What’s Bokföringslagen and how does it affect digital receipts?

Bokföringslagen (the Swedish Accounting Act) requires every business to retain accounting records (invoices, receipts, credit memos, refund logs) for seven years in immutable digital form. Bokföringsverket (the Accounting Standards Board) publishes detailed format and retention rules.

For Magento this means:

• Every order generates a structured PDF or e-invoice (Peppol / SVE-format) with VAT-rate breakdown, organisationsnummer, payment method, refund chain.
• Records must be immutable, we wire Magento’s order grid to push to S3 / Glesys storage with versioning, plus your accounting tool (Visma / Fortnox).
• No silent edits, corrections via credit-memo-then-new-invoice, never inline edits.

Visma + Fortnox are the dominant Swedish accounting tools and both have native Magento connectors.