Aduno
UK · NHS supplier mandate

Got a “Peppol or no payment” letter from the NHS?

Every NHS Trust in England requires PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 for supplier invoices. Aduno gets you registered, mapped, and sending validated invoices in 14 days — fixed price, no VAN lock-in.

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14-day connection guarantee · Fixed scope, fixed price · Same platform extends to Tesco, Sainsbury’s, foodservice

What the NHS actually requires

The four things every NHS Peppol invoice must have. Miss any one and the Trust’s automated workflow rejects it before a human ever sees it.

PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0

The invoice format every NHS Trust expects. Strict schematron validation; one wrong field and the invoice is rejected.

Peppol Access Point

You can’t send Peppol invoices directly. You need a registered Access Point (AP) provider that talks AS4 to the rest of the network.

GLN identifier

Every Peppol participant needs a Global Location Number. Your Trust will reject invoices without yours on the envelope.

SMP registration

The Service Metadata Publisher record that tells the network you’re reachable. Without it, your AP can send — but no Trust can find you.

14 days, four milestones

Fixed scope, fixed price. We handle the network registration, the AI handles the mapping, and we monitor the first 50 invoices end-to-end.

Step 1
Day 1

Scoping call

We confirm the Trust, the invoice volume, and the systems on your side (Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite, or anything with an API or CSV export).

Step 2
Days 2–5

Connect & register

We register you on the Peppol network as an Access Point participant, set up your GLN, and publish your SMP record.

Step 3
Days 6–10

Map & test

Our AI builds the BIS 3.0 mapping from your invoice data. We run test invoices against the Trust’s test endpoint until every schematron rule is green.

Step 4
Days 11–14

Go live

First production invoice is monitored end-to-end. We watch the next 50 transactions and fix anything that breaks before the Trust sees it.

Aduno vs the legacy NHS Peppol providers

Tradeshift, Basware, Pagero, OpenText. Same outcome — very different time, price, and lock-in.

Aduno
Legacy provider
Setup time
14 days
6–12 weeks
Setup fee
Fixed price, transparent
£2,000–£5,000
Monthly fee
From £399/mo, all-in
£100–£300/mo + per-invoice fees
Mapping control
You see and own every field
Black box managed by the vendor
Lock-in
No VAN, no contract minimum
Annual contracts, vendor lock-in
Beyond NHS
Same platform connects to any other Peppol or EDI partner
Add-on charge per new partner

Frequently asked

Which NHS Trusts does this cover?

All of them. NHS Trusts in England all use the same Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 standard. Once you’re a registered participant, you can invoice any Trust on the network without further setup.

I already have a Peppol Access Point — can I still use Aduno?

Yes. Aduno can act as your Access Point, or sit in front of an existing one. Most suppliers find it cheaper to consolidate to a single platform that also handles their other B2B integrations (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, foodservice wholesalers).

What if my finance system doesn’t export Peppol-shaped data?

It almost certainly doesn’t. That’s the whole point — Aduno’s AI mapping reads what your system does export (Xero invoices, Sage CSVs, a custom JSON, even PDF) and translates it into BIS 3.0 on the way out. You don’t need to change anything in your finance system.

Will my invoices actually get paid faster?

Trusts process Peppol invoices through automated workflows, so payment cycles are typically shorter than email-PDF or post. The bigger win is no rejection: a manually-entered invoice has a much higher rejection rate than a Peppol-validated one.

What does the 14-day connection guarantee actually mean?

If we don’t have you sending validated test invoices to the Trust within 14 days of kickoff, your fee is refunded. Going live in production depends on the Trust’s own onboarding queue — we don’t control that — but we guarantee we’ll be ready when they are.

Ready to be Peppol-compliant in 14 days?

Send us the Trust’s name and your invoice volume — we’ll come back with a fixed-price quote within one business day.

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