Traxion One checks each fiscal document the moment it's issued, signs it to your business, stores it where it can't be altered, and forwards it to BIR EIS. Your sales keep moving even when the internet doesn't.
Philippine-incorporated systems integrator and EIS operator.
An established fiscal data and e-invoicing platform, delivered through the SmartOne product framework.
Receipts, invoices, refunds and Z-reports all go through the same path. Nothing reaches BIR that hasn't been checked, signed and sealed first.
The Fiscal Compliance and Validation Engine checks identity, schema, tax math, sequence and signature before anything is accepted.
Each document is cryptographically signed under X.509 PKI, bound to the merchant's verified identity.
Records live in append-only storage with hash-chain integrity checks. Once written, they can't be quietly changed.
Anomalies, sequence breaks and replay attempts are flagged to the tax authority as they happen, not months later.
Pick the channel that matches how your business actually runs. Every route ends with a validated, signed document in BIR EIS.
Real-time fiscalization for connected stores
Keep selling through outages, without losing the audit trail
Offline limits (window length, documents per session, monthly cap per device) are set jointly with BIR during onboarding.
The full invoice lifecycle, built to BIR's schema
Micro-businesses and mobile traders under BIR e-invoicing scope can issue compliant documents without buying a separate register, where BIR rules allow.
Cryptographic operations run through a secure certificate store or an electronic token on the phone.
Register with the tax authority without visiting an office.
Tax amounts calculated as you sell, ready when it's time to pay.
Connect the merchant account to online banking and accept payments from individuals and companies.
A hierarchical X.509 PKI with two trust branches. Certificate authority keys are generated inside the HSM and never leave it. If one end certificate is compromised, the damage stays with that one device, workplace or vendor.
Top of the trust chain
HSM-resident keyIssued by the Root CA per certified ECR/POS manufacturer and model
One per merchant
HSM-resident keyFor e-invoicing, per merchant or API workplace
One per ECR or POS terminal
Delivered as PKCS#12Revocations propagate in under a second inside the security perimeter and are reconciled against published CRLs on schedule.
SHA-256 chains anchored by HSM-signed integrity seals. Tampering with any one of them shows up on its own, which gives auditors clean forensic boundaries.
| Fiscal operations | Individual sale and refund documents |
| Shift closure | Z-report closure records |
| Shift totals | Payments, taxes and document totals per Z-report |
| Invoices | Issued B2B and B2C invoices |
Horizontally scalable microservices behind one secure perimeter. Inside it: the HSM and security storage, the fiscal data and integration layer, an operational SQL database and a separate document store. The Merchant Management System issues keys and certificates. Merchants, consumers and tax offices each reach the platform through their own secured channel.
Indexes, statuses, merchant and device registration, document metadata, dashboards and VAT support.
The primary fiscal documents in JSON: receipts, invoices, Z-reports and offline packages. Append-only at the collection level. The database engine itself rejects updates and deletes.
Retention without integrity is just custody. Every retained record is cryptographically protected.
| Metric | Reference range |
|---|---|
| Monthly availability | 99.9% or better |
| API SLA tiers | 99.9% / 99.95% / 99.99% |
| Recovery time (RTO) | 1 to 4 hours |
| Recovery point (RPO) | 0 to 15 minutes |
| P1 incident response | 15 minutes to 4 hours |
| If this happens | Merchant sees | Data |
|---|---|---|
| Store internet down (up to 72h) | Offline mode, sales continue | WORM memory, syncs on reconnect |
| Short platform outage (< 30 min) | Stays online with retry | No data loss |
| Long platform outage (30 min to 24h) | Switches to offline mode | Held locally for sync |
| Full data center failure | Nothing, it's transparent | Replicated to DR site |
| Regional disaster | Nothing, it's transparent | Geo-distributed backup |
A dedicated control layer guards against abuse at the transaction level, across six areas.
Issue B2B and B2C invoices, accept payments, and track every document from one dashboard. No cash register needed for online issuance.
The Tax Engine adds up output VAT from your sales and input VAT from your purchases as documents flow through. At period end it prepares a VAT declaration for you to review. Where BIR rules permit, the approved return goes straight to BIR through the configured channel.
The same logic flags things worth a second look: Z-reports that don't match their documents, unusual input VAT patterns, or a spike in refunds.
Our field team handles the technical setup. You focus on running the business.
Register with BIR: RDO assignment, TIN, and ATP/PTU where applicable
Apply through Traxion as your EIS operator
BIR verifies the merchant
Branches, sales points or e-invoicing workplaces registered on the platform
Invoice and device certificates issued
Traxion field team configures your ECR, POS or e-invoicing workplace
Test submission to the BIR EIS sandbox
Production go-live
Each challenge below is documented in public sources from 2023 onward.
The Philippines trails the ASEAN average of 57% and Thailand at 71 to 79%.
Asian Consulting Group analysis citing BIR data, February 2026Real-time validation of every receipt and invoice, with independent recalculation of VAT, levies and discounts. Continuous monitoring replaces after-the-fact audits.
Around 20.6 million Filipinos remain in informal employment.
FINEX, February 2026; BusinessWorld citing IBON Foundation, February 2026Consumer incentives like cashback and receipt lotteries shift enforcement from vendor inspections to customer demand. The smartphone channel removes the cost barrier for micro-merchants entering the formal system.
Lost in 2023. Illegal products grew from 11.5% of the market in 2020 to 19.8% in 2023, about 11 billion of 55.6 billion sticks.
Philippine Star citing BIR, May 2024; Philippine Star citing Senate hearing data, January 2025Stick-level fiscal control by linking the platform with track and trace: pack ID activation at retail, fiscal receipts per stick, and reconciliation of activated packs against registered sales.
The BIR Commissioner has called the problem alarming after decades of weak detection. In one batch alone, BIR filed complaints against 23 corporations, 56 officers and 17 CPAs.
Ateneo de Manila University citing BIR, August 2024; Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 2025Every document is signed by a certificate bound to the merchant. Hash chains stop fabrication and back-dating. Anyone, auditor or counterparty, can check authenticity by QR without needing credentials.
The EIS pilot that began in July 2022 was paused in November 2023 over technical issues and restarted in March 2025. The current mandate runs to the end of 2026.
The Invoicing Hub, March 2026; VATCalc, October 2025A production-grade platform already running at national scale elsewhere, integrated to adapt to the EIS specification rather than compete with it. Includes a sandbox, contract testing, mock servers and joint UAT before cutover.
A platform doesn't solve these problems on its own. Policy, enforcement and institutional change remain the State's tools. What the platform gives them is a reliable data foundation: every fiscal document validated, certified, protected and monitored.
Inspections alone rarely fix tax-base erosion in informal retail. When customers ask for official receipts, staying informal stops making sense for the seller.
Every receipt carries a QR code. The customer scans it, signs in to a BIR citizen portal and registers the receipt. A share of the VAT paid comes back monthly, with a higher rate for cashless payments, sent to a bank account or e-wallet.
Each registered receipt is one entry in a weekly or monthly draw run by BIR with auditable random selection. Small effort for the customer, a real prize at stake.
Cashback rates and prize structures are policy choices for the State, to be set together with BIR and the Department of Finance.
Real-time visibility of e-invoice flow across the country
A structured, validated, machine-readable feed into BIR EIS
Less dependence on retrospective audits, thanks to transaction-level compliance signals
Automatic VAT pre-fill for merchants and cross-check signals for BIR
QR verification of every receipt and invoice by consumers and recipients
Compliant with the National Internal Revenue Code, BIR e-invoicing regulations and the Data Privacy Act of 2012
Traxion is the contracting and operational counterparty for the BIR EIS programme. Talk to us about onboarding your business, integrating your POS or ERP, or working with us as a government partner.