Peppol jargon¶

Here are some Peppol-related terms and abbreviations and what they mean.

PEPPOL¶

(Pan-European Public Procurement Online) An international standard for exchanging invoices and other business documents in machine-readable formats.

Through Peppol, participant organisations can deliver procurement documents to each other including electronic invoices in machine readable formats, avoiding the labour of data entry. – Wikipedia

Peppol document¶

A business document that can be exchanged via the Peppol network. Right now this means an invoice or credit note, either sales or purchase.

Peppol network¶

The network of organizations who use the PEPPOL standard for doing their business communication.

Peppol access point¶

An organization that provides to their customers a connection to the Peppol network.

Peppol endpoint¶

A legal person who receives and sends invoices using the Peppol network.

An endpoint uses one and only one access point in order to register to the network.

Peppol end user¶

An organization that receives and sends their invoices and credit notes via a software that uses the Ibanity API to access the Peppol network.

You become an Peppol end user when an Peppol hosting provider register you.

Peppol hosting provider¶

An organization who can register their customers as Peppol endpoints.

If you want to act as a Peppol hosting provider with Lino, you need a contract with Ibanity as your Peppol access point provider. You can then host one or multiple Lino sites that share the same credentials for accessing the Ibanity API.

Ibanity¶

A Peppol access point provider for software developers who access the Peppol network via an API.

See https://ibanity.com/company

Ibanity is a solution of Isabel Group in Brussels.

Ibanity supplier¶

Jargon synonym for Peppol end user used by the Ibanity API for historical reasons.

Ibanity API¶

The public Application Programmers Interface provided by Ibanity to their customers.

Also known under its older name Flowin e-invoicing Services.

Ibanity credentials¶

A set of files with security keys to identify an Peppol hosting provider when accessing the Ibanity API.

Ibanity developer portal¶

The web interface where an Peppol hosting provider gets their credentials.

See https://documentation.ibanity.com/go-live

UBL¶

Universal Business Language

UBL Invoice Syntax reference

BIS¶

Business Interoperability Specifications

See https://docs.peppol.eu/poacc/billing/3.0/bis/

SML¶

Service Metadata Locator

A service needed for looking up a business partner using EAS.

https://docs.peppol.eu/edelivery/sml/PEPPOL-EDN-Service-Metadata-Locator-1.2.0-2021-05-13.pdf

The commondata.peppolcodes module has a dict COUNTRY2SCHEME.

SMP¶

Service Metadata Publisher

A service needed for looking up a business partner using EAS.

AS4¶

The only transport profile still in use.

“The AS4 technical specification [AS4] defines a secure and reliable messaging protocol. It can be used for message exchange in Business-to-Business (B2B), Administration-to-Administration (A2A), Administration-to-Business (A2B) and Business-to-Administration (B2A) contexts. AS4 messages can carry any number of payloads. Payloads may be structured or unstructured documents or data.” (ec.europa.eu)

Hermes¶

A platform provided by the Belgian government where SMEs can sign in and communicate with the Peppol network. They can manually enter outbound documents (sales invoices and credit notes) to be sent to their customers, and they can view their inbound documents.