POS and telematic registers connected from 2026. The obligation comes into force from 1 January of the new year but will be concrete starting from March. The objective set by the 2025 Budget Law, which introduced the innovation, is to strengthen controls on the data flow of receipts and electronic payments.
The connection will be virtual and not physical. The instructions on how to proceed, together with the deadlines to be respected, were provided by the Revenue Agency with the provision of 31 October 2025.
How to connect them
To make the connection between POS and electronic registers, the merchant, also through an intermediary, must access his reserved area on the Agency’s website and associate the serial number of the electronic register already registered in the Tax Registry with the identification data of the electronic payment instruments of which he is the owner. To facilitate insertion, the procedure will display to the merchant the list of electronic payment instruments, of which he is the owner, which the financial operators have previously communicated to the Agency. In the event that the electronic storage and telematic transmission of daily fee data are carried out not through an electronic recorder but using the Agency’s web procedure, the connection can be created within the same procedure.
The new features will be made available in the first days of March, starting from the date that will be communicated with a notice on the institutional website.
Alongside the new rule to be respected, a penalty system will also come into force next year with fines of up to 4,000 euros for those who do not comply with the new rules.
Deadlines for POS and electronic receipts
The change will be in force from January 1st but merchants will have time to adapt. For tools already in use at the beginning of 2026, interested parties will have 45 days available from the date of activation of the web tool to proceed with compliance, scheduled for the first days of March.
Once fully operational, for POS and other electronic payment devices put into operation, merchants will have to proceed between the sixth and last day of the second month following the activation date. For example, for an activation from 1 February 2026, the connection registration must be carried out between 6 and 30 April.
Same timing also in case of modification of an already associated instrument.
