fiskaly expands into Sweden with InfraSec acquisition, advancing its pan-European VAT compliance strategy
For retailers and POS vendors operating across Europe, fiscal compliance and VAT reporting remain among the least visible — and most complex — barriers to scale. While payment flows and commerce software increasingly cross borders with ease, fiscalization rules for POS systems remain firmly national. Each country defines its own technical, legal and certification requirements, creating a fragmented regulatory landscape that challenges even the most sophisticated retail platforms.
Vienna-based fiskaly, a provider of cloud-based fiscalization and VAT compliance solutions, has built its business around navigating that fragmentation. With the recent acquisition of InfraSec Sweden AB, fiskaly adds Sweden to its European footprint and strengthens its ambition to become a pan-European compliance layer for POS systems and retailers. Max Marx, PR & Communications Manager DACH at fiskaly, explained to us how the company approaches fiscalization, why InfraSec fits strategically, and how the acquisition supports fiskaly’s long-term product vision.
Europe’s fiscalization challenge for retailers and POS providers
According to Marx, the core challenge for European retailers and POS vendors is not compliance itself, but inconsistency. “Every country has its own fiscalization and VAT compliance rules — from real-time transaction reporting to certified digital signatures and archiving formats,” he says.
For merchants operating in a single market, these requirements are manageable. For international POS providers and retail chains, they quickly become a structural constraint. Each market introduces new legal frameworks, technical standards and certification processes, often with little overlap.
The result is a compliance environment that demands country-specific solutions, duplicated development effort and constant regulatory monitoring. This fragmentation has historically reinforced the use of local, hardware-based fiscal solutions — systems that are difficult to scale, slow to update and poorly aligned with modern, cloud-native POS architectures.
Local VAT compliance, built on a unified API approach
fiskaly’s response has been to combine strict local VAT and fiscal compliance with a broader, API-driven architecture. The company provides country-specific fiscal solutions that reflect local legal requirements, while working closely with POS vendors, software providers and merchants to guide them through implementation and certification.
Today, fiskaly operates in Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, France and Sweden. In each of these markets, local regulatory expertise plays a central role. “Because fiscal rules differ significantly between countries, our focus is always on local expertise, regulatory fit, and seamless integration,” Marx explains.
At the same time, fiskaly is building a unified pan-European API that abstracts those national differences for international vendors. The goal is to enable POS providers to integrate once, while fiskaly manages the country-specific fiscal requirements in the background — reducing technical complexity without compromising regulatory compliance.
Cloud-first fiscalization as a competitive advantage
Founded in Vienna in 2019 by Johannes Ferner (CEO), Simon Tragatschnig (COO) and Patrick Gaubatz (CTO), fiskaly set out to modernise fiscalization from the outset. The company’s founding premise was that fiscal compliance does not require dedicated hardware.
Its solutions are fully cloud-based and API-first, designed to integrate directly into modern POS and retail software stacks. One of its core products, fiskaly SIGN, generates tamper-proof digital transaction signatures in the cloud, meeting legal requirements without external hardware components.
This cloud-first approach offers clear advantages in scalability, operational efficiency and long-term maintainability, particularly for POS vendors operating across multiple European markets.
Five years after its founding, fiskaly’s services are used at more than one million POS endpoints and by over 1,600 B2B customers across six European countries. The company has grown from a three-person startup into a team of more than 120 professionals, combining engineering scale with deep regulatory expertise.
Why InfraSec Sweden strengthens fiskaly’s Nordic presence
The acquisition of InfraSec Sweden AB brings fiskaly into a new regulatory environment, but not into unfamiliar territory. InfraSec is Sweden’s leading VAT compliance provider for POS systems, offering a cloud-based solution already used by a broad network of partners.
“InfraSec is a natural fit for fiskaly — both in terms of technology and mindset,” Marx says. The Swedish company contributes strong local expertise, a stable and trusted compliance solution, and a team aligned with fiskaly’s API-first philosophy.
Rather than replacing InfraSec’s technology, fiskaly is integrating it into its existing fiscalization and VAT compliance portfolio for the Swedish market. This allows fiskaly to offer compliant POS solutions in Sweden far more quickly than developing a system from scratch, while preserving continuity for InfraSec’s existing customers.
Strategically, the acquisition strengthens fiskaly’s position in the Nordic market and accelerates its ambition to become a leading VAT compliance partner across Europe.
Benefits for Swedish POS vendors and merchants
For Swedish POS vendors and merchants, the most immediate impact of the acquisition is continuity. InfraSec’s existing service continues without interruption, ensuring stability for current partners and customers.
At the same time, joining fiskaly provides access to a broader product roadmap, backed by a larger engineering organisation and experience across multiple European markets. Swedish POS vendors, in particular, gain a clearer path to cross-border expansion. Through fiskaly’s infrastructure, they can more easily enter markets such as Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy and France without sourcing separate fiscal compliance solutions.
Within Sweden, fiskaly plans to broaden access to InfraSec’s proven VAT compliance solution by integrating it more tightly into its overall product suite, making it available to a wider group of merchants and POS providers.
fiskaly’s roadmap: pan-European VAT compliance and e-invoicing
Looking ahead, fiskaly’s priorities extend beyond Sweden. Geographic expansion remains central, with plans to enter additional European markets over time. Each new country adds regulatory complexity, but also reinforces the value of a unified integration layer for international POS platforms.
A key product focus is the continued development of a pan-European API for fiscal compliance, enabling POS vendors to manage multiple regulatory regimes through a single technical interface.
Beyond fiscalization, fiskaly is preparing for a broader role in VAT compliance and e-invoicing. From 2026 onwards, the company plans to extend its portfolio with e-invoicing solutions, responding to new regulations around electronic invoicing systems and formats emerging across Europe. This positions fiskaly as a full-circle VAT compliance provider for businesses operating across both B2C and B2B channels.
Ultimately, fiskaly’s ambition is not to make compliance more visible, but less. As Marx puts it, the company aims to become “the invisible compliance layer behind Europe’s retail and POS systems” — supporting business growth while enabling transparent and efficient tax collection for governments.
With the acquisition of InfraSec Sweden AB, fiskaly adds another national building block to that vision, reinforcing its belief that Europe’s fragmented fiscalization landscape can be managed — and gradually simplified — through cloud-based infrastructure and deep local regulatory expertise.