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

For Sending invoices from a Belgian entity more information can be found on our general website.

From the eConnect platform you can send invoices 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 app Sales invoice on the left for New invoice (or if an invoice has already been sent for 'Concept invoices'). Usage Enter address manually to give up the right debtor.

Use in Supplier one of the activated organizations in your area. During manual entry, the selection of the Country code BE is important for the right routing. Save the debtor.

After saving, you will have the opportunity to Belgian VAT number to fill in, which will be used for routing to the Belgian receiver. The VAT number consists of BE + 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 it Order number required is to give in and also the Own VAT number If for it Shifted has 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 become Negative pricing rules not accepted and 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 it Belgian VAT number is well filled in The invoice will be sent through the External Network PEPPOL. 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 a receipt confirmation is on the Belgian network.

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