Panama DGI Electronic Invoicing
DGI-certified PAC for Panama's mandatory electronic invoicing. Automated ITBMS, XML and PDF generation, native CifraHQ integration. Ready for the 2026 mandate expansion.
Since 1987
Grupo Barrdega
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What the DGI requires
Panama's Dirección General de Ingresos (DGI) rolled out the country's electronic invoicing system (SFEP) progressively: paper invoices and traditional fiscal printers have been replaced by the Comprobante Fiscal Electrónico — a digitally signed XML document that must be authorized before it reaches the customer. Businesses invoice through a certified PAC (Proveedor de Autorización Calificado), the authorized technical intermediary that validates each document with the DGI and returns its unique authorization code (CUFE) in seconds.
In practice, compliance means four things: issuing every document in the DGI's XML format, obtaining online authorization through a PAC before delivery, applying the correct ITBMS rate per product line (7% general rate plus special rates and exemptions), and retaining the electronic backups. For foreign companies operating Panamanian subsidiaries, this is a hard local requirement — a global billing system without DGI certification cannot produce a fiscally valid invoice in Panama.
FacturaHQ: certified PAC for Panama
DGI-certified
transmits CFEs directly to the authority
Automated ITBMS calculation (7% general, 10%/15% special rates, exemptions)
XML + PDF document generation
Credit notes, debit notes, and cancellation workflows
Contingency mode when DGI is temporarily unavailable
Native integration with CifraHQ ERP
REST API for integration with SAP, Oracle, or any other ERP
Getting compliant
Identify your DGI compliance deadline (it depends on your tax regime)
Evaluate certified PACs
FacturaHQ among them
Integrate the PAC with your accounting system
Train your admin team on cancellation and note workflows
Archive XML backups for the DGI-mandated retention period
Why international operators choose a local PAC platform
Multinationals entering Panama usually face the same choice: bolt a local compliance module onto the global ERP, or run a local invoicing platform that integrates back into it. The first option leaves the riskiest part of the flow — DGI authorization, ITBMS accuracy, contingency handling — inside a system maintained far from Panama. FacturaHQ keeps that layer local and certified, then feeds the results to your ERP through its native CifraHQ integration or a REST API for SAP and Oracle.
Free-zone operators have an extra wrinkle: transactions inside the Colón Free Zone, re-exports, and sales into the fiscal territory each carry different ITBMS treatment. P4 covers that scenario across its cloud WMS and invoicing stack — see the Panama country page for the full local picture.
Products behind this
FacturaHQ issues and authorizes; CifraHQ does the accounting. One platform.
Billing in more countries than Panama? See P4's e-invoicing software for Latin America, covering Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil from the same platform.