Tools
What comes after finding the company
This directory answers one question: who an Ecuadorian company is. There is almost always something behind it: issuing it an invoice, checking the one it sent you, filing it, signing it a contract, feeding its data into your system. These are the tools the same team maintains for that, with each one's access terms stated plainly. The services operate in Spanish.
01 · ride.ec
View any e-invoice from its access key
Paste the 49-digit access key, or upload the XML file, and you get the invoice as a PDF (the RIDE), the authorized XML, its data ready for another system and a receipt-printer version. No SRI portal password needed, and you do not have to be the recipient of the document.
Open ride.ec → Free, no sign-up.
02 · recibo.ec
Receive purchase invoices and have them file themselves
An @recibo.ec address where electronic receipts arrive: they file themselves and produce summaries by supplier, product and category, with export to Excel. Missing receipts are recovered from the SRI.
Open recibo.ec → Up to 200 receipts a month, free.
03 · E-invoicing API
Issue e-invoices from your own system
Your system sends each document and gets back its status, the authorized XML and the RIDE: the API validates it, signs it with your certificate and transmits it to the SRI. It covers all six receipt types and notifies your system when there is news.
See the API → Free to try; production use is billed by documents issued.
04 · Electronic signature
Sign documents with your certificate, nothing to install
PDF signing from the browser with .p12 or .pfx certificates issued in Ecuador. The seal can be visible, QR-code only, with your drawn signature or with no mark on the page. Includes validation of signatures on documents you receive.
See electronic signature → Requires your own certificate, issued by an accredited authority.
05 · RUC lookup API
This data, inside your application
Your system queries a RUC and receives, in a format any program understands, the legal name, the taxpayer status with the SRI, the tax regime, the economic activity and the establishments. Built to validate customers and suppliers as you register them.
See the RUC API → Lookup by number, public for testing.
And also
- Signature validation Check who signed a PDF, with which certificate, and whether the document changed afterwards.
- CipherID Online identity verification: confirms there is a real person in front of the camera and validates their document.
- National ID API Returns the name and basic data associated with an Ecuadorian national ID.
- Driver’s license API Points, license type and blocks associated with a national ID.
- CipherByte The rest of the catalog: a single account with two-step verification, storage, corporate email and custom development.
Why this page exists
Because it should be said in one place and without ambiguity: these tools are by the same team that maintains this directory, and when they appear inside a guide, it is said there too. No mentions are paid for and no third-party links are placed. The directory and its data are free and will remain so. And the guides are written under the same rule as always: with the legal citation up front, and without asserting what we could not verify against its source.
If something described here has changed (a limit, a plan, an access condition), let us know and we will correct it.