What is Peppol?

Peppol is an open, global network for exchanging structured electronic business documents such as invoices. Companies connect once through a certified Access Point and can then send and receive documents with every other participant, in every Peppol country.

Peppol (originally Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line) started as an EU project and grew into the world’s largest interoperability network for e-invoicing and e-procurement. Today it is used across Europe and in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and the UAE.

How it works in one paragraph

You register with one certified Peppol Access Point (a Service Provider such as Verteco). Your company gets a Peppol ID based on an official identifier — a VAT number or company registry number. From that moment, anyone on the network can send you structured documents, and you can send to anyone, regardless of which Access Point they use. Think of it as e-mail for invoices, with delivery guarantees, encryption and a verified address book.

Why it matters now

A wave of national mandates (Belgium 2026, Germany 2025–2028, France 2026–2027, Poland 2026, Slovakia 2027 and more) makes structured e-invoicing legally required. Peppol is the only channel that covers many of these countries with a single connection — see the mandate tracker for the current state of every country.

Updated: August 29, 2026