🇬🇷 Greece — Electronic Invoicing & STR Compliance (Complete Guide)

Who is this guide for?

This guide explains how Electronic Invoicing (e-Invoicing) and Short-Term Rental (STR) compliance work in Greece, and how Chekin supports them.

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Understanding host types in Greece (very important)

Greek legislation (Law 5073/2023, amending Law 4446/2016) distinguishes between Non-Professional and Professional hosts.

🟡 Non-Professional Hosts (Casual / Small Hosts)

You are a Non-Professional Host if:

• You are a natural person (individual), and

• You rent out up to 2 properties for short-term stays.

Key characteristics

• Income is classified as income from immovable property

• Simplified tax obligations

• No business VAT obligation

• Typically no certified e-invoicing provider required

What Chekin supports

• AMA capture and registry consistency

• Short-Term Stay Declarations preparation and tracking

• Climate fee (TAKK) calculation and receipt

• myDATA-ready exports (for accountant handoff)

👉 Full certified e-invoicing via providers like ILYDA is usually NOT required for this profile.

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🟢 Professional Hosts (Business Activity)

You are a Professional Host if:

• You are an individual renting 3 or more properties, or

• You are a legal entity (company), regardless of property count.

Key characteristics

• Activity is classified as business income

• VAT obligations apply (13% from Jan 1, 2024)

• myDATA reporting is mandatory

• Certified e-invoicing providers are required

What Chekin supports

• Full certified e-invoicing via ILYDA

• myDATA-ready invoice submission

• VAT handling

• TAKK (Climate Crisis Resilience Fee)

• STR declarations, amendments, cancellations

• Accountant-friendly exports and logs

👉 This guide applies fully to Professional Hosts.

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What is Electronic Invoicing (e-Invoicing)?

Electronic invoicing is the process of creating invoices in a structured digital format and submitting them directly to the AADE myDATA platform, replacing PDFs or paper invoices for official reporting.

Chekin automates this process so that invoices:

• Are generated from booking data

• Follow legal formats

• Are submitted automatically to the authorities

• Can be tracked and audited easily

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How e-Invoicing works in Chekin (high level)

1. One-time activation (Professional hosts only)

2. Property & PMS sync

3. Supplier configuration

4. Invoice sending rules

5. Tax logic (VAT, TAKK, submission categories)

6. Status tracking & document access

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STEP 1 — Activate certified e-Invoicing (Professional Hosts only)

Chekin uses ILYDA, a certified Greek e-invoicing provider.

1.1 Authorize ILYDA in Taxisnet

1. Log in to Taxisnet
   https://www1.gsis.gr/taxisnet/mytaxisnet
   

2. Go to Authorizations

3. Under Providers of E-Invoicing, click New

4. Enter ILYDA VAT number: 094359854

5. Submit

⏱ Authorization becomes active within ~1 hour.

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1.2 Contract & company information

You’ll be asked to provide:

• Company name

• VAT number

• Legal representative

• Email & phone

• Main activity

• ΓΕΜΗ number (optional)

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1.3 AADE declaration of exclusive issuing

1. Log in to
   https://www1.aade.gr/saadeapps2/bookkeeper-web/bookkeeper/#!/declaration

2. Create a New declaration of exclusive issuing

3. Accept GDPR

4. Fill in contract dates

5. Select ILYDA (Meg myDATA) as provider

6. Submit and save a screenshot

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1.4 Final activation

Send to ndimitropoulos@ilyda.com:

• Signed contract

• Declaration screenshot

 

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STEP 2 — Prepare your property in Chekin

For both host types:

1. Connect your PMS

2. Sync properties

3. Turn on Payments (if required)

4. Create Supplier

5. Sync bookings

6. Go to Housing → Invoice settings

7. Sync items

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STEP 3 — Supplier configuration (Professional Hosts)

Each property = one Supplier.

You must configure:

• Supplier legal name

• VAT number

• Default VAT rate

• Payment method (displayed on invoice)

• Property type

• Full address

• Invoice numbering (series + start number)

 

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STEP 4 — Invoice sending rules

Choose how invoices are issued:

Manual

• You send invoices booking by booking.

Automatic

• Per booking (triggered by checkout)

• Monthly bulk (sent on a fixed calendar day)

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STEP 5 — Taxes, items & myDATA logic (Professional Hosts)

Submission categories

Invoices are submitted as aggregated totals, not line-by-line items:

• General Invoice (revenue)

• Tourist Tax / TAKK

• Accommodation Tax (if applicable)

Climate fee (TAKK)

• Calculated per stay

• Based on season and property type

• Receipt automatically generated

VAT (Professional Hosts only)

• 13% VAT applied from 1 Jan 2024

• myDATA-ready invoice output

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STEP 6 — Review & tracking

Invoices and declarations are available:

• Inside each booking

• In Documents
  
  

• With clear status (Generated / Submitted / Failed)

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Summary — Greece

• Non-Professional Hosts: STR declarations + TAKK + myDATA exports (no certified provider needed)

• Professional Hosts: Full certified e-invoicing via ILYDA

• Same platform, same PMS — you scale without changing tools