The Limburg association BARGE is launching Let’s Peppol, a free Peppol mailbox for self-employed individuals and those with secondary occupations. The platform aims to enable e-invoicing via Peppol without the need for accounting software or usage limits.
Let’s Peppol is available as a free and unlimited Peppol mailbox for small businesses. The initiative comes from BARGE, a non-profit organization from Limburg. Users can send and receive invoices on the Peppol network via the platform. They create their own invoices and can manually mark invoices as paid.
Peppol is increasingly becoming the standard for electronic invoicing. As a result, smaller businesses are looking for ways to work with it without extra software costs or extensive automation.
Mailbox
Let’s Peppol is a mailbox with an interface and not an accounting or ERP solution. The service focuses on basic functionality: incoming and outgoing Peppol invoices and overview. According to the initiators, the platform is aimed at entrepreneurs who want to continue managing the workflow themselves.
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For secure identification, the service uses eID during registration. After that, users can log in and work without a card reader, the project states. A link with accounting packages is planned and is expected “in the coming month.”
Open source
The software is completely open source. According to BARGE, this should make the operation verifiable and enable contributions from third parties. The organization also says that it does not use user data for marketing and that users remain the owners of their data.
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In an initial test phase with closed onboarding, the project reports more than 50 active users in one week. The rollout starts in Belgium. BARGE indicates that the concept should also be usable in other European countries later. Bart Stukken, director at Business Application Research Group Europe, says that the goal is to enable small businesses to meet e-invoicing obligations “without extra stress or high costs.”