Independent reviews · every verdict signed and dated · honest, and never for sale

Glossary · E-invoicing

Peppol

proper noun international e-invoicing standard & network

Peppol is an international framework for exchanging business documents, most visibly e-invoices, as structured data over a standardised network. Rather than emailing a PDF, your software hands the invoice to a certified access point, which delivers it to the recipient's access point on the network. Singapore's InvoiceNow is built on Peppol.

Why it matters

Why an SME should care

You rarely deal with Peppol directly. What matters is that your accounting software includes a Peppol access point, because that is what lets you send and receive e-invoices on networks like InvoiceNow without buying anything extra.

Your Peppol ID, the address other businesses use to send you e-invoices, is usually your UEN. When a review here says a product is InvoiceNow-ready, it means the vendor operates or connects to a Peppol access point on your behalf, so joining the network is a settings step rather than a new contract.

Go deeper

Where this shows up on the site

Guide

IRAS InvoiceNow: what your business must do, and by when

How the Peppol network is used in practice, plus which accounting software includes a built-in access point.

Read the guide