Government buyers don't just prefer Peppol — they automate rejection of anything else. Four components are mandatory for every invoice you send.
The strict invoice schema every UK government buyer expects. Schematron validation rejects any deviation; one wrong field and the invoice is bounced before a human sees it.
You can't send Peppol invoices directly. You need a registered Access Point provider that talks AS4 to the network. Aduno can act as your AP or sit in front of an existing one.
Every Peppol participant needs a Global Location Number. Government buyers will reject invoices that don't have yours on the envelope.
The Service Metadata Publisher record that tells the network you're reachable. Without it, your AP can send — but no government buyer can find you.
Fixed scope, fixed price. The platform handles registration; an Aduno engineer pairs with you on the cutover.
We confirm which government buyers you're invoicing (NHS Trusts, central government via CCS, local authorities), the invoice volume, and the systems on your side (Xero, Sage, NetSuite, custom finance system, even spreadsheets).
We register you on the Peppol network, set up your GLN, publish your SMP record, and configure the AS4 transport.
Our AI builds the BIS 3.0 mapping from your invoice data. We run test invoices against the buyer's test endpoint until every schematron rule is green.
First production invoice is monitored end-to-end. We watch the next 50 transactions and fix anything that breaks before the buyer sees it.
Tradeshift, Basware, Pagero, OpenText. Same outcome — very different time, price, and lock-in.
All of them. NHS Trusts, central government departments procuring via CCS frameworks, local authorities, and the wider public sector all use the same Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 standard. Once you're a registered participant, you can invoice any of them on the network without further setup.
There's a dedicated /uk/nhs-peppol-supplier page with NHS-specific FAQs, but the underlying integration is identical. NHS uses standard Peppol BIS 3.0 — no NHS-specific protocol changes.
Some Crown Commercial Service contracts historically nominated Tradeshift as the preferred Peppol provider. CCS now accepts any compliant Peppol Access Point, including Aduno. The named providers are recommendations, not requirements.
It almost certainly doesn't. That's the point — Aduno's AI mapping reads what your system does export (Xero invoices, Sage CSVs, custom JSON, even PDF) and translates into BIS 3.0 on the way out. You don't need to change anything in your finance system.
If we don't have you sending validated test invoices to the buyer's test endpoint within 14 days of kickoff, your fee is refunded. Going live in production depends on the buyer's onboarding queue — we don't control that — but we guarantee we'll be ready when they are.
Send us the buyer (NHS Trust, CCS framework, local authority) and your invoice volume — we'll come back with a fixed-price quote within one business day.
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