E-invoicing is becoming mandatory across Europe. Belgium's mandate is already in effect, Germany requires businesses to accept e-invoices since January 2025, and France's mandate starts in September 2026. Here is a guide to help you understand what is changing, when it affects you, and how HikaShop can help you stay compliant.
Read on for country-by-country timelines, invoice format explanations, and our ready-to-use solutions.

HikaShop 6.4.0 is a landmark release: HikaShop now works on WordPress. This version also introduces AI-powered purchasing via the UCP protocol, an OpenAI / ChatGPT Shopping product feed, five new product page layouts, a cross-CMS migration tool, and many backend improvements.
Let's dive into the major new features of this release.

HikaShop 6.3.0 brings powerful migration tools, a new way to customize your address forms, and significant performance boost to imports. This release focuses on ease of use, migrations, and developer flexibility.
Let's dive into the major new features of this release.

HikaShop 6.2.0 is here to start the year with a bang! This new version brings compliance with new EU regulations, enhances multimedia capabilities for products, expands geolocation options, and introduces powerful automation tools with MCP integration.
In this post, we'll highlight the main changes you'll want to know about.

HikaShop 6.1.1 is the first release of HikaShop since the release of Joomla 6.0.0. It contains several patches for better compatibility with this new version of Joomla. Also, it brings webhooks and API automation to your webshop among other things.
In this post we'll highlight the main changes you’ll want to know about.

HikaShop 6 keeps improving the foundations introduced in the 6.0 line while polishing the everyday experience for shop owners and customers. Version 6.1.0 focuses on quality-of-life improvements (backend and checkout), fixes several edge-case bugs introduced during the 6.0 rollout, and adds a few small but handy frontend and plugin features — think: a drawer-style cart, a frontend logout button, more control on emails and tighter affiliate and shipping tools.
In this post we'll highlight the main changes you’ll want to know about.

There are several news around HikaShop plugins, including a brand new plugin for DHL and lots of various updates.
We'll talk here a bit more about each one.

HikaShop version 5 continues its evolution to be ever more efficient! With this 5.1.3 version of HikaShop, the progress is around interfaces with social networks and email customizations.
In this article, we'll cover the main features that were added to this version.