Getting your UBL file to your buyer

What you have after export

A UBL 2.1 file in the Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 format, checked against a documented subset of the EN 16931 and Peppol rules. It is a file on your computer; nothing has been sent.

Pick your route

• Your buyer has a portal

  If your buyer has a portal that accepts UBL uploads, upload the file there. Ask the buyer which format and identifiers they expect.

• You send over the Peppol network

  Use an Access Point provider you choose.

  Questions to ask a provider

  Ask any provider before you sign up.

  • Does it accept a UBL file made in other software (Peppol BIS Billing 3.0)?
  • Do you offer web upload or an API?
  • Which countries and receivers does it reach?
  • Does it check the file again, and what does it do on a rejection?
  • What does it cost per document or per month?
  • Does it receive invoices for me as well?

• Email, if your buyer agrees

  Send the file only if your buyer agrees to receive invoices that way. In some countries buyers are entitled to require the network; check your country's rules.

Before you send

Check these before the file leaves your computer. Each item shows where Fiscalane asks for it.

• Your buyer's Peppol participant id (ask them, or look it up in the public Peppol Directory)Scheme and value, in the buyer's e-invoice address fields.Create an invoice: Buyer, E-invoice address (Peppol participant id)Signed in: Clients, E-invoice address (Peppol participant id)Fiscalane shows these fields when the buyer's country is an EU member state, or when an address is already filled in.
• The buyer reference or purchase order numberYour buyer uses it to route the invoice.Create an invoice: Invoice details, Buyer reference or Order reference
• Your own endpointYour scheme and value, in your own e-invoice address fields.Create an invoice: Seller, E-invoice address (Peppol participant id)Signed in: Settings, Business detailsFiscalane shows these fields when your country is an EU member state, or when an address is already filled in.
• A credit note points to the invoice it correctsThe invoice number it corrects.Create an invoice: Invoice details, This is a credit note, then Preceding invoice numberSigned in: open the issued invoice, then Create credit note
• You keep a copy of the file and the PDFStore both where you keep your records.Download PDF sits next to Export e-invoice (UBL) in the editor.

If the receiver rejects the file

Read the rule id in the rejection and compare it with the Compliance tab in Fiscalane.

Fiscalane is not a certification and not a Peppol Access Point. It checks a documented subset of the rules; a receiver's own validator may check more.