As soon as you activate an organisation on the eConnect platform, you are automatically registered on the Peppol network. This means you can immediately send invoices to any Peppol participant worldwide. Receiving is a separate step that you enable yourself.

When you add and activate an organisation on the eConnect platform, three things happen automatically:

1. Your organisation is registered in the eConnect SMP (Service Metadata Publisher), the technical register that tells other Peppol participants how to reach you.
2. At least one identifier is created. For Dutch organisations, this is the Chamber of Commerce number (schemeID 0106).
3. Your organisation is immediately discoverable on the Peppol network, so other parties can send documents to you.

You do not need to do anything for this. The registration runs entirely automatically in the background.

On your first login, a pop-up appears asking whether you want to receive e-invoices via Peppol for each organisation. By default, receiving is turned off because it is a paid service that requires credit or at least a Basic plan.

In the pop-up you can choose per organisation:

• Enable: receiving is activated for that organisation.
• Disable pop-up: the prompt will no longer appear on subsequent logins.

Note: if you dismiss the pop-up without making a choice, it will reappear on your next login. If you want to close the pop-up permanently, click "Disable pop-up".

The setting is stored in your organisation details. There you can also enable or disable receiving at any time.

Each identifier linked to your organisation has two toggles:

• Sending: determines whether you can send invoices via this identifier
• Receiving: determines whether you can receive invoices via this identifier

You can find these settings via Organisations > select organisation > Details. For each identifier you will see a toggle to enable or disable sending and receiving separately.

In addition to enabling or disabling receiving per identifier, you can also specify per document type what you want to receive. This includes invoices, credit notes, or orders. This way you maintain precise control over which documents arrive via Peppol.

Your Peppol registration determines how other organisations find you on the network. Without registration, suppliers and customers cannot send e-invoices to you via Peppol and will fall back to email or postal mail.

A proper registration has several benefits:

Discoverability. The more identifiers you register (Chamber of Commerce number, VAT number, OIN), the greater the chance that senders will find you. Some senders search by Chamber of Commerce number, others by VAT number.

Automatic processing. Invoices received via Peppol can be forwarded directly to your accounting software. This saves manual work and reduces the chance of errors.

Compliance. An increasing number of government agencies and large organisations require their suppliers to be registered on Peppol. In Belgium, B2B e-invoicing via Peppol has been mandatory since 1 January 2026.

You can register more than one identifier for the same organisation. This increases your reach on the network. Common combinations:

• Chamber of Commerce number (0106) as the primary identifier for Dutch organisations
• VAT number (9944) as an additional identifier, so international parties can find you too
• OIN number (0190) if you invoice to or on behalf of the Dutch government

For each identifier you can separately configure whether you want to send and/or receive on it. For example, you might receive on your Chamber of Commerce number but not on your VAT number.

Want to add a VAT number or OIN? You can do this in your organisation settings on platform.econnect.eu.

• What is my Peppol ID?
• Add and register your VAT number
• Unregister from the Peppol network
• What is Peppol and how does the network work?