To send an invoice, you must have activated your organization at eConnect. Activating a company is described inCreating environment at eConnect.

ForSending invoices from a Belgian entityMore information can be found on our general website.

From the eConnect platform you canInvoices sentGo to the Belgian government. At the moment, only Dutch companies, known in the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, can be found via the search option. The data of the recipient can always be entered by hand. Make sure that you enter exactly the right value in the right way yourself: If it concerns a Belgian VAT / BAT number: with BE and then exactly 10 digits, always without spaces, dots or other separators.

Choose in the appSales invoice on the leftforNew invoice(or if an invoice has already been sent for 'Concept invoices'). UsageEnter address manuallyTo give up the right debtor.

Use inSupplierOne of the activated organizations in your area.During manual entry, the selection of theCountry code BEIt is important for the right routing. Save the debtor.

After saving, you will have the opportunity toBelgian VAT numberto fill in, which will be used for routing to the Belgian receiver. The VAT number consists ofBE + 10 digits. If the number is less than 10 digits, you must complete the number on the left, immediately after "BE", up to 10 digits with a 0 (zero). The number can be checked on the VIES website:http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/

After this, you can further complete, save and send the invoice. Please note that in many cases itOrder number requiredIt is to give in and also theOwn VAT numberIf for itShiftedhas been chosen. Otherwise, the invoice cannot be processed by the receiving party. For invoicing from the Netherlands to Belgium, you have to choose in gift for:
In general, you do not charge VAT to entrepreneurs from other EU countries. For goods, you apply the 0% rate and for services, VAT is shifted to your customer. Do you deliver goods or services to customers who do not declare, for example individuals? You then normally charge 6 or 21% Dutch VAT.
Source: taxdienst.nl

Also becomeNegative pricing rules not acceptedand the total amount of the invoice may not be negative for the Belgian network.
To get a negative invoice rule, the number may be entered negatively with a positive 'price' so that the total of that rule becomes negative.

If the above rules are not applied, the platform will notify that the Bis4a validation has failed.

If itBelgian VAT number is well filled inThe invoice will be sent viaPeppol. Via the PEPPOL network, the document is delivered to Mercury (the administrator of the Belgian part of the Peppol network), who then delivers the invoice to the correct recipient.

After sending, it can be checked whether there is areceipt confirmation is on the Flemish network.

The status exchange between the networks still expires by emailIt is important that the sender is entered email.