What do you mean? All Belgian users unite?
V2 of InvoicePlane is on its way. We can connect to any API by then.
If there is a Peppol provider that offers Apu access and if they’re helpful we’ll just connect to them.
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Peppol is not accessible to the public, only through Access Points. None of them will be willing to freely open their access to Peppol to IP-users. Except if IP would become an integrator for that Access Point. But that will not be free either. I had signed up as an integretor few weeks ago. They charged 65 EUR/year for being an integrator and 10 EUR (one time off) for enabling a registered VAT number.
As Peppol is a Belgian company and the Belgian government forces Belgian entrepeneurs to use it, it’s not something you can include in IP. I noticed the Italian users created their own IP in 2019 for the same reasons. France will have their own standards as from 2026.
The only solution I see is to turn IP into a hosted app, become a Peppol Access Point (and pay 2000 EUR/year) and try to make some money to cover the costs. Apart from Belgium there are a dozen of other countries that use Peppol and it’s flavor of the UBL Invoice standard. This can work, really!
IP could then grow into a SAAS SME-solution provider, just like Odoo has. My expectation is that somewhere in 2025, at least a dozen of new competitors will join this market. IP can be one of them.
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