Peppol Access Points Compared: 5 Certified Providers in 2026

A Peppol Access Point is a certified gateway that connects your business to the Peppol network. You cannot join Peppol on your own. You pick a provider that holds the certificate, runs the transport, and publishes your Peppol ID so other companies can find you. Since the Belgian B2B mandate started in January 2026, every Belgian business needs one. This page explains what the choice actually turns on, how to verify that a provider is certified, and how five providers differ.

One thing to know before you read further. Every certified access point can reach every other one. Your customers and suppliers are reachable no matter which provider you pick, so this is not a network-size decision. It is a decision about price, the way you want to work, and who answers the phone when a delivery fails.

Short answer

• You send under a few hundred documents a month and want no new software: pick an access point with an email workflow. e-invoice.be does this. You keep making invoices the way you do now.
• You are building an integration: pick an API-first provider with real SDKs and sandbox access. e-invoice.be and Storecove both qualify. Storecove covers more countries and formats.
• You want one tool for quoting, invoicing and Peppol: Billit is the established Belgian option, with the trade-off that you are buying an invoicing suite, not just transport.
• You already use accounting software: check whether it already ships Peppol. Odoo, Teamleader, Horus and Octopus all run their own certified access points. Adding a second provider is often pointless.
• You process thousands of supplier invoices a month: Basware and similar AP-automation vendors solve a different problem than transport, and price accordingly.

What a Peppol Access Point actually does

Four jobs, and every certified provider does all four. It holds the Peppol transport certificate. It runs the AS4 endpoint that other access points connect to. It publishes your Peppol ID and the document types you accept in an SMP, the address book of the network. It hands documents to you and takes documents from you in whatever way it supports: a portal, an email inbox, an API, or a plugin inside your accounting package. Read more about what Peppol is and how it works, or see how a managed Peppol Access Point and the Peppol API differ in practice.

Access points are certified by a Peppol Authority. In Belgium that is the federal government, through the e-invoice.belgium.be portal. Certification means the provider meets OpenPeppol's security, reliability and interoperability requirements. It does not mean the provider is good, cheap, or well supported. Certification is a floor, not a recommendation.

How big is the network, and how many access points are there?

Numbers below come from the public Peppol Directory export and from endpoint monitoring of the network, both read on 9 September 2026.

• 9,254,989 Peppol IDs are registered on the network, belonging to 7,323,038 distinct organizations. The gap is real: many companies hold more than one ID.
• 2,184,657 of those IDs are Belgian, second only to France. Belgium went from a Peppol backwater to the second-largest market on the network in under two years, which is what a mandate does.
• Globally the registered entities break down as roughly 3.98 million companies, 2.40 million sole traders and natural persons, 64,274 public bodies and 39,174 associations. Peppol is no longer a public procurement network.
• 991 access point hosts were visible on the network. 965 answered normally, 26 did not, and 36 incidents were open. That is roughly one endpoint in 38 unreachable at any given moment.

That last figure is the one nobody asks about in a sales call and everybody notices afterwards. When your provider's endpoint is down, senders get delivery failures and you usually hear about it from the customer rather than from a dashboard. Ask any provider for a public status page and a written availability commitment before you sign. If neither exists, that is your answer.

How to check a provider is really a certified Access Point

Plenty of software says "Peppol ready" while reselling somebody else's access point. That is legitimate, but it changes who you escalate to when delivery breaks. Three checks:

1. Look them up in the OpenPeppol register. The list of certified service providers is public. If the name is not there, they are reselling.
2. Ask for the Peppol seat ID. Every certified provider has one. Belgian seats look like PBE000076, Dutch seats like PNL000151. A provider that cannot produce theirs in one email is not the one running the endpoint.
3. Run a live lookup. Take a Peppol ID you know and check which access point answers for it. Our free Peppol lookup tool shows the answering endpoint and the document types accepted. This also tells you, before you send anything, whether a customer is actually reachable.

What the choice really turns on

Reach is identical everywhere, so ignore any provider that sells you on network size. Six things do differ.

• Total cost at your real volume, in both directions. Documents you receive are billed too, not only the ones you send. Add sent and received volume together before comparing anything. At e-invoice.be that is €0.25 per document on Pro and €0.18 on Enterprise, with no setup fee and no monthly minimum. A business sending 60 and receiving 90 documents a month pays 150 × €0.25, so €37.50. Run the same sum against a subscription: a plan bundling 50 documents wins at 50 and loses badly at 300. Ask every provider two questions. Is receiving billed? What happens when I exceed the bundle? Our cost comparison guide works through more scenarios.
• How documents get in and out. Portal, email, API, or a plugin inside software you already run. This is the decision people regret most. A portal means somebody logs in every day. An email workflow means nothing changes. An API means development time. Match it to who will actually do the work.
• What happens to a badly formed invoice. Peppol validation is strict. Some providers reject and leave you to fix it. Some correct common problems and tell you what they changed. Ask to see an actual rejection message before you commit. You can test your own file in our free invoice viewer.
• Document types beyond invoices. Credit notes are table stakes. Orders, despatch advices, invoice responses and self-billing are not. If a large customer will send you orders over Peppol, check that support explicitly.
• Onboarding time and what blocks it. Registering a Peppol ID is not instant anywhere, because somebody has to prove the company is really yours. At e-invoice.be the account is free and instant, and company verification takes 24 to 48 hours because it runs on a wire transfer check. Ask others what their check is and how long it takes. "Live in five minutes" usually means the verification is happening after you start sending.
• Getting out. Ask, before signing, how you export your invoice archive and how long the SMP migration takes. A provider that cannot answer that quickly is telling you something.

"The right Access Point should disappear into your workflow. If you have to think about your provider every time you send or receive an invoice, something is wrong. Look for transparent pricing, a public status page, and an integration path that matches your technical maturity."

Five providers side by side

Pricing column describes the charging model, not a quote. Only our own figure is a number, for the reason given in the disclosure above.

The largest Belgian Access Points, by Peppol IDs served

Five providers is a shortlist, not the market. Below are the Belgian-registered access point seats serving the most Peppol IDs, from the public Peppol Directory export of 9 September 2026. Several of these are accounting or business software you may already be paying for, which is worth checking before you buy anything new. Size measures installed base, not quality or price.

e-invoice.be does not appear in that top group. We are a newer and smaller access point, and the honest read of the table is that several competitors carry far more traffic than we do. What the table cannot show is price per document, how you get documents in and out, or who picks up the phone. Those are the things this page is about.

Switching Access Point without losing your Peppol ID

Your Peppol ID comes from your company number, so it survives the move. What changes is the SMP entry that tells the network which access point answers for you. The new provider updates it. Three things to handle first:

• Export your archive. Get your invoice history out of the old provider before you cancel, not after. Access to historical documents usually ends with the contract.
• Let in-transit documents settle. Anything already on the way should be delivered and acknowledged before the SMP entry changes.
• Allow up to 24 hours for propagation. SMP and SML changes are cached across the network. During the window some senders still route to the old endpoint, so do not close the old account on the same day you open the new one.

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