Peppol International (PINT) Specifications for Australia & New Zealand
This section defines how compliance to PINT is measured and what are the requirements and expectations for the relevant parties.
Compliance to PINT is measured for the sender (C1) and the receiving (C4) parties. The sender and receiving parties may outsource their roles to service providers but not the responsibility. Service providers (C2 and C3) responsibilites as regards the message transfer is not dictated by the PINT methodolgy.
Sending compliance to PINT based BIS
Buyer (C1)
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A buyer shall not send messages that are not compliant to the specification identified by the invoice specification identifier (ibt-024).
Expectations towards the seller
The buyer expectation of how the seller will handle a self-billing invoice depends on the sellers registered receiving capability.
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If the invoice specification identifier (ibt-024) equals a registered receiving capabilty the buyer can expect the seller to handle the self-billing invoice according to the identified specification.
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If the invoice specification identifier (ibt-024) is within a more general registered receiving capability the buyer can expect the seller to handle the self-billing invoice according to the stated, more general, receiving capability.
Then the buyer can expect the seller to handle the self-billing invoice as follows.
| Level | Invoice specification identifier (ibt-024) matches a registered receiving capability | Invoice specification identifier (ibt-024) is within a more general registered receiving capability |
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Shared |
As defined in PINT |
As defined in PINT |
Aligned |
As defined by the invoice specification (ibt-024) |
As defined in the more general registered receiving capability |
Distinct |
As defined by invoice specification (ibt-024) |
As defined in the more general registered receiving capability but may ignore additional distinct content. |
Sending Access Point (C2)
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A sending access point (C2) shall upload the self-billing invoice to the network according to the Peppol service provider agreement.
Receiving compliance to PINT based BIS
Seller (C4)
A compliant receiver of a self-billing invoice shall handle the content of the self-billing invoice depending on their registered receiving capability.
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If the invoice specification identifier (ibt-024) equals a registered receiving capability the seller shall handle the self-billing invoice according to the identified specification.
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If the invoice specification identifier (ibt-024) is within a more general registered receiving capability the seller shall handle the self-billing invoice according to the stated receiving capability.
Sellers handling requirements
When receiving a self-billing invoice the seller shall handle the content depending on how it matches their receiving capability, as follows.
| Level | Invoice specification identifier (ibt-024) matches a registered receiving capability | Invoice specification identifier (ibt-024) is within a more general registered receiving capability |
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Shared |
As defined in PINT |
As defined in PINT |
Aligned |
As defined by the invoice specification (ibt-024) |
As defined in the more general registered receiving capability |
Distinct |
As defined by the invoice specification (ibt-024) |
As defined in the more general registered receiving capability but may ignore additional distinct content. |
Receiving access point (C3)
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A receiving access point shall transfer the self-billing invoice to the seller according to the Peppol service provider agreement.
Reversing self-billed invoices (credit notes or negative invoices)
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All PINT A-NZ Self-billing receivers must be able to receive and handle a self-billed invoice, positive or negative.
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The receiving capability of a Self-billed Credit Note is optional. If added then the sender may send self-billed credit notes but also negative self-billed invoice.
Note: this makes the negative self-billed invoice the base approach for reversing self-billed invoice because that functionality will be supported by all.