Launch of Peppol campaign! Access points available from 15 July; reservations now open

On 15 July WingArc1st Inc. will start providing the access points that are necessary for sending and receiving digital invoices as a Peppol service provider. Prior to this, we will start accepting advance reservations from 21 June, and have launched a campaign to promote sending and receiving invoices through Peppol.

■Campaign overview

1.Unlimited Peppol delivery	・Eligibility: Those who have registered to use Peppol in Japan by 30 November, 2023. ・invoiceAgent Transact free account users are eligible for unlimited Peppol delivery until 31 December 2023 (the usual free delivery limit is 10 messages per month). Paid users are not eligible for this campaign.
2. No registration fee required for Peppol ID	・Eligibility: Those who have registered to use Peppol in Japan by 29 February 2024. ・There is usually an initial fee to sign up for a paid invoiceAgent Transact plan. Customers who sign up during the campaign period will not be charged this fee. Peppol ID is a unique ID given to users to connect to the Peppol network.
3. Unlimited receipt of Peppol messages	・Eligibility: Those who have registered to use Peppol in Japan by 31 January 2024. ・Paid and free invoiceAgent Transact account users can receive messages delivered by invoiceAgent Transact for free. They can receive Peppol messages delivered by 3rd party access points for free until 29 February 2024 (this is usually a paid service).

After the campaign period, we will notify customers at least one month in advance before we start charging for each service. If we receive a large number of applications, it may take some time to register a new Peppol ID. Those who have made an advance reservation will receive a registration e-mail on the day the access point service starts. Please follow the procedures in this registration e-mail to get started. 

■Peppol addresses inconsistencies between tools

With the spread of electronic transactions across organizations, using inconsistent tools has become an issue (*1). This can lead to disparate business processes, as well as introducing errors, and is a concern for many companies. The increasing complexity and burden on back-office departments is also an urgent issue.

Inconsistent tools mean that the recipient needs to support multiple tools to meet customer and partner requirements. The major advantage of transferring and receiving via Peppol is that these different tools can be managed in a unified manner.

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As a Peppol service provider, we will continue to contribute to the promotion of back-office DX.

■Services we can provide as a Peppol service provider

Easy implement to your business	Even if your business system does not currently support Peppol, you can convert to Peppol format and distribute/receive documents by using WingArc1st services.
Compliance with the Electronic Books Preservation Act	You can store any digital documents you distributed or received in accordance with the Electronic Books Preservation Act.
Improvement of visibility	Peppol data can be converted to reports. This increases visibility and facilitates manual confirmation of the report contents. In addition, it meets the readability requirements of the Electronic Books Preservation Act (Article 3, Paragraph 1, Item 4).

See following site for detail：https://www.wingarc.com/product/ia/peppol_user/index.h (Japanese)

■About Peppol (Pan European Public Procurement Online)

Peppol is a global standard specifying operating rules for exchanging electronic documents such as invoices over a network, and is managed by OpenPeppol, an international non-profit organization based in Belgium. It is currently in use in more than 30 countries, including not only European countries but also countries outside Europe such as Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. The Japanese administration office is the Digital Agency, and JP PINT is the standard specification for digital invoices exchanged between the seller's access point (C2) and the buyer's access point (C3).

Visit the E-Invoice Promotion Association site for detail：https://www.eipa.jp/peppol (Japanese)

You can watch the latest B2B electronic transactions survey results and Peppol commentary in the following video: https://youtu.be/HN5xtwo58YA (Japanese)  

■About invoiceAgent

An electronic transaction service that enables the digitization, delivery, and return of B2B documents such as invoices, payment notices, order forms, and delivery slips. invoiceAgent centralizes document management and ensures compliance with the Electronic Books Preservation Act. The service provides a platform for converting all documents across organizations into data and distributing them securely and at high speed in the cloud.
https://www.wingarc.com/en/product/ia/documents/index.html

  

(*1) Reference: Survey on electronic B2B transactions released April 25 2023:
.https://corp.wingarc.com/public/202304/news2564.html (Japanese)