E-invoicing — Infivex

What it actually means

An invoice that is data, not a document

A PDF emailed to a customer is not an e-invoice. It is a picture of an invoice that a person still has to read and retype. An electronic invoice is the same commercial information in an agreed structured format — fields the receiving system can validate, post and pay without anyone opening it.

That is the whole shift, and everything else follows from it. Once the invoice is data, it can be checked against tax rules automatically, matched to a purchase order automatically, and delivered without either side agreeing on a file layout first.

It also explains why governments care. Structured invoices are what make VAT reporting verifiable at scale — which is why e-invoicing is moving from good practice to legal requirement across Europe.

Invoice and tax paperwork laid out across a desk

How it works

You do not connect to every customer. You connect once

Structured invoices travel over shared infrastructure rather than bilateral links. You join through an accredited provider, providers exchange with each other, and one connection is enough to reach everyone else who is connected. In most of Europe that infrastructure is the Peppol network; some countries run their own regime alongside it.

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Your system

The document is created where it was always created — in your ERP, as a normal sales invoice, order or dispatch advice.

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Your provider

It is converted into the structured format the destination country requires, validated against that country's rules, and handed over for transport.

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Their provider

The receiver's provider takes delivery. Sender and receiver never need a bilateral agreement or a shared file format.

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Their system

The document arrives as data in the recipient's software, ready to be processed — no PDF, no scanning, no re-keying.

This is why it scales where point-to-point EDI does not: connect once, reach everyone who is also connected.

Why it is on your roadmap

Compliance arrived before the business case did

Plenty of organisations would have got to structured invoicing eventually. What changed is that governments across Europe are making it mandatory, on dates that are already published.

France, September 2026. The DGFIP reform lands then. If you have French entities in the group, that date is closer than the project it implies.
The rules are national, not universal. Each country decides its own format, its own identifiers and its own route. France does not run its mandate on Peppol at all — French invoices go through government-registered platforms, in formats such as Factur-X. Belgium leans on Peppol. Germany adds Leitweg-ID routing for public bodies. "Are you ready for e-invoicing?" has a different answer per country.
Structured beats scanned. Because the document arrives as data, the receiving side stops paying people to retype it — the saving is on the inbound leg as much as the outbound.
More than invoices. Orders and dispatch advices travel the same rails, so what you build for compliance is reusable for the rest of the order-to-cash chain.
One platform, many entities. A group with several ERPs and several countries does not need a separate solution per entity.

At a glance

What it is: Invoices exchanged as structured data
Documents: Invoices, orders, dispatch advices
Main network: Peppol
Access Point: B2Brouter
France deadline: September 2026

E-invoicing E-procurement Structured data Send & receive

How Infivex fits in

Compliance is the obligation. SLinkHub is the answer

We do not sell the rules. What we sell is the thing that gets your Dynamics environment compliant and keeps it there while the rules keep moving.

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A certified Access Point

Infivex works with B2Brouter, a certified Peppol Access Point. That is the accredited doorway onto the network — the piece you cannot build yourself and should not try to.

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The platform in front of it

SLinkHub is our own platform, and it is how customers get their Dynamics environment — Business Central, NAV, BC - On Premise, Finance & Operations — sending and receiving electronically. It handles the formats, the validation and the country rules so your ERP does not have to.

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Questions

E-invoicing FAQ

No — and this is the single most common misunderstanding. A PDF, even a signed one emailed automatically, is an image of an invoice that a person still has to read and retype. An e-invoice is structured data the receiving system can process on its own. Under the incoming mandates, emailing PDFs will not count as compliant.

Not quite. Peppol is the network most of Europe uses to move e-invoices around, and it is a public one — not owned by us or by any vendor. But it is the delivery mechanism, not the obligation, and not every country uses it. France in particular runs its own regime through government-registered platforms. So the question to answer is "are we compliant in the countries we invoice in", and the route follows from that.

Delivery goes through an accredited provider that exchanges documents with other providers on your behalf. Infivex works with B2Brouter, a certified Peppol Access Point. You do not interact with it directly — SLinkHub sits in front of it, and your ERP talks to SLinkHub.

Business documents in an agreed structured format — invoices most visibly, but also orders and dispatch advices. The point is that they arrive as machine-readable data in the receiver's system rather than as a document a person has to read and retype.

That is when the French DGFIP reform lands. Note that France is not simply "switching on Peppol" — it runs its own regime, with its own registered platforms and its own formats, which is why we talk about e-invoicing readiness per country rather than about one network. It is worth treating as a project rather than a switch: identification, ERP readiness across every entity, and testing before the date rather than during it. The French requirements are built into SLinkHub ahead of the deadline, so the conversation is about your rollout, not about whether the platform will be ready.

Not because of e-invoicing. SLinkHub has interfaces for Dynamics NAV and Business Central - On Premise alongside current Business Central and Finance & Operations, precisely so a compliance date does not force an ERP migration on you. If you want to modernise, that stays a decision you make on business grounds.