Environments

Both the use case of a request (validate or send) and environment the solution is operating (development or production) have an effect on whether a filing is received and processed by the tax authorities. There are two environments available:

• development Intended for testing. The tax authorities do not process the transferred data.

• production Going live to production with the solution. Data is generally processed by the tax authorities.

The environment is controlled by setting APP_ENV in .env.

The constellation of use cases and setting the environment results in the following four types of calls:

1 - Validate request in development environment

• The message is drafted locally. There is no data exchange with the tax authorities.

• Prints on protocol: Preview (black, German: „Vorschau“) and test case (red, German; „Testfall“)

2 - Send request in development environment

• A test transmission to the tax office is performed. The message is sent, but it is not processed by the tax authorities.

• Prints on protocol: Test case (red, German; „Testfall“), date and time of transmission (German: "Sendedatum") and transfer ticket on the side

3 - Validate request in production environment

• The message is drafted locally. There is no data exchange with the tax authorities.

• Prints on protocol: Preview (black, German: „Vorschau“)

4 - Send request in production environment

• A transmission to the tax office is performed. The message is sent and is processed by the tax authorities.

• Prints on protocol: Date and time of transmission (German: "Sendedatum") and transfer ticket on the side