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Invoicing and Payment - Foreign Suppliers

General requirements

SDU does not accept Proforma invoices.

All invoices must include:

  • Invoice number and date
  • Name and address of the beneficiary/account holder
  • Relevant company ID number:
    • VAT number (EU suppliers)
    • Federal ID or EIN (USA)
    • GST number (Canada)
    • PAN number (India)
    • ABN (Australia)
    • If none is available, please state the reason
  • Name and address of SDU
  • SDU’s VAT number (DK29283958) for EU suppliers if reverse charge applies
  • Description of the delivered goods or services
  • Price of the delivered goods or services
  • Complete bank information of the supplier (see regional requirements below)

Bank information requirements

Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands

  • Registration number and Account number, or
  • IBAN and SWIFT (BIC)

EU and Israel

  • Beneficiary/account holder name and address
  • Bank name
  • IBAN
  • SWIFT (BIC)

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA

  • Beneficiary/account holder name and address
  • Bank name
  • Account number
  • SWIFT (BIC)
  • Routing number:
    • Australia (BSB – 6 digits)
    • Canada and USA (ABA – 9 digits)
    • New Zealand (6 digits)

India

  • Beneficiary/account holder name and address
  • Invoice number and description of goods/services
  • IFSC code (4 letters – 0 – 6 digits) after the bank name
  • Payment purpose (mandatory for INR payments)
  • For private recipients, also include:
    • Relationship between sender and receiver
    • Payment purpose
    • Account type of the beneficiary

Japan, Jordan

  • Beneficiary/account holder name and address
  • Bank name (and alternative bank name if applicable)
  • Account number
  • SWIFT (BIC)

Invoices from Jordan must be issued in USD or EUR.

Rest of the world

  • Beneficiary/account holder name and address
  • Bank name
  • Account number
  • SWIFT (BIC)

IBAN and special requirements

Some countries have specific rules for how IBAN numbers are structured (information available in Danish only).

Read more about IBAN requirements (in Danish)