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Friday, May 14, 2021

Ionite has joined the AS4EDI2020 consortium

Ionite is proud to announce its partnership in the AS4EDI2020 project. The goal of AS4EDI2020 is to upgrade eDelivery solutions (Access Points), thereby making eDelivery more available to trading entities in both the public and the private sector across Europe. With an increased use of such infrastructures, the exchange of business documents between trading entities becomes more reliable, more efficient, and more secure. The focus of the project is to add and improve support for the CEF AS4 Profile.

Analysis of the differences between NLCIUS/SI-UBL 2.0 and PEPPOL BIS 3 invoices

The two most widely used document formats for e-invoicing in the Netherlands are NLCIUS/SI-UBL 2.0, which implements the business rules of the NLCIUS, and Peppol BIS 3.0 Invoice, which implements business rules specified by PEPPOL. The NLCIUS was defined by the STPE, and is mainly used for the exchange of invoices between parties in the Netherlands. PEPPOL BIS 3 is meant for use across Europe, and supporting it is mandatory for all participants on the Peppol network that process e-invoices.

A PEPPOL (technical) primer

This is an very short technical overview of PEPPOL, and how parties to connect to the PEPPOL network and exchange business documents. To fully discuss all the ins and outs of everything PEPPOL goes beyond the scope of this article, but it should give you a very general view of the main components that are involved.

From a very high viewpoint, PEPPOL defines two core concepts: how to format documents so that they can be processed automatically, and how to exchange those documents between senders and receivers.