The Netherlands helped found the Peppol network, and central government has required e-invoices from its suppliers since 2017. Paylists sends and receives them, and runs the quotes, orders and projects around them.
Dutch public buyers expect Peppol, and more private customers ask for it every year.
Central government has required e-invoices from its suppliers since 2017.
Paylists sends and receives Peppol e-invoices from day one.
A PDF is not an e-invoice. Customers' systems can reject invoices that don't meet the standard.
Every invoice is validated against EN 16931 before it leaves.
Access points, identifiers and formats are a technical project for most small businesses.
Paylists is your Peppol connection. Sign up, verify your business and send.
Suppliers to Dutch central government have had to invoice electronically since 1 January 2017. Many municipalities, provinces and public bodies follow, using the national NLCIUS specification on top of Peppol BIS Billing 3.0.
For B2B, Peppol is not mandatory yet but widely used. Large Dutch buyers increasingly require structured e-invoices, and the EU's ViDA framework will bring further harmonisation.
Central government's electronic gateway.
All suppliers must invoice electronically.
The Dutch core invoice usage specification.
E-invoicing expected to extend to B2B.
E-invoicing is one step. Paylists also runs the quote before it and the payment after it, with Lister to do the typing.
Invoices and credit notes in both directions, validated before they go.
Quotes, sales orders, purchase orders and projects from one sentence.
Inbound bills land against the purchase order that raised them.
Forecasts from your own documents. No bank connection needed.
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Paylists issues EN 16931 / Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 invoices and validates each one before sending, subject to onboarding, verification and correct invoice data. It does not replace advice from your accountant.
Paylists sends the same invoice by email with a PDF.
The Paylists app works in English, French and German, set per user. For Netherlands: English.
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