Verifactu in your salon: what it is, when it arrives and what is worth preparing

If you run a salon in Spain, you have probably heard about Verifactu and that "the invoicing software has to change". A lot of contradictory information goes around, partly because the dates have moved more than once, most recently in October 2026. Let us make it clear and jargon-free: what it is, when it affects you and what is worth doing.

What Verifactu is, in one sentence

Verifactu is a set of requirements the Spanish Tax Agency places on invoicing software so that invoices are reliable and unalterable: each invoice generates a digital fingerprint that cannot be deleted or changed afterwards, and carries a QR code. The aim is to make fraud harder. It is not a new tax return and it does not change how you work: it is a technical requirement on the software you invoice with.

The dates that stand today

On 5 October 2026 the Spanish Tax Agency announced that Verifactu is postponed to October 2028, to coincide with the arrival of business-to-business e-invoicing.

Until that announcement, the dates were those of Royal Decree-Law 15/2025: 1 January 2027 for companies and 1 July 2027 for the self-employed and professionals. If you read somewhere that "Verifactu is mandatory in 2027", it was written before the postponement.

The announcement was made in an information note. As always with tax deadlines, the reference is the Tax Agency's own website, which is where any change is published.

Does it affect you?

It depends on how you invoice:

• If you use software to invoice (management software, a POS, etc.), Verifactu will apply to you and that software will have to be adapted by the date.
• If you invoice entirely by hand, on paper or a receipt book, you are outside Verifactu (though it is an increasingly impractical option).
• There are exceptions, such as businesses already on the VAT SII scheme or under the provincial regimes: the Basque Country has TicketBAI and Navarre its own system. We cover it in TicketBAI or Verifactu: which one applies.

What is worth doing meanwhile

The postponement gives you time, and that time is best used putting what happens every day in order rather than waiting for the date:

1. Make sure every payment is recorded. What is charged and not recorded is what later does not balance, with or without Verifactu.
2. Get the month to your accountant in order. By day, by payment method and by VAT rate, with nobody copying anything by hand.
3. Ask your invoicing provider how and when they will adapt. A clear answer today saves a rush in 2028.

What ClaudIA's till does

In a salon, payment does not live in isolation: it is tied to the schedule and the appointment. In ClaudIA you take payment from the appointment itself, balance the day by payment method, and your accountant gets what was collected sorted by day, by payment method and by VAT rate — or IGIC in the Canary Islands. Every payment comes with its own numbered receipt, and a correction is a new document, never an edit.

And if you already have a POS and would rather keep it, there is no choice to make: ClaudIA sits alongside it without duplicating work. You can see how ClaudIA works for beauty salons and what it handles for you today.

For everything else, the advice is the usual: get your information from reliable sources — the Tax Agency's own website publishes the official notes with the deadlines — and use the time to reach the date with your day-to-day already in order.