--- title: "Mandatory e-invoicing incoming: How will your country be affected?" description: Mandatory e-invoicing is here. Learn how EU rules and Peppol will impact your business and billing automation. --- [Vince News ](https://vincesoftware.com/vince-news) # [Mandatory e-invoicing incoming: How will your country be affected?](https://vincesoftware.com/vince-news/mandatory-e-invoicing-incoming-how-will-your-country-be-affected) Written by [Jon Marius Roald](https://vincesoftware.com/vince-news/author/jon-marius-roald) | Sep 1, 2025 11:58:13 AM #### B2B-invoicing is changing. The law will require you to send and receive all invoices digitally, and for many businesses it is happening surprisingly soon. Are you prepared?  Starting on the **1st of July 2030**, all intra-EU B2B and B2G invoices must be issued as structured e-invoices (EN-16931 format), as per the EU’s new ViDA regulations. This is the absolute latest deadline, though, and many countries, like Poland, France, Germany and Belgium, are already rolling out national mandates in the very near future. If you are a business operating in Europe or doing business *with* Europe, it is important that you know that this **will affect you.** – This will affect every EU business. Even if you rarely trade across borders, the shift to standardized e-invoices and automated VAT reporting will touch your finance, IT and compliance processes, so this really isn’t something you can ignore, warns Fredrik Heimerback, chief services officer at Vince. - Read also: [– This will affect every business](https://vincesoftware.com/vince-news/eu-vida-reforms?hsLang=en)   ### Peppol: The go-to standard for e-invoicing Depending on your country, the approved format of the e-invoices will vary a bit, but the format that will guarantee your compliance everywhere is Peppol. [Peppol](https://peppol.org/) is becoming the go-to standard for e-invoicing, and for good reason. Peppol provides a shared language for electronic invoicing, making business transactions faster, easier, and more secure. It standardizes invoices, purchase orders, and other documents. **Now instead of sending *one* invoice to *one* company in *one* format, you can send out all your invoices across the Peppol system with the click of a button, and it will distribute it automatically to the all the right receivers in the correct format. Full billing automation.** - [See how we solve billing automation and e-invoicing at Vince](https://vincesoftware.com/peppol-billing-automation?hsLang=en)   ### Peppol across the globe From January 2025, all **German** companies had to be able to receive invoices in the Peppol format. And from the 1st of January 2027, they must start sending them too. For **France**, the date to note is September 1st 2026. All French companies have to be able to receive e-invoices in the Peppol format by then, and big companies must send them and perform e-reporting, too. In **Belgium**, the mandatory e-invoicing hits even sooner, on January 1st 2026. From that day, you have to send B2B e-invoices via the Peppol network. And trailing right behind is **Poland**: Mandatory e-invoicing starts February 1st, 2026. In the United Kingdom, the date to watch out for is April 1st 2029. From that date, all VAT invoices will need to be issued as structured e-invoices. This will affect all VAT-registered businesses trading in the UK. Outside of the EU, **Australia** required all businesses to accept Peppol-format e-invoices by July 2025. In **Singapore**, its Peppol-powered InvoiceNow system will be mandatory for new GST registrants by November 2025, fully enforced by April 2026. - [See a full list of countries involved here](https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/DIGITAL/pages/467108874/eInvoicing+Country+Factsheets+for+each+Member+State+and+other+countries?utm_source=chatgpt.com)   ### Real-time monitoring and automation One thing a standardized system allows for, is full visibility of all your transactions. At Vince, we help connect your ERP system to the Peppol network, as well as collect all your transaction data in an intuitive dashboard, where you can monitor your invoices and other documents in real-time. If there’s an error, you’ll know what went wrong and how to fix it. This transparency not only enhances operational efficiency but also helps businesses maintain compliance with evolving regulations.     ##### Is your business ready for these changes? Let us give you a quick Peppol check-up to see how much work needs to be done to guarantee you are compliant.   [View full post](https://vincesoftware.com/vince-news/mandatory-e-invoicing-incoming-how-will-your-country-be-affected) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Jon Marius Roald" }, "dateModified" : "2025-12-09T09:40:24.393Z", "datePublished" : "2025-09-01T11:58:13Z", "headline" : "Mandatory e-invoicing incoming: How will your country be affected?", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 1251, "url" : "https://6992543.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6992543/5.%20Marketing/Campaigns/2025_Peppol/PEPPOL%20blog.jpg", "width" : 2496 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://vincesoftware.com/vince-news/mandatory-e-invoicing-incoming-how-will-your-country-be-affected", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60, "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png", "width" : 60 }, "name" : "Vince News" } } ```