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Peppol matching of debtors and creditors

Thijs Jan Hoving Updated by Thijs Jan Hoving

On the Peppol network, companies can be registered with various e-identifiers. These e-identifiers vary per country. Most countries have at least two e-identifiers that can be used.

In the Netherlands this can be VAT number, CoC (KvK) number or OIN number (OIN number is for gouvernment and gouvernment related organisations).

In Belgium EN number or VAT number do exist.

It is wise to register all the known e-identifiers of your own company and the debtor or creditors in Newbase.

The reason is that it is not known with which e-identifier an external organisation has been registered on the Peppol network. This can be with only one e-identifier, and should you use the other e-identifier, then the debtor or creditor will not be found.

For creditors a correct registration of e-identifiers is important, so that when a purchase invoice is coming in via the Peppol network the creditor can be matched. However, the invoice will always be created, regardless whether the creditor can be matched automatically or not. Adding the creditor on the purchase invoice can be done by hand afterwards.

For debtor a correct registration of e-identifiers is important to make sure the invoice will arrive at the correct address.

1. Creditors can not find you at the Peppol netwerk

When creditors cannot find you at the Peppol network, check wich e-identifiers are registered in the company.

You will need to know which company the creditor tries to address and with which e-identifier. Then check the e-identifiers for the company, correct or add the e-identifiers and push to the Peppol network.

Click here to check and correct company e-identifiers

2. Debtors cannot be found in the Peppol netwerk

When you cannot find a debtor on the Peppol netwerk (while sending a message 'no sending action taken' could indicate that) you can correct or add e-identifiers at the organisation.

You should consider asking the debtor or creditor with which e-identifier they are registered on the Peppol network, and then check and change the e-identifiers for the organisation.

Click here for checking and maintaining organisations and debtor e-identifiers.

Should a debtor not be registered on the Peppol netwerk, but you want to send a digital invoice via the Peppol network anyway you can add a fallback emailaddress.

The e-identifiers will always be used when at least one of the e-identifiers can be found on the Peppol network, but should identifying the organisation by all of the e-identifiers fail, the fallback emailaddress will be used to deliver the digital invoice.

3. A purchase invoice has been received but the creditor is not linked

Newbase stores the source documents (.xml and .pdf) in the purchase invoice folder of your cloud drive. It is importants to make sure that the Storecove user set in the company settings has access to the purchase invoice path on that cloud drive, otherwise the files will not be saved.

If a creditor is not linked to a purchase invoice that is because the creditor can not be found by the e-identifier.

You can open the pdf or the xml to check who the supplier is.

Then check if the creditor exists at all in Newbase. If not create the creditor (you might have to create the organisation and/or contacts too) and add e-identifiers. If you have to create a creditor you should keep in mind that purchase invoice lines of cost creditors are automatically processed when received, but lines of invoices of creditors from which you get goods or services, and should be linked to purchase order or goods reception lines will not be processed automatically.

Next check the e-identifiers of the creditor. Make sure there are no spaces, tabs or other invisible characters in the text (so typing might be a better idea then copying from a website which may have various markup in it).

Now you can link the creditor to the invoice yourself, but a next incoming purchase invoice of that creditor should be processed just fine.

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