Updated 2026-10-06 · 5 min read
Who this is for. VeriFactu is a Spanish tax rule and it applies to salons in Spain, including the many run by owners who don't read Spanish. If your salon is elsewhere, this does not apply to you — your country has its own rules on till software, if any.
If you have a hair or beauty salon in Spain, here's the latest news: on 5 October 2026 the Spanish tax agency announced it is postponing VeriFactu to October 2028, to line it up with compulsory e-invoicing between businesses. When it arrives, your salon's receipts will have to be issued with an adapted invoicing system, and it will affect the one-chair salon exactly as much as the chain with five locations. The good news: you have plenty of time to choose well, with no rush and no last-minute offers.
What VeriFactu is, in plain language
VeriFactu is the name of the system created by Royal Decree 1007/2023 (the anti-fraud law) so that invoicing programs cannot delete or tamper with receipts. Every time you take payment for a service, your software will generate an encrypted record chained to the previous one — like the links of a chain: touch one and it shows — and your receipt will carry a QR code any client (or inspector) can scan to verify it with the tax agency.
In its «Veri*factu» mode, the program itself sends each record to the tax office at the moment. In the other mode, which sends nothing, the program keeps the records signed and chained and only hands them over if the tax office asks. Does that sound like Big Brother? In practice, for a salon that works properly, very little changes: you take payment the same way, only the receipt comes out with a QR code and the system behind it meets certain technical requirements.
The dates that affect you
Watch out for the noise online: these dates have moved several times (originally it was 2026, then January 2027 for companies and July 2027 for the self-employed), so you'll find out-of-date articles everywhere. The announcement of 5 October 2026 is an information note: the postponement will be final once it appears in the Official State Gazette. There's one date that doesn't move and has already passed: since 29 July 2025, software makers can only sell adapted programs. Translation: if you're going to change till or management software, insist that it already complies — buying something today that doesn't is buying a problem.
What if I write my receipts by hand?
Here's the nuance almost nobody explains properly. VeriFactu regulates computerised invoicing systems: if you don't use one today (a paper pad, a purely mechanical till), the rule doesn't force you to go digital. But let's be honest: the moment you use any program to take payment — a touchscreen till, an app, the cash module of your booking software — that program has to comply. And the trade's direction is clear: between VeriFactu, the digital time record coming in and appointment management, the 100% paper salon has its days numbered.
What you should do now (a realistic checklist)
- 1. Ask your current till or cash provider whether their system is adapted, and ask for their written declaration of conformity. If they stall, that's a bad sign.
- 2. If you're thinking of changing program, put VeriFactu on the list of non-negotiable requirements, alongside no lock-in and no commissions.
- 3. Talk to your accountant about your specific case (company vs self-employed) to confirm your date once the postponement is published.
- 4. Don't pay for panic: sellers have sprung up using VeriFactu as a scare tactic with «offers that expire today». With the postponement, even less reason to rush.
And what does ClaudIA have to do with this?
What ClaudIA takes off your plate every week is in the diary, not on the receipt: it answers on WhatsApp and Instagram when you can't, reminds clients of their appointments and asks them to confirm, fills gaps from the waiting list and tells your clients when they're due back. And it has a till: you take payment from the appointment, close the day and see each stylist's figures on one screen. In Spain the till issues payment receipts and prepares for your accountant the summary by day, payment method and VAT rate; the simplified invoice that meets the regulation is being prepared, with nothing for you to send to the tax agency. And if you'd rather keep your adapted till, ClaudIA lives alongside it: your calendar and your till, each to its own. We explain it on the till page.
The essentials, in three lines
On 5 October 2026 the Spanish tax agency announced it is postponing VeriFactu to October 2028 (the Official State Gazette is still to come). When it arrives, the software you take payment with will have to generate tamper-proof records and receipts with a verifiable QR code. In the meantime your job is a single one: make sure whatever you take payment with — your current till or ClaudIA's — comes from a maker with a declaration of conformity.
*This article is informational and doesn't replace advice from your tax adviser. Dates and rules last reviewed: October 2026.*