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Peppol e-invoicing software for UK businesses

Your European customers increasingly prefer Peppol e-invoicing — and the UK follows in April 2029. Paylists sends and receives invoices and credit notes over Peppol from the UK today.

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Send & receive invoicesSend & receive credit notesEN 16931 · Peppol BIS Billing 3.0GBP & EUR invoicingLive cash flow forecast

What is Peppol?

Peppol (Pan-European Public Procurement OnLine) is a standardised, secure network for exchanging business documents — most commonly invoices and credit notes. Instead of emailing a PDF, you send a structured invoice in the EN 16931 / Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 format that the receiver's system reads automatically.

You connect once, through Paylists, and can then reach every other business and public body on the network — across borders, with no separate setup per customer.

Structured, not PDF

A Peppol invoice is machine-readable data, so it can be validated, routed and booked automatically — with far fewer errors than a PDF.

Secure & verified

Documents travel through certified access points over an encrypted, four-corner network. Every participant has a verified identity.

One connection, all of Europe

A single connection reaches every other participant, public sector and private, across all member countries.

How a Peppol invoice travels, in four steps →

New for the United Kingdom

Peppol, in both directions, from a UK business

Peppol sending and receiving is available for United Kingdom businesses through Paylists, subject to KYC verification. You keep sending email and PDF to customers who are not on the Peppol network.

Send invoices to any Peppol participant, in the UK or across Europe
Receive supplier invoices structured, with nothing to key in
Send and receive credit notes over the same connection
Inbound bills matched against the purchase order that raised them

VAT e-invoicing becomes mandatory in 2029.

The UK does not require most businesses to issue structured e-invoices yet, but the government has confirmed that VAT e-invoicing will be mandatory from 2029. Moving now means the change is a setting, not a project.

The nearer pressure is commercial, not legal. Customers and suppliers in European countries with e-invoicing mandates increasingly ask their trading partners to exchange invoices over Peppol.

Some UK public sector buyers, the NHS among them, already require their suppliers to invoice over Peppol.

See country-by-country Peppol availability →

UK e-invoicing landscape

Now

Peppol available for UK businesses

Send and receive invoices and credit notes over Peppol from Paylists.

In effect

EU buyers increasingly ask for Peppol

Belgium mandated domestic B2B e-invoicing in January 2026; Germany and France are phasing in. Cross-border invoices sit outside those mandates, but buyers who have automated their accounts payable increasingly want structured data.

In effect

NHS and public sector buyers

Parts of the UK public sector already require suppliers to send invoices via Peppol.

In effect

Late Payment Act & statutory interest

Right to claim interest and reasonable recovery costs on overdue B2B invoices.

Apr 2025

Payment Practices Reporting strengthened

Large companies must publish payment performance, increasing pressure to pay SMEs on time.

2029

UK VAT e-invoicing mandatory

Government-confirmed mandate for VAT invoices. Businesses already on Peppol have nothing to migrate.

One tool from contract to cash — now on Peppol network

Peppol is the delivery layer. The work around it — raising the invoice, matching the bill, seeing when the money lands — is what Paylists does.

Send over Peppol

Issue an invoice or credit note and it leaves as structured EN 16931 data, validated before it goes.

Receive supplier bills

Inbound invoices and credit notes arrive structured and land against the purchase order that raised them.

Contracts & recurring invoices

Set up a customer contract once and every invoice is raised and sent on schedule.

Live cash flow forecast

See when money will land, including forecast dates for customers who pay late.

Automated chasing

Configurable reminders go out before and after the due date, so you stop being the bad guy.

Accountant access & audit trail

View-only or act-on-behalf access, with every create, edit and send written to an immutable log.

Simple, transparent pricing in pounds

Billed in GBP for UK businesses. No setup fees. No per-invoice charges. Cancel anytime.

Starter
£5
per month, billed monthly
  • Quote to cash
  • Order to pay
  • Up to 35 invoices/month
  • Peppol delivery
  • Email + PDF delivery
  • 1 user
  • Quotations & contracts
  • Cash flow dashboard
  • Email support
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Custom
contact us for a quote
  • Unlimited everything
  • Unlimited users
  • Dedicated onboarding
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Priority SLA
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All plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card required. All prices in GBP, exclude VAT.

Peppol across seven markets

Paylists supports Peppol e-invoicing in seven markets. Each country page covers local rules, currency, Peppol status and pricing.

Paylists is using flowin access point to send and receive invoices and credit notes over Peppol network. Peppol network availability subject to flowin support. Users remain responsible for determining whether they are legally required to issue, receive, store or report invoices electronically in their country. See the full Peppol country availability page.

UK Peppol e-invoicing — questions, answered

Yes. Peppol sending and receiving is available for United Kingdom businesses, subject to Paylists onboarding and KYC verification. Invoices and credit notes travel in both directions, and inbound supplier bills can be matched against the purchase order that raised them.
Not yet for most businesses. The government has confirmed that VAT e-invoicing will become mandatory from 2029. Some UK public sector buyers — notably the NHS — already require their suppliers to send invoices via Peppol.
Usually not, as a legal matter. The mandates in Belgium, France and Germany apply to businesses established in those countries invoicing each other — a UK-to-EU invoice generally sits outside them until the EU’s 2030 digital reporting rules. You can still send a PDF by email.

In practice, many European buyers now prefer Peppol. The invoice is validated before it leaves, and it lands in their system without anyone re-keying it, which removes a common source of payment delay.
A Peppol ID is the address your business is reachable at on the network, written as scheme:value. UK businesses are commonly identified by GB VAT number under scheme 9932, for example 9932:GB123456789. Paylists registers you on the network as part of onboarding.
Paylists sends the same invoice by email with a PDF attached, and inbound supplier bills that arrive outside the network can still be recorded manually. Nothing is blocked by a trading partner who has not onboarded.
Accounting tools focus on the books. Paylists runs the operation between contract and cash — invoice generation from contracts, purchase orders, Peppol delivery in both directions, chasing and a true cash flow forecast — then exports clean structured data into whatever tool keeps your books.

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