E-invoicing

Compare e-invoicing via Peppol

An e-invoice is not a PDF in an email, but an invoice as a structured file that your customer’s software reads in by itself. Peppol is the European network those invoices travel over. You are not connected to it yourself, but through a Peppol Access Point: an accredited service that delivers your invoices to the recipient’s Access Point and receives invoices for you. That way an invoice reaches your customer’s accounts without retyping, and your suppliers’ purchase invoices reach yours.

Mandatory in Belgium, on its way in the Netherlands

In Belgium, businesses have had to send each other e-invoices via Peppol since 1 January 2026. In the Netherlands this is not yet mandatory between businesses, but central government has been asking its suppliers for e-invoices for years, and under European rules e-invoices for supplies to businesses in other EU countries become mandatory from July 2030. That is why many accounting and invoicing programs already send and receive via Peppol.

Which software suits you?

If you already invoice with accounting or invoicing software, first check whether it supports Peppol: Moneybird, Jortt, WeFact, Teamleader and Odoo send and receive via Peppol, Informer sends and Zenvoices receives. Billit, Banqup and Scrada are invoicing and bookkeeping software with their own Peppol Access Point, made for small businesses in Belgium.

If you only want a connection to Peppol, without another package, there is Peppyrus with a free plan and e-invoice.be, where you pay per invoice and send invoices by email. Storecove and Dokapi are for software vendors who want to build e-invoicing into their own product, with one API for dozens of countries. Basware, Tradeshift and ecosio are made for large and international organisations, with purchase invoice processing and integrations with their ERP.

What should you look out for?

• Sending and receiving: not every package does both. Check whether you also receive purchase invoices via Peppol, and whether they then end up in your accounts.
• Pricing model: you pay a subscription with a number of documents per month, per invoice sent, or nothing up to a certain number. Work it out for the number of invoices you send and receive.
• Link with your accounts: a standalone Peppol service has to deliver its invoices to your accounting software. Check which packages are supported, or whether the link runs through UBL files or an API.
• Switching: your business is registered with one Access Point at a time to receive invoices. If you switch, have your registration transferred first, so that no invoices get lost.