Tuesday 27th January, 2015

Austria has over 5,000 public entities now able to receive eInvoices through the PEPPOL network where it's been mandatory to invoice the Austrian Federal Government via eInvoicing since January last year.

Electronic invoices based on the PEPPOL specifications can be transmitted to the government by foreign and domestic suppliers using the PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure. The electronic invoice is then directly submitted to the government’s accounting system.

Other public sector entities are being integrated (e.g. municipalities and government owned companies) into the invoicing solution on a voluntary basis.

Large vendors, including Hewlett Packard, are also benefitting from using a standardised data exchange. Hewlett Packard, was the first vendor to implement eInvoicing with the Federal Government, since adoption in January last year. HP uses the 'E-Rechnung' solution a fully automated process by PEPPOL to send invoices to all federal ministries.

Mr. Bonwetsch, Program Manager, EMEA eInvoicing Program Direct Accounts, Hewlett Packard said, "The PEPPOL infrastructure allows a very flexible as well as standardised data exchange, and represents a stable and easy to use environment. The setup to reach the Austrian government was a straightforward business, a standardised European format via PEPPOL. HP is proud to continue to support successful customer eInvoicing solutions."