Oat and coconut drinks for baristas
Mølk makes plant-based drinks, and the shop leads with its Barista range. The homepage shows a carton of coconut Barista being poured, the menu has Drinks, Merch and a B2B page, and a banner at the top offers free delivery inside Germany above 35 euros. The shop's own description says the oat drink was developed for the hospitality trade.
So some buyers order for themselves and others buy for a cafe. A cafe wants an invoice it can book.
Two VAT rates and a business buyer
Food and drink in Germany sit under two VAT rates, 7 and 19 percent, and which one applies depends on the product. The edges are not always intuitive, so the rate belongs on every invoice line and the merchant's tax adviser decides what it is.
A business customer needs the invoice to hold up. Under section 14 of the VAT act that means seller and buyer names and addresses, a tax number or USt-IdNr., the date, a consecutive invoice number, the delivery date, the net amount, the rate and the tax amount. Without them the cafe may lose the input VAT deduction on its purchase.
E-invoicing is the other thing to watch. German businesses have had to be able to receive structured e-invoices since January 2025, and sending becomes mandatory in 2027 or 2028 depending on turnover. A shop with a B2B page on its storefront should plan for it.
What the setup includes
Mølk has used PDF Invoice since 2021, and the app has sent 42,000+ documents. The invoice template is the London layout, set to German. The setting that picks the invoice language from the customer is on, and so is the multiple languages option.
Three more switches matter here. Invoices are emailed automatically. Barcodes are enabled, which the sample on this page shows under each product line. SFTP and FTP export is on, which sends invoice files to a server the merchant chooses instead of waiting for someone to download them. The account also has a separate refund template.
Nothing on the sample is real. The customer, the address, the IDs and the prices are invented. The made-up order is three cartons of oat, two of coconut and a tote bag, which comes to 89.75 euros net, 17.05 euros of USt at 19 percent and 106.80 euros in total with free delivery. The product lines only follow the kind of cartons and merchandise the shop sells.
What can be said about results
The headline figure is 42,000+ documents sent since 2021, by email and by file export to a server. A shop that ships cartons to cafes and consumers cannot issue every document by hand, and the account is built around that, with automatic emails, file export and language handling in place.
We have no review quote for this shop and no figures on time saved, so none are claimed.
Next step
If you sell to both consumers and businesses, PDF Invoice on the Shopify App Store lets you set the template, language and delivery once. The free invoice audit shows what a German invoice is still missing.