Thursday, December 19, 2024

Lino can generate a PEPPOL-compliant invoice, i.e. an XML file that follows the EN 16931-1 standard (Lino and eInvoicing (PEPPOL)). But how is the site user supposed to do with this file? As far as I understood the system, they must “upload this file into the PEPPOL network”.

Compliance with the European standard on eInvoicing. Explaining the standard is a good introduction to PEPPOL. Interesting, but doesn’t answer my question.

EESPA, the European Association of E-Invoicing Service Providers, is an international not-for-profit association (AISBL/IVZW) organised under Belgian law. And they offer a partner programme. But haha, this is obviously not for Lino: the one-time joining fee is €1000, plus a yearly membership fee which was €2750 in for 2023.

A company in Denmark, named Bizbrains A/S, offer a partner programme that seems to be what I need. On their website they write:

Is your company an ERP house, an e-commerce provider or an EDI service provider (VAN)? Or do you sell products where you need to be able to send and/or receive PEPPOL invoices? If so, you have much to gain by partnering up with Peppol.com and establishing a close integration with our PEPPOL services – via our API, for example. As a Peppol.com partner, you can provide your users with the opportunity to send and receive e-invoices. We can also handle transformations between the PEPPOL format and the format you use in-house.

I filled their contact form, we’ll see where this leads.

The peppol-py package might be interesting. It is a “python implementation for sending peppol eDelivery AS4 documents”.