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Understand the UBL invoice export

Download a supported structured invoice while keeping network delivery and country requirements separate.

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Pepper exports supported issued invoices and credit notes as local UBL 2.1 files for the Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 profile. UBL stores named invoice fields in XML; it is a different output from the PDF. The official Peppol specification defines the profile’s syntax, rules and code lists.

Before exporting

Set the company and customer identities, electronic addresses, tax categories, item units and payment details the export needs. The application checks the document and lists problems before creating a file.

Owners, admins and accountants can export permitted records in the released product. The application checks access to the document before export.

The issued record retains its original evidence. A credit note names the original invoice. Export supports currencies with zero or two decimal places, such as JPY and EUR; it refuses three-decimal currencies such as BHD.

Scope matters

Pepper exports a file. It does not transmit over Peppol, act as an access point, look up recipients or submit invoices to government portals. It does not write XRechnung, Factur-X, CII, FatturaPA or KSeF files.

Supported tax categories are standard, zero, exempt and reverse charge. The export refuses seller countries whose additional national rules it does not verify: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Greece and Iceland.

Check the export manual and the recipient’s requirements before choosing this workflow. A file’s format alone does not establish that a particular recipient or legal mandate accepts it.

EU invoicing checklist · Read the manual