Because the widespread adoption of eInvoicing relies on the direct exchange of information between multiple, different software systems, data must be shared in a standardised format.

Therefore, Australia and New Zealand have adopted the Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line (Peppol) interoperability framework. Peppol is a proven, international standard that’s used in over 34 countries around the world to facilitate eInvoicing.

Peppol is run by OpenPEPPOL, a non-profit association that develops, maintains, and governs the Peppol specifications to encourage the growth of open and accessible digital trade.

In 2018, the Australian and New Zealand governments signed the Trans-Tasman Electronic Invoicing Arrangement. Both countries wanted to create a shared approach to eInvoicing to make international trade easier and more secure.

Both countries see eInvoicing as an important piece of their digital economy strategies.

Access Points are necessary to provide the means for two different business systems to speak to each other. eInvoicing is delivered via a four-corner model. Corners 1 and 4 do not exchange invoices directly - they depend on an exchange between Corners 2 and 3 (Access Points).

To embrace TechnologyOne’s solution for eInvoicing, businesses will need to directly engage an accredited provider.

Access Points are provided by accredited service providers. Service providers also act as Service Metadata Publishers within the Peppol Framework.

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While there are clear benefits for the business community, eInvoicing is not mandatory in Australia or New Zealand for businesses at this time. However, there are requirements for Government agencies in Australia & New Zealand as outlined above. For all the latest updates and requirements, refer to the ATO and MBIE directly.

It’s wise for businesses to remain ready to meet evolving compliance obligations.

TechnologyOne is an active member of OpenPeppol. This allows us to contribute to the OpenPeppol community and engage in discussions on the future of eInvoicing and wider eProcurement standardisation.  The benefit for our customers is that we are actively advocating for them based on business requirements and in turn to ensure our solution is future proofing them in relation to any decisions on standardisation.

We’re engaging with Access Point service providers to ensure our customers can choose their preferred provider with interoperability.

Network-level responses are sent back to the Access Point on receipt of an eInvoice. In the case that an eInvoice is not received then a failure response will be sent back to the Service Provider so that the eInvoice can be re-sent. Message Level Responses are handled by your Service Provider.

Our eInvoicing solution is available from the 2021A Release (or later as subsequent releases become available).

Yes. Our Cia platform provides a range of new capabilities that provide additional business benefits and are complimentary to the eInvoicing business process, including our Intelligent Invoice Processing and analytics on time to pay insights. To obtain guidance on upgrading to CiA, speak to your account manager today.

Self-billing is an optional extension within the Trans-Tasman eInvoicing framework. We will not be supporting self-billing within the framework within the initial eInvoicing release. This is however an additional service offering we will provide in conjunction with the RCTI Service Contracts work scheduled for future release.

Yes, we have numerous Government agencies in both Australia and New Zealand using our solution, as well as other customers. See the media release.