Payment details and the SEPA QR code
How bank details appear on your invoices and the three conditions the scan-to-pay SEPA QR code needs: SEPA account, valid IBAN, EUR currency.
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Invoices print a payment section with your bank details so clients know where to send the money. For euro invoices from a SEPA account, TimeBill adds an EPC "scan-to-pay" QR code that banking apps can read to prefill the transfer.
Entering your bank details
- Open Your Details from the project sidebar (full setup guide).
- Under Payment Information, fill in Bank Name and Account Holder.
- Choose the Account Type: SEPA (EU) is the default; US Banking, UK Banking, BSB (Australia), IFSC (India), CNAPS (China), and Zengin (Japan) are also available.
- Fill the account fields, which relabel per type: IBAN and BIC/SWIFT for SEPA, Account Number plus ABA/Routing (US), Sort Code (UK), BSB Code, IFSC Code, CNAPS Code, or Bank-Branch Code (Japan).
- Click Save.
If you enter no bank details at all, the payment section is hidden on your invoices automatically, and the default templates reclaim the space for the items table. That's by design, not an error.
When the QR code appears
The SEPA Credit Transfer QR code is printed only when all three conditions are met:
- The Account Type is SEPA (EU).
- The IBAN passes checksum validation (spaces and lowercase are fine; a single mistyped character makes it fail).
- The invoice's Currency is EUR; other currencies never get a QR code (about the currency setting).
If your invoice is missing the QR code or the whole payment section, work through Payment section or QR code missing from an invoice.
Styling the payment section
The payment section's look is part of the invoice template. In the template editor's Payment tab you can toggle Box Background (turn it off to render payment details as plain text, which is useful over letterhead stationery), and control the QR with Show QR Code and Center QR Code. The editor itself notes: "The QR code is only generated for SEPA (EU) bank details." See Customizing invoice templates.
Payment details and e-invoicing
Electronic invoices (ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, XRechnung) require SEPA payment data: a non-SEPA account type or an invalid IBAN blocks the export, and the blocker list will show items like "SEPA account type" or "Valid IBAN". If you bank outside the SEPA zone, you can still send classic PDF invoices, just not e-invoices.