GoRoute is an OpenPeppol-certified Peppol Access Point and SMP provider, Peppol ID POP000991. One connection sends and receives compliant e-invoices across 40+ countries, from Europe to Asia-Pacific.
Access Point Provider (POP000991)
A certified Peppol Access Point provider is a company OpenPeppol has approved to send and receive documents on the network on your behalf. GoRoute holds that certification under Peppol ID POP000991, and operates both an Access Point and an SMP, so you integrate once and reach every participant.
A Peppol access point provider takes an invoice out of your finance system and gets it into your customer's, using the network's own rules, and it does five separate jobs to manage that. You cannot connect to Peppol directly: documents only enter the network through a provider whose certificate the network recognises. Buying an access point is buying those five jobs as a service.
Peppol carries structured XML, not PDFs. Your provider maps what your ERP or accounting system produces — its own XML, a JSON payload, a CSV export — into UBL 2.1 against the profile the destination country expects. Where a country uses its own profile, such as PINT rather than BIS Billing 3.0, the provider selects it; that choice is not yours to make per invoice.
A structurally valid invoice can still be rejected for a business rule — a missing tax category, a total that does not reconcile, a customer reference the buyer requires. Validation run before transmission turns that into an error on your screen. Validation left to the receiver turns it into a rejected invoice and a payment delay, which is the same defect discovered a week later.
You address a Peppol document to an identifier, not to a server. The provider looks that identifier up through the network's directory layer, learns which access point serves that business and which document types it has said it will accept, and routes accordingly. If the buyer is not registered, you find out before you send rather than after.
Delivery runs access point to access point over AS4, encrypted in transit and signed with a certificate issued under the Peppol public-key infrastructure. The receiving access point returns an acknowledgement. That acknowledgement is the evidence you hold that the document arrived, and it is the reason "I emailed it" and "I sent it over Peppol" are not comparable statements.
Most mandates oblige you to receive structured invoices as well as send them, and the receiving side is where more businesses get stuck: an arriving UBL document has to become a payable in your ledger with something a human can read beside it. What that involves is set out on e-invoice receiving and processing.
If what you are buying is the connection itself rather than a finance application — a Peppol access point API your own developers call from your product — that is the page to read next. GoRoute exposes all five jobs above through one REST API, documented at docs.goroute.ai.
These three words are used interchangeably in vendor marketing and they do not mean the same thing. The distinction matters when you compare quotes, because two providers can both be telling the truth and be selling you different amounts of the job.
| Term | What it actually is | What it does not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| Access point | The gateway that transmits and receives documents on the network. A specific, certified technical role. | Which countries' profiles it supports, or whether it validates before sending. |
| Service provider | The commercial party you contract with. It may operate its own access point, or resell somebody else's. | Whether the certified infrastructure is theirs at all. Ask directly. |
| SMP | The directory record saying which access point serves a business and which documents it accepts. A separate certified role. | Anything about transmission — an SMP moves no invoices. |
The practical consequence is registration. Your business needs a directory record before anyone can send to you, and if your provider does not operate an SMP itself, that record sits with a third party — so onboarding, changes and your eventual exit all run through somebody who is not on your contract. GoRoute operates both roles under the same Peppol ID, which is why registration and transmission are one conversation here rather than two.
The full architecture — four corners, the locator, the directory and the AS4 hop between them — is explained in what is a Peppol Access Point.
The Pan-European Public Procurement Online network connecting businesses and governments across the globe.
Peppol (Pan-European Public Procurement Online) is the world's leading e-invoicing network, enabling secure exchange of electronic business documents between organizations worldwide. Originally developed for European public sector procurement, Peppol has grown into the de facto global standard for B2B and B2G e-invoicing.
The network uses a four-corner model where certified Access Points (like GoRoute.ai) handle the secure transmission of documents. Combined with the Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) for participant discovery, Peppol enables seamless any-to-any document exchange without point-to-point integrations. Explore our whitepapers for an in-depth look at Peppol architecture.
Send invoices to Europe, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and more
Compliant with European e-invoicing directives 2014/55/EU
No individual integrations — reach any Peppol participant instantly
EN16931 Schematron validation ensures invoice acceptance
Start sending Peppol invoices globally in three simple steps
Sign up with GoRoute.ai and we'll register your Peppol Participant ID. You'll receive a unique identifier using your VAT number, GLN, or other scheme to receive invoices globally. That registration is also what makes you reachable — see e-invoice receiving and processing for what happens when a supplier sends to you.
Upload via dashboard, API, or ERP integration. We validate against EN16931/Peppol BIS, sign with AS4 encryption, and route to the recipient's access point automatically.
Receive AS4 delivery receipts confirming transmission. Electronic invoices process faster than paper, reducing DSO and improving global cash flow. What each state means, and what proof you are left holding, is set out on e-invoice sending and tracking software.
You check the network's own records rather than the provider's website. Certified access points and SMPs are published by OpenPeppol, each carrying an identifier, and a provider who cannot give you theirs when asked has answered the question. Three checks settle it in about ten minutes:
POP000991 is GoRoute's identifier as an OpenPeppol-certified access point and SMP provider. It means the network recognises our certificate: documents we sign enter Peppol and are accepted by other access points as coming from a party bound by the network's agreements. Every claim on this page rests on that certification and on nothing wider.
Certification is a statement about the transport layer. It says the provider can carry documents on the network correctly and securely. It says nothing at all about the things you will actually be judged on:
So treat certification as the gate, not the decision: it removes the providers who cannot legitimately carry your invoices, and leaves the comparison entirely open. How to choose a Peppol Access Point works through that comparison in full.
Six questions separate providers who have done this in your market from providers who will learn on your invoices. Ask them in one email and compare the answers side by side; the quality of the reply tells you as much as its content.
"Today, in production" is doing the work in that sentence. A roadmap answer to a live obligation is a no.
You are looking for layered validation — the document structure, the European semantic rules, the country's own rules — run before sending and blocking on error.
If either is somebody else's, ask who, and read that party's terms too. You are depending on them whether or not they are named in your contract.
The entire commercial argument for Peppol is that you integrate once. A provider charging you a project per country has handed the complexity back.
It should be the provider's, applied centrally. If a rule change becomes a release in your own backlog, you have bought a library rather than a service.
Your registration record and your document history both need to move. Ask how, ask what it costs, and ask before you sign rather than in the month you are trying to go.
Answering these about ourselves: GoRoute is a certified access point and SMP under POP000991, validates against structure, the European semantic rules and each country's own rules before transmission, and exposes every market through a single REST API. Book a demo and ask the six questions directly, or watch the product working first in the recorded ERP walkthroughs.
Peppol e-invoicing is mandatory or widely adopted in these regions
Built on proven standards for secure, reliable document exchange
Business Interoperability Specification defining invoice, credit note, and order document profiles based on UBL 2.1.
European e-invoicing standard with Schematron validation ensuring invoices meet all syntactic and semantic requirements.
OASIS ebMS 3.0 AS4 messaging protocol with TLS encryption, digital signatures, and guaranteed delivery receipts.
Service Metadata Publisher for automatic participant discovery. Find any registered business by their Peppol ID.
Supports VAT numbers, GLN, DUNS, national schemes (0088, 0184, 9930, etc.) for flexible business identification.
Invoice, Credit Note, Order, Order Response, Catalogue, MLR (Message Level Response), and more.
For most British businesses, not yet as a matter of UK law — and for a sizeable minority, already, because of who they sell to. The United Kingdom has not legislated a general e-invoicing mandate. The government consulted on e-invoicing in 2025, and a phased obligation is widely anticipated toward the end of the decade, with 2029 the year most commonly discussed. Treat that year as expected rather than decided, and follow HMRC for the definitive timeline.
Three situations make it a present question rather than a future one:
The preparation worth doing now is unglamorous and does not depend on the final rules: get the invoice data clean and complete, confirm your accounting or ERP system can produce and receive structured documents, and connect through a certified access point so that a mandate becomes a switch rather than a project. Businesses that waited for the last three European mandates did the same work under a deadline.
The detail — what the consultation asked, what the NHS actually requires and what standard a UK framework would most plausibly use — is in UK e-invoicing 2029: the mandate, the consultation and Peppol. For the countries where the obligation is already live, start with Belgium or the global e-invoicing overview.
Start sending compliant e-invoices to 40+ countries. Get your Peppol Participant ID and begin invoicing within 24 hours.
Everything you need to know about the Peppol network and global e-invoicing
A Peppol Access Point is a certified gateway that connects your business to the Peppol network. Think of it like an email provider for invoices — you can't send Peppol documents directly, you need an Access Point (like GoRoute.ai) to handle the secure transmission, digital signing, and routing. We're certified by OpenPeppol (POP000991) to send and receive documents on your behalf.
A Peppol Participant ID is your unique address on the network, like an email address for documents. It's formatted as a scheme code plus identifier — for example, "0088:5798000000001" (GLN) or "9930:DE123456789" (German VAT). When you sign up with GoRoute.ai, we register your Participant ID using your VAT number, company registration number, or GLN in the Peppol SMP directory.
EN16931 is the European semantic standard for e-invoices, defining what information must be included and how it's structured. Peppol BIS 3.0 is the technical format implementing EN16931 using UBL 2.1 XML. GoRoute.ai validates every invoice against both standards using Schematron rules before transmission, ensuring your invoices are accepted by any recipient on the network.
Many EU countries mandate Peppol for B2G (business-to-government) invoicing, including Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, and Italy. B2B mandates are expanding rapidly — Germany requires e-invoicing from 2025, France from 2026, Poland (KSeF) from 2026, and Norway from 2027. Outside Europe, Singapore's InvoiceNow (Peppol-based) is mandatory for government suppliers. Our compliance team tracks all mandate changes.
GoRoute.ai includes a built-in Peppol Directory lookup. Enter a company's VAT number, GLN, or other identifier and we query the SMP/SML to check if they're registered to receive invoices. You can also use the official Peppol Directory at directory.peppol.eu. If they're not registered, we can help onboard them or send via alternative channels.
Peppol is the network/protocol for transmission. XRechnung (Germany), Factur-X (France), and FatturaPA (Italy) are national CIUS (Core Invoice Usage Specifications) — country-specific invoice formats. GoRoute.ai handles all CIUS variants automatically. When you send to a German authority, we apply XRechnung rules; for France, Factur-X; for Italy, FatturaPA. All transmitted via Peppol.
AS4 (Applicability Statement 4) is the messaging protocol used by Peppol for secure document exchange. Every message is encrypted with TLS 1.2+, digitally signed with X.509 certificates (we use OpenPeppol PKI G3), and includes delivery receipts. AS4 guarantees exactly-once delivery and provides non-repudiation — both sender and receiver have cryptographic proof of transmission.
Absolutely! Peppol has expanded far beyond Europe. You can send invoices to Singapore (InvoiceNow), Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, South Africa, Canada, and the USA (via DBNAlliance interoperability). GoRoute.ai handles the regional requirements automatically — different document types, validation rules, and participant schemes for each country.
Traditional paper/PDF invoicing costs €5-15 per invoice when you factor in printing, postage, manual data entry, and error correction. Peppol e-invoicing through GoRoute.ai costs €0.05-0.50 per invoice depending on volume — up to 95% savings. Plus, electronic invoices are processed 80% faster, reducing DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) and improving cash flow.
GoRoute.ai offers multiple integration options: REST API for developers, pre-built connectors for SAP S/4HANA, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Sage, QuickBooks, Xero, and Odoo. We accept invoices in any format — XML, JSON, CSV, PDF with OCR — and convert to Peppol BIS automatically. Most ERP integrations are live within 1-2 weeks.
GoRoute.ai validates every invoice against EN16931 and Peppol BIS Schematron rules BEFORE transmission, catching 95% of potential rejections. If the receiver's Access Point returns an error (MLR - Message Level Response), we surface it in your dashboard with clear explanation and remediation steps. Our support team helps resolve complex validation issues.
Peppol is one of the most secure document exchange networks available. All transmissions use TLS 1.3 encryption, every message is digitally signed with PKI certificates, and the four-corner model ensures no single party has access to all document content. GoRoute.ai is GDPR compliant and uses AWS infrastructure with a 99.99% uptime SLA.
Peppol is the network. What travels over it is a document in a defined format, judged against a defined profile. These explain the difference.
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