A guided tour of the eConnect Control interface: navigation, screens and features at a glance.
Once you've logged in to control.econnect.eu, you arrive at the Control dashboard. The interface is intentionally kept simple: you can quickly find what you're looking for without navigating through layers of menus. This article gives you a tour of the main sections.
In short Control is built around a set of main sections accessible through the sidebar on the left: Dashboard, Analytics (document overview), Peppol, Purple Pages and Document Validation. In the top-right corner you find your account settings, language preference and theme toggle.
Navigation in Control consists of a sidebar on the left and a toolbar in the top-right corner.
The sidebar gives you direct access to the main sections of Control:
At the bottom of the sidebar you'll find three icons: a question mark linking to the PSB documentation, the GitHub logo of the eConnect development project, and the LinkedIn logo of eConnect.
In the top-right corner of the screen you find four options side by side:
The dashboard is your landing page after logging in. You see a chart of your incoming and outgoing document flows over the past 90 days, alongside key figures such as the number of senders, receivers and total document volume. Below the chart you find pie charts showing the distribution by document family and by status. The dashboard gives you an instant picture of your document processing without having to search.
Most of your work in Control takes place in Analytics. Here you find all your incoming and outgoing documents, organized into four tabs: Invoices, Orders, Timecards and Transactions.
The Invoices tab shows the creation date, issue date, channel (peppol or api), direction (in or out), document ID, status and sender for each document. You can search by company name or identifier, filter by date range and sort results by any column. In the top-right you find the export buttons for CSV and XLSX.
The Transactions tab offers an aggregated view: instead of individual documents, you see the total number of transactions per type (InvoiceReceived, InvoiceSent, SalesInvoiceBookedError and others), grouped by participant and channel.
Read more about working with documents in Viewing and searching documents.
When you open a document from Analytics, you see the detail screen. Here you find all metadata for the document (sender, recipient, document type), the complete audit trail with all processing steps, and any error messages. Users with the TechSupport role can also view and download the original XML file.
Full details about this screen can be found in Document details and audit trail.
In the Peppol section you view the participants registered under your access point for receiving via Peppol. This is a read-only view for informational purposes. Please note: this screen is currently not actively maintained and the displayed data may not always be up to date.
Creating and managing Peppol participants is not done via Control, but via ApManager at identity.econnect.eu or via the Enrollment API. The "+ Create Participant" button you may see is only visible to users with the ApManager role and refers to this management process.
Purple Pages is the built-in search function that lets you look up whether an organization is reachable via the Peppol network. You search by company name or identifier and see the available Peppol registrations, supported document types and the format in which they can receive and send documents.
The validation portal provides a visual interface for checking documents against the current Peppol standards. You upload a file via drag-and-drop or the file picker, and receive a report per document in PDF format after the check.
If you're familiar with the legacy platform at platform.econnect.eu, you'll notice that Control takes a different approach. The legacy platform offers a broad range of functionality, from creating invoices to managing partnerships and subscriptions. Control is more focused: it concentrates on document monitoring, audit trails and technical configuration.
What sets Control apart is the technical depth. While the legacy platform is more aimed at end users who send and receive invoices, Control provides insight into the PSB processing pipeline. You can see exactly what happens to each document, including retry attempts, error messages and delivery statuses. For partners and technical administrators, this level of transparency is invaluable.
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