How to Build a Reliable RCTI Workflow: Snapshots, Validation, and PDFs
A recipient-created tax invoice (RCTI) is a legally sensitive document in Australia, issued by the recipient rather than the supplier, and subject to ATO rules on party identification, GST status, and written agreements. Software handling RCTIs should treat document generation as a multi-step state transition — from draft through validation and calculation to an immutable stored snapshot — rather than a simple form-to-PDF conversion. Immutable snapshots are critical because a supplier's mutable business profile should never silently alter historical invoice records. ABN lookup results must be handled with distinct error states so users can recover from inactive, not-found, or unavailable responses accurately. Financial totals should be stored as integer cents to avoid JavaScript floating-point errors, with decimal input parsed only once at the data boundary.
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