroll down to the Consultazione (consultation) box and choose Consultazioni e download massivi (consultations and bulk downloads).
4. Upload the requests
In the menu on the left, under Richieste (requests), choose Fatture Elettroniche (e-invoices). In the Upload file XML box select a request file and click Invia richiesta (send request). Repeat for each file: one request per quarter, issued and received.
The “Creazione richiesta guidata” (guided request creation) on the right does the same thing by filling in the fields by hand, one request at a time.
5. Download the invoices
The portal processes the requests later, not immediately. When they are ready, you download the invoice files from the same “Consultazioni e download massivi” area: for each request a ZIP archive with the invoices and their metadata.
6. Analyse them on e-invoices.it
Upload here all the ZIP files together, without extracting them, and choose Excel summary or Dashboard. All the details are in the guide to the bulk download to Excel.