Electronic Invoicing Great Britain

Indicom's UK e-bills service

Electronic Invoicing in Great Britain is part of the broader global context of countries’ adherence to the introduction of e-invoices.

For B2G, in May 2019, the UK government adopted the EU Directive on e-invoicing for public procurement. Administrations are required to accept e-bills via the PEPPOL channel (BIS 3.0 format) from their suppliers as well as certain bodies affiliated with the National Health Services (NHS).

As for B2B, however, it is not currently mandatory even if the British Government has begun consultations for progressive adoption in the near future. The consultation, which will be conducted by Her Majesty’s Internal Revenue and Customs Service (HMRC), aims to gather views and suggestions from businesses on how to incentivise and support the adoption of e-invoicing in the UK.

In the meantime, companies wishing to send B2b invoices can do so in paper, PDF or Standard EDI format such as UN/EDIFACT, EANCOM and ODETTE, XML. In addition, storage is planned for 7 years.

IDC – Indicom Document Care, thanks to its experience with Italian e-invoices, is the expert and reliable provider for the management of British electronic invoicing. Thanks to our know-how, technological solutions and our network of partners, we are able to offer a complete proposal that covers all phases of the e-invoicing process.

For more information, visit the website of: The Invoicing Hub.

Electronic invoicing Great Britain: the service

The service offered in the context of e-invoicing will provide our customers with the necessary tools to send us documents, including a specific portal for individual countries within which it will be possible to fill in the invoice fields, upload the documents and subsequently receive and consult the various documents sent and received.
Indicom will also take care of the validation of active invoices with respect to specific regulations, the sending of documents to the Exchange Systems of the various countries and the storage in accordance with regulations.
During the first half of 2025, a plan is also planned to release several additional features in the field of supplier invoice management, which will allow customers to:

Consult Supplier Invoices, Orders and Delivery Notes on the portal, creating virtual dossiers

Perform manual or automatic reconciliation between these documents to check for errors

Use a work-flow for both error-free and anomaly invoices

Allow access to your suppliers to check the status of your invoices

Why rely on the outsourced e-invoicing service in Great Britain?

Single point of contact

Standard management and single supplier with which to interface.

Regulatory compliance

Full compliance with the regulations currently in force.

Scalability

Scalability and reproducibility of the international e-invoicing
model across multiple countries.

Improved relationships

Improvement of relations with Customers and Suppliers.