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Croatia is first in a lot of things, and our 'ambitious bureaucrats' added 'Fiscalization 2.0' to the list.

A quick primer for non-Croatians. From 1 July 2030, all EU VAT-registered businesses will be required to issue structured e-Invoices for cross-border B2B transactions. In this new setting, we're required to send/receive invoices only in UBL XML format - which should make PDF format obsolete.

But we like our invoices human readable! So we're experimenting with a web application that takes those pesky XMLs and converts them to PDFs. The app supports PDFs, XMLs and ZIP batch uploads / downloads, 2D barcode paying UI and internal navigation for traversing through uploaded invoices. The processing is done 100% privately inside your browser, without any backend peeping into your precious accounting practices.

This 'bookkeeping rebellion' tool is free, you can use it right away. Please send us comments, bugs or feature requests - as this is all an early prototype - https://ubl.neuralab.net/

We relaunched our catalog! And you know what - our designers doubled down on the "tilted showcase" style 🫣
https://www.neuralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/NRLB-catalog-2026.pdf

Two days ago we organized a WooCommerce Zagreb meetup. Couple of notes from the pen of our CEO Kresimir:

- Shani Banerjee & Brian Coords spoke about high performance angle in every platform decision (note the HPOS in the pic), A11Y; and naturally, how A8C is working with both Open AI / Google on Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) and Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).

- One puzzling question was about the eCommerce's next steps. Will merchants allow agentic, manual, chatbot, offsite, onsite checkout process? Currently, "nobody knows anything"; but our gut feeling is that the answer to all these questions is inclusive, rather than exclusive.

- Brent MacKinnon presented neat datapoints about WooCommerce usage. Third of all merchants use Woo. More and more, Woo is used for big or complex projects, which is also what we track. 54% of orders are coming from merchants that are doing more than $1M anually. Another stat is that Woo merchants are highly diversified bunch (home, toolings, apparel, food, drinks, beauty, fitness etc.) This is in stark contrast to Shopify where 'apparel' is the standout leader.

All in all, thanks to everybody for making this happen: Holographik Space for the amazing venue and pro approach, Automattic team for making the trip, and our Bruno Zagorščak chief organizer