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Invoicing across locations — one company or many?

The law cares about who issues an invoice. Two restaurants owned by one company invoice as one entity with one number sequence; two restaurants owned by two companies invoice independently.

The rule

Pick the issuing mode when the group is created. Invoices snapshot the legal entity at the moment of issue, so historic ones stay immutable forever — even after you edit the registration later.

Single company across every location

Most owner-operated groups. Both restaurants belong to one company, you file one VAT return.

Io Osteria S.R.L. — Partita IVA IT12345678901 — Branch 01 Invoice FA-2026-01-0042

The sequence is company-wide: FA-2026-01-0042 at one location is followed by FA-2026-02-0043 at the other. The 01 and 02 say which branch issued it; the running count is shared, because the law requires it to be gapless across the company.

Each location independent

Franchise and federated groups. The locations share the brand — recipes, menu — but each is its own legal entity with its own VAT filing and its own counter.

Io Osteria S.R.L. — Partita IVA IT12345678901 Invoice FA-2026-0042

No branch code, because there’s nothing to disambiguate.

Good to know

  • Changing the mode after invoices exist isn’t a settings tweak — the numbering already issued has legal meaning. Talk to us before you need it.
  • Editing a registration detail affects future invoices only. Past ones keep the entity as it was.
  • The branch code is part of the number, not decoration: it’s how an auditor tells two locations apart inside one gapless sequence.