
Cabys – Catalog of Goods and Services
Mandatory update at the national level is effective as of December 1, 2020
Author: Mauro Esquivel
Continuing with our article from the previous edition in Ballena Tales (previous article), we are going to show you how to find the correct code for the activity or activities that you or your company develop:
First of all, we will remind you, What is Cabys?
It is an official list of codes for mandatory use in electronic receipts to standardize the details of the goods and services traded.
The goods and services in this catalog are identified with a unique code of up to 13 digits, which allows their individualization, starting from 10 general categories until they expand to more than 20,000 products.
To find your codes, you must enter the following link.

Click on the “Web Search” icon that appears there and follow the following instructions:
- As shown in the following image, place it in the search engine and enter the good or service information. (We will use hosting as an example).
- We check the category.
- We verify the corresponding Good or Services.
- We choose from the list of goods or services that correspond.
- We verify in the description that it corresponds to the one chosen in the previous option.
- The code is validated and assigned in our information system.
- We verify the VAT associated with the good or service.

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