Sending and receiving invoices using different software on the PEPPOL network

“We have different software for sending invoices than we do for receiving them. Does each system need its own access point or can we use one for both?”
You can use one access point to send e-invoices and another to receive them. For example, if you are a Xero customer and also an ACMO APAY customer, you might want to use Xero’s own Access Point to send e-invoices directly from Xero, however, when you receive them you will want to use APAY access point, which is provided by Storecove, so that the invoices are delivered into APAY rather than straight in Xero.
Alternatively, you can use the same service for both sending and receiving.
Much depends on the systems you use and whether the Access Point service is being provided by the vendors you get those systems from. One thing you do need to be mindful of though is that you can only receive from one Access Point. For sending you can as many different ones as you need to, but you can only receive through one. So think of it kind of mail or the postal service. If you want to send someone a letter you can post it in any postbox you like, but you only have one mailbox at the end of your driveway. The key is to identify where you need the incoming invoices to be delivered and which system you need them to be in first. So in the Xero / APAY example, I used just before, you want the e-invoices to be delivered into APAY so that you can apply your business rules to the way they are coded, approved, matched, etc. You don’t want the e-invoices to bypass APAY and go directly into Xero because then they haven’t gone through your business process.
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