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Configure Sovos sandbox environment

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Configure Sovos sandbox environment

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You need to collaborate with Sovos to set up your Sovos sandbox (UAT) environment, and depending on the country, Sovos may provide a simulator or a sandbox environment to you. To configure the Sovos sandbox environment, complete the following tasks:

  1. Create Sovos developer accounts at the Sovos Developer Hub, and generate the API key and secret. For more information, see the Getting Started section of the Sovos developer guide. You will use the API key and secret when configuring Sovos as a service provider in Zuora. For more information, see Configure e-invoicing service providers.
  2. Read Sovos country prerequisites and complete the corresponding prerequisite tasks before using Sovos sandbox environments. For more information, see the Country Prerequisites section of the Sovos developer guide. 
    • For some countries, you may need to register with the country's tax authority and get the necessary credentials. You need to configure these credentials in Sovos, and Sovos will use the credentials to submit data to the country's tax authority. 
    • You will use the certificate you get from Sovos when configuring Sovos as a service provider in Zuora. For more information, see Configure e-invoicing service providers.
  3. Contact Sovos to get country-specific SCI samples of the up-to-date versions. You can refer to the e-Invoicing Compliance section of the Sovos developer guide to see what an SCI sample looks like.

  4. Configure e-invoicing in Sovos for a specific country. For this, you must create a company profile in Sovos.

    After obtaining credentials from Sovos and retrieving your organization ID from Sovos, you can call a dedicated configuration endpoint to create a company and assign a product. For more information, see Country Configurations section of the Sovos developer guide.

  5. Get the SenderSystemId for the Sovos sandbox environment from Sovos. The SenderSystemId identifies the system where the transactions are sent.  You will use this information for configuring e-invoice file template.For more information, see Create and test e-invoice file templates.

You will perform the same tasks above in the Sovos production environment. You can perform each task in Sovos production environment immediately after performing the same in Sovos sandbox environment without completing all Sovos sandbox environment configurations. For more information, see Launch on production environment.