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.

Doccle for independants

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.

Applications

E-invoicing & Peppol
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VAT return & accounting

Coming soon

Doccle account
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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.

  • This is not absolutely necessary, but is of course always allowed.

  • In the Doccle application, you get a notification if a customer is not yet registered on Peppol.

  • Best to request this yourself from the supplier. For example, via email or by giving them a call.

  • 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.

  • There is no standard procedure for this. It is best to contact your supplier yourself to ask to receive your invoices through Peppol.

  • Best to inform your suppliers yourself that you are registered on Peppol.

  • Registration on Peppol through Doccle is completely free. Receiving (Peppol) invoices also remains free. To send Peppol invoices charge an annual subscription.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Create your free account
  • The requirement for Peppol applies to Belgium. For specific regulations in other countries, you should check first. Although there is a clear trend within the European Union to standardize electronic invoicing, with Peppol as a widely used solution.

  • 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.

  • For the time being, it is not yet possible to format invoices in Doccle. Only invoices created in other programs, such as office applications word or excel, or even invoices created with pen and paper, can be uploaded and converted to the mandatory UBL format.

  • At Peppol, you can only send via UBL format. This is the universal 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.

  • 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.

  • Invoices to individuals should not be sent through Peppol. It is still interesting to register your business through Doccle. After all, all your incoming invoices will arrive at you via Peppol.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    How do I share my documents with my accountant
  • 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).

  • Here you need to check whether you are subject to VAT. Anyway, registration via Doccle remains interesting for receiving and storing your incoming invoices.

  • Peppol is only for invoices with VAT to companies. However, if you are not subject to VAT, registration within Doccle is convenient. In fact, you can receive and store all your incoming invoices in it for free.

  • 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.

    Step-by-step plan to add documents
  • 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.

    What are categories and how can I use them?
  • 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.

    Full step-by-step plan
    1. At the top of your account, click Connections. You will then see an overview of your current connections.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. Click on Send invitation to confirm the invitation.
    Further explanation