For self-employed
As a self-employed person, you already have enough on your plate. Doccle helps you save time and manage your administration more efficiently. So you have more time to invest in your business and your personal life.
Receive and process all your invoices digitally, prepare your VAT return effortlessly and keep track of both your personal and business documents. With a range of practical options within Doccle, you can make your administration run more smoothly.

Benefits for the self-employed
Always (legally) in order
Doccle stores all your documents within your account for as long as you want. This ensures that nothing gets lost and everything stays together in a secure environment. Also Peppol is integrated within Doccle. This means you are immediately compliant with the 2026 legislation. And you don’t need any new tools or software.
More time for other things
Doccle simplifies administration for your business, so you can spend more time on what’s really important to you. Think of easily finding documents, organising your account the way you want, or uploading relevant documents yourself.
Simple to share
With Doccle, you can easily automate the delivery of documents and invoices to your accountant or accounting package. This makes the dreaded quarterly closure a lot less daunting. Or you can share certain documents with a business partner so that everyone is up to date.
Get more out of Doccle
To get you started, we have listed a number of useful features within Doccle. For a complete overview of how to use Doccle as a self-employed person, click here.
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Doccle can automatically send invoices to accounting software, provided there is an email address available to receive them.
Fully compatible with:
Octopus, Dexxter, Silvasoft, Wings, Winbooks, AFAS, Accountable, Sage Cloud Demat, Billit, Billtobox, Okioki, Clearfacts, Lucy.Also possible for software using folders or platforms:
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Nothing, except providing an email address where your clients can send their invoices.
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Yes, if the accountant provides an email address to receive invoices, the client can configure Doccle to automatically forward each received or sent invoice.
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- Receiving invoices via Peppol? → Free in Doccle. (For example, for non-VAT-liable companies.)
- Sending invoices via Peppol? → €4/month, billed annually, with no limit on the number of invoices sent.
- For accountants? → No costs associated with your clients using Doccle.
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As soon as your client shares invoices via Doccle, you receive them at the same time as they do. Prefer a different method? Your client can collect their documents and send them in bulk via email, Dropbox, WeTransfer, or another agreed-upon channel at a suitable time.
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If your client shares invoices via Doccle, you will receive them initially via email as a PDF file. Over time, the UBL invoice will also be sent.
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At the moment, this is not yet possible. You can only register your company if you are the official representative (via itsme). We are currently working on a solution to make this possible. However, you can already share your Peppol connection with someone else so that they also receive the documents.
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No, you can only link itsme to one account. And itsme is required to identify yourself as the official representative of your company.
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For now, there isn’t one. If your company plans to send a large number of invoices, we recommend using our omnichannel solution.
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It’s useful to centralize your administration in Doccle. Thanks to Peppol integration in Doccle, you can store all your incoming and outgoing invoices securely in one place. You can also upload payment receipts and cash register tickets. This makes VAT declarations much easier since all your documents are in one central location.
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If your customer is not registered on Peppol, you will receive a notification when sending the invoice via Doccle. In this case, the invoice will be sent by email to ensure it reaches your customer.
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When you send an invoice via Doccle, Doccle checks, based on the company number (KBO), whether your customer is already registered on Peppol. If not, you will receive a notification, and the invoice will automatically be sent via email.
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Electronic invoices are sent in UBL format, which is not easily readable for customers. That’s why Doccle always attaches a PDF version of the invoice, ensuring that your customer can read it properly.
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For receiving invoices, you can only register with one provider. However, for sending invoices, multiple registrations are possible.
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To send invoices via Peppol, they must be formatted in the standardized UBL format. This allows e-invoicing to be processed automatically, from machine to machine or from one software system to another.
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The government’s goal is to encourage businesses to digitize their administration. By introducing mandatory e-invoicing, the invoicing process between companies subject to VAT and between companies and the government can be digitized.
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From 2026, invoices between businesses and the government must be sent electronically. The Peppol network (Pan European Public Procurement OnLine) has been chosen as the channel for electronic invoicing.
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You can only register your company once to receive invoices through Peppol .If your company is already registered to receive your peppol invoices through your pre-accounting of invoicing package, you cannot register through Doccle.
If you still prefer to receive your invoices via Doccle for free, you can cancel your registration in your pre-accounting package and start a new registration in Doccle.
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Today, invoices are often created in Word, Excel, or PDF, but these formats cannot be sent via Peppol. To send invoices through Peppol, they must be in the standardized UBL format so that they can be read by an accounting system.
With Doccle, you create your invoice as usual in Word, Excel, or an accounting software. You then upload this as a PDF in Doccle. Doccle automatically converts it into the UBL format and sends it via Peppol. A PDF version of the original invoice is also attached. Uploading as ULB is not yet possible.
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This is not absolutely necessary, but is of course always allowed.
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In the Doccle application, you get a notification if a customer is not yet registered on Peppol.
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Best to request this yourself from the supplier. For example, via email or by giving them a call.
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There is no standard procedure for this. It is best to inform your customers yourself that you will be sending your invoices via Peppol from now on.
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There is no standard procedure for this. It is best to contact your supplier yourself to ask to receive your invoices through Peppol.
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Best to inform your suppliers yourself that you are registered on Peppol.
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Registering on Peppol and receiving invoices is free. Sending invoices, which will be available soon, will require a small fee.
The standard price to send invoices via Doccle is 4€ per month, billed annually. There is no limit on the number of invoices to be sent.
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You can only be directed to the Peppol network for receipt of invoices via 1 application. If you are already registered elsewhere, please contact this application to cancel the registration.
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Create your free account
Don’t have a Doccle account yet? Then create one first. Once you have an account, you can add Peppol yourself via the map on the home page or via the “Connections” menu. And then follow the next steps.
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For sending invoices to foreign countries, check the regulation for those specific countries. Also for the invoices your might receive from foreign companies.It is not yet possible to process foreign invoices within our current application.
Nevertheless there is a clear trend within the European Union to standardize electronic invoicing, with Peppol as a widely used solution.
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You only need 1 account for both. So a separate account as a self-employed person is not necessary. By the way, you can split your private and business by working with categories.
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Invoices prepared in other programs, can be uploaded as PDF. So you can also create them via Word or Excel, but should save them as PDF. And then converted to the mandatory UBL format.
For the time being, it is not yet possible to create invoices directly in Doccle or to load self-written invoices.
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At Peppol, you can only send via UBL format. This is the European standard for e-invoices. An existing invoice via another format (word, pdf, excel, …) can be converted to UBL within Doccle and sent via Peppol from mid-2025. So you can keep your current way of formatting invoices.
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As a company, you have to register anyway because you have to receive your invoices via peppol. In addition, you have to send invoices via peppol to other companies and governments via peppol.
This will be possible with Doccle from spring. Nothing will change for your private customers.
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Invoices to individuals should not be sent through Peppol. But if you are subject to VAT, you need to register your company to receive your incoming invoices.
Receiving invoices via Peppol is free in Doccle. So you are in order for the law at no extra cost.
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The Share with Accountant feature in Doccle automatically sends invoices received in the format in which they arrived. The feature can forward all common formats such as pdf, word, excel and even xml and UBL.
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How do I share my documents with my accountant
Doccle is your gathering place to store and automatically forward all relevant documents. By registering your company on Peppol through Doccle, all your incoming invoices will automatically arrive in your Doccle account.
You can use the ‘Share with bookkeeper’ feature to automatically send these invoices to your bookkeeper or accounting package. More info on ‘sharing with your bookkeeper’ can be found via the link below.
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As a self-employed person, you are not required to work with an accountant. But keeping correct accounts is required by law. Even after 2026, you are not obliged to cooperate with an accountant. However, registration on Peppol is mandatory for sending company invoices.
Doccle can help you with this and collects all your incoming invoices in a secure place. Sending invoices will soon be possible via Doccle as well, where you can keep your way of preparing invoices (even if this is via excel or word, for example).
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If you are liable for VAT, you have to invoice electronically. You could argue that if you have to file a VAT return, you also have to invoice electronically.
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If you are not a Belgian VAT liable company, you do not have to register via Peppol. However, it can be convenient to do so, so that you can receive all your invoices in one place. With Doccle, you can do this for free.
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Step-by-step plan to add documents
On Doccle you can also upload your own documents that do not originate from Doccle senders.
You can upload up to 7500 documents of maximum 25mb per file, both via the PC version of Doccle and via the Doccle app.
Below you will find the steps for both versions of Doccle.
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What are categories and how can I use them?
To sort and organize your documents, you can assign categories to them. As soon as you have assigned one or more categories to a document, you can filter by these categories in your archive to quickly find the right documents.
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Full step-by-step plan
From now on, via the Doccle-app, you can ensure that your accountant or the accounting software of your accountant systematically receives the necessary documents without having to send them yourself.
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Further explanation
- At the top of your account, click Connections. You will then see an overview of your current connections.
- Click on the three dots next to the connection and then on Share. In the app, you share by clicking on Invite at the bottom in the connection.
- Fill in the email address of the person with whom you want to share the connection. You can optionally enter a different name for the connection and add a personal message for the recipient.
- Click on Send invitation to confirm the invitation.