Is PEPPOL e-Invoicing an accounts payable AP or accounts receivable solution?

While Peppol e-invoicing can help enable AP & AR solutions, Peppol is about the format and delivery of e-invoices and not about an organisation's business rules around how those invoices should be processed. So if we look at the relationship between Storecove and ACMO that might make this a little clearer. ACMO’s APAY solution is an Accounts Payable solution. Once it receives invoices, it can help an organisation apply its business rules around how that invoice should be processed. This could include anything from GL Coding to PO matching to routing for Approvals or doing validation checks. What Storecove brings to the table is the Peppol Access Point service so that e-invoices can be fed directly into that solution. So while emailed / digital invoices are put through an OCR process to extract information from a page which is then fed into APAY, e-invoices already exist as data and don’t need to go through that process. It's more accurate because the e-invoice is literally what came out of the senders' system and not a software application’s attempt to read something on a page. Once they are inside the APAY solution, both digital invoices and e-invoices are processed the same way with the same business rules irrespective of their format or how they were received.
In short and in the context of Accounts Payable, Peppol e-invoicing is about a new ingestion channel for invoices, it’s not about prescribing new separate business rules for how you need to process them.
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