Towards a smooth accounting preparation
Doccle is now also playing its part in helping the self-employed to digitise their administration by offering them free registration on Peppol in order to be ready for the mandatory e-invoicing. Freelancers, consultants, sole traders and small SMEs can now use Doccle to make their administration run more smoothly. And this also makes life easier for accountants.
Doccle: collection point for all incoming invoices
For small self-employed people, it is often too expensive or too complex to purchase applications to organise their invoicing neatly and deliver it to the accountant on time. They often keep their invoices in folders on their PC, on paper in folders or even in their mailbox. The worst cases have to look for receipts in their pocket or handbag.
Every quarterly closing becomes a hellish search for invoices and receipts. Not only for the self-employed but also for the accountants, who have to enter all invoices and receipts into the accounts on time. To make this administration, and certainly the quarterly closing, run more smoothly, self-employed people can now turn to Doccle. They get free access to Peppol to receive all their business invoices digitally in their Doccle account.
They can then have these invoices automatically forwarded to their accountant or accounting application. The bookkeeper thus receives invoices faster and in a fully structured manner, which will significantly reduce the workload peak during a quarterly closing.
Doccle is compatible with all accounting packages. All invoices and receipts collected in Doccle are automatically forwarded to the (pre-)accounting application.
Advantages accountant
- All entrepreneurs, including the less digitally adept, can easily access Peppol free of charge via their Doccle account
- Incoming invoices are automatically and structured via Doccle to the bookkeeper or accounting tool
- The bookkeeper receives the invoices as soon as they are received, which allows the bookkeeper to spread out his work more and avoids extra workload at the quarterly close
- Neither the bookkeeper nor the entrepreneurs need any additional software or application
- The bookkeeper saves time collecting and entering invoices
- Our customer service desk relieves the bookkeeper of all questions concerning Peppol and registration
Advantages entrepreneurs
- No need for new, expensive software applications to be in order for the new legislation because a lot of business owners already have a Doccle account
- All invoices and proofs of payment are collected together in one secure place, done with searching at quarterly tax returns
- Doccle is compatible with all (pre-)accounting packages
- A Doccle account with access to Peppol is free of charge
- In 2025, sending invoices from a Doccle account to Peppol will also be made possible
More info on what features Doccle still offers for the self-employed can be found via this link.
Business owners who invoice only to private persons must also have Peppol access to receive invoices in the future.
Sending invoices from Doccle via Peppol will also be possible in 2025
Entrepreneurs who invoice other companies themselves are also required to send these invoices via Peppol. This too will be possible from the Doccle account. During 2025, entrepreneurs, registered via Doccle on Peppol, will also be able to send invoices via the same access.
To send invoices via Peppol, these must also be formatted in a standard UBL format so that they can be processed automatically. More than half of self-employed people in Belgium create their invoices with an office application such as Excel or Word. To unburden them, Doccle has the unique ability to simply upload outgoing invoices created with such office applications via the Doccle account.
Doccle then automatically generates the complex UBL format and sends it via the Peppol network. Thus, these self-employed people do not have to make any adjustments to their way of preparing invoices and do not have to purchase any new applications for this purpose.