Technical reference for e-invoicing in Australia

The following sections describe the document types and formats used in Australia, message statuses, and common error-handling scenarios.

Document formats and types

Australia and New Zealand have developed shared specialisations of Business Interoperability Specifications (BIS) using the Peppol International (PINT) methodology. The following formats are used:

PINT A-NZ Billing for invoices and credit notes.
PINT A-NZ Self-billing for self-billed invoices and credit notes.

If you use VRBL, VRBL-Invoice-AU-1p0 automatically maps to the PINT A-NZ Billing and PINT A-NZ Self-billing documents for Australia.

Statuses and error handling

You can view the status of a message that represents an e-invoice. This enables you to check whether delivery succeeded. Depending on your access, you can do this:

Accounts receivable

You send messages to EDOC - Australia/New Zealand (UBL via Peppol). The standard statuses apply. For more information, see:

Accounts payable

You receive messages from EDOC - Australia/New Zealand (UBL via Peppol). The standard statuses apply. For more information, see:

Document formats and types

Statuses and error handling

Accounts receivable

Accounts payable

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