XBRL Certified Software™ is software that has been inspected by XBRL International for conformance with the XBRL specifications. The certification programme exists to ensure interoperability between XBRL software products, ensuring that XBRL reports created in one piece of software can be consumed successfully in another and that those reports will be consumed the same way by other pieces of XBRL Certified Software™.
Certification is currently provided for two different types of software: Report Consumption Software and Report Creation Software.
Report Validating Software is software that is designed to validate and process XBRL or Inline XBRL reports. Certification checks that such software correctly validates reports according to the specification. Validating Processors are tested using the conformance suites that accompany the XBRL specifications.
Validating Processors are required to support all features of the specifications for which they are certified.
Report Creation Software is software that is used to prepare XBRL or iXBRL reports. In order to obtain certification, such software is required to validate any created reports using a certified Validating Processor.
Review & Consumption Software is software that is used to review, analyse, audit or otherwise consume XBRL or iXBRL reports. In order to obtain certification, such software is required to validate reports using a certified Validating Processor.
XBRL is a modular specification, and both types of software can gain certification in one or more modules. The modules currently available are:
- Core (XBRL 2.1)
- Inline XBRL v1.1
- Table Linkbase v1.0
- Extensible Enumerations v1.0
- Formula v1.0
- Units Registry v1.0
Reporting Estándar has obtained certification for Validating Processors Software, Report Creation Software and Review Software.
