E-invoices via Peppol
Updated on 2026-10-02
Sends an invoice to a customer with a Belgian VAT number as an e-invoice over the Peppol network, via HairConnect's access point.
Instellingen → Koppelingen → Boekhouding → E-facturen via Peppol (settings → integrations → accounting → e-invoices via Peppol).
Why this integration exists
Since 1 January 2026 an invoice between two Belgian businesses has to travel as a structured e-invoice over the Peppol network. A customer who pays in her company's name therefore expects the invoice in her accounting package — not as a pdf in her mailbox.
HairConnect builds that e-invoice itself, from exactly the same lines as the pdf. The sending is done by an access point: that is Recommand, with one account that HairConnect manages. You do not need a Peppol account anywhere. What you do is switch this integration on.
Switching on
There is nothing to fill in. Press the switch, and HairConnect registers your salon with the access point as a sender, using what is under Instellingen → Het salon (settings → the salon):
| What | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Name of the salon | Instellingen → Het salon |
| Street, postal code, city | Instellingen → Het salon |
| VAT number (= your enterprise number) | Instellingen → Het salon |
If something is missing, or the VAT number is not valid, the switch does not flip and the screen says what is missing. Nothing is invented: this is the sender on every e-invoice that leaves.
If it works, the Instellen (set up) window shows your salon's reference at the access point. That is for information only; you do not need to do anything with it.
Does the switch refuse with a message that the platform keys are missing? That is nothing you can fix: HairConnect sets those keys in its own panel. Let us know.
Sending only, no receiving
Your salon is registered to send e-invoices. Your supplier invoices keep arriving where they arrive today — with your accountant or in your accounting package. HairConnect deliberately does not take over that receiving: a business can receive on Peppol in only one place at a time, and quietly moving that would divert your wholesaler's invoices.
Testing the connection
Verbinding testen (test connection) asks the access point how it knows your salon — the name and the reference — and whether the registration has been confirmed. It only reads; nothing leaves.
What happens next
From then on, an invoice to a customer with a Belgian VAT number leaves via Peppol and by e-mail, with the Versturen (send) button — at the register right after making it, and in the list under Rapporten → Facturen. How that works, when only the pdf goes by e-mail and what the window shows beforehand is in Making an invoice.
Switching off
Flip the switch and no e-invoice leaves any more; the button on the invoice says the integration is off. Your registration at the access point stays, so switching on again does not create a second registration.
What is not there (yet)
- No credit and no price per transmission. Every e-invoice leaves without anything being charged. Whether and how that changes later is decided and announced separately.
- No foreign customers. Only a Belgian VAT number serves as a Peppol address today. For a customer with a foreign number the pdf by e-mail remains the route.
- No receiving of e-invoices through HairConnect — see above.