Within this repository is a range of artefacts that will help Peppol Service Providers to implement and adopt the Australia-New Zealand extension of the Peppol BIS Billing and should be read in conjunction with that specification.
In December 2023 the new Peppol International (PINT) A-NZ Billing specification was published. The Australian and New Zealand Peppol Authorities have committed to migrating to that specification. The migration dates are confirmed, the PINT A-NZ Billing specification will become mandatory on 15 November 2024 and after 15 May 2025 the A-NZ Peppol BIS 3.0 extensions will be phased out and no longer available for use. For more information see the PINT A-NZ v1.0 (current) and PINT A-NZ v1.0.1 (effective 1 September 2024) specifications.
No localised versions of other Procure to Pay (P2P) specifications are required. See Procure to Pay section below for further details.
The A-NZ release notes are available here.
The A-NZ Invoice and Self-Billing specifications are substantially the same as Peppol BIS Billing with minor differences e.g. to accommodate GST rather than VAT.
With each Peppol release, changes to BIS Billing are reflected in the A-NZ specifications which are generally published approximately two weeks after the Peppol BIS release.
In the rare event of potentially significant changes being to BIS Billing made at short notice, the changes may be reflected in the A-NZ extension in the following biannual release.
The Peppol BIS Billing release notes are available here.
Peppol standards for business processes and transactions are updated biannually in May and November. Releases typically contain minor corrections and/or enhancements proposed by Peppol members (service providers or Peppol Authorities).
Key dates for Peppol releases are available here.
The specifications provide message syntax, business rules, code lists and implementation guidance, and are supported by centrally maintained validation artefacts to assist service providers to implement services that comply with the standards.
While BIS Billing is constrained to comply with European standards (EN16931), including using the term ‘VAT’ in the definition of a number of terms and business rules, no such constraint exists for the other Peppol eProcurement documents.
Peppol eProcurement specifications were updated in May 2020 to support non-VAT tax schemes including GST, and that allowed A-NZ providers to implement Peppol eProcurement documents ‘as-is’ without localisation.
Therefore the normal Peppol release processes apply to those documents without the need to subsequently issue localised specifications.
Peppol supports a suite of eProcurement business documents that can be used in Australia and New Zealand including;
The Peppol specifications and technical artefacts are available here.
If you have any questions or feedback, please contact your relevant Peppol authority: