Octopus and Peppol: its own access point

Question 1

Is Octopus a Peppol access point?

Yes. Octopus is itself a Peppol service provider: the Octopus Peppol access point runs under the certificate its documents travel on, and we probe it directly.

Question 2

Which access point serves Octopus?

🇧🇪 Octopus NV, a Peppol operator in Belgium, runs the access point and the SMP that Octopus's documents pass through. Octopus NV is on OpenPeppol's certified service provider list.

The endpoints we probe

• ap.inaras.be
• smp.octopus.be

Full provider profile: Octopus NV →

Question 3

What is the difference between Peppol and Octopus?

Peppol is the network: a shared set of rules and certified access points that carry e-invoices from one company to another. Octopus is software that connects to that network, and here it is also the access point: the company holds its own Peppol certificate, so no second operator sits between Octopus and the network.

Which other invoicing or accounting software supports Peppol? All software on Peppol, with the access point each one uses →

Question 4

How do I register or activate Peppol in Octopus?

Through Octopus itself. Registering for Peppol means your company number is published on the network against an access point, and with Octopus that is the Octopus access point itself. We do not use Octopus, so we do not describe the steps to activate Peppol in it; Octopus's own documentation does. What we can show is the result: once the registration is made, your Peppol ID can be looked up in the Peppol Directory.

Question 5

How many participants are behind it?

68,195

68,195 Peppol participants are registered on Octopus NV's access point. That is Octopus's own footprint on the network, counted from the live registration data our crawlers resolve, not a figure Octopus publishes.

That makes Octopus NV #26 of 335 Peppol providers worldwide by participants served.

Question 6

Is Octopus NV reliable?

100.00%

Over the last 30 days we measured 100.00% uptime on Octopus NV's Peppol endpoints, from our own probes in several regions rather than a status page the operator writes about itself. If Octopus cannot deliver an invoice, this is the number that explains it.

Uptime history and incidents for Octopus NV → · Is Peppol down right now?

Question 7

How do I find my Peppol ID for Octopus?

Your Peppol ID is not something Octopus invents for you. It is your own company number, written behind a four-digit ISO 6523 prefix that says which national register the number comes from: in Belgium that prefix is 0208 for the KBO/BCE enterprise number, or 9925 for the VAT number.

Build yours, then look it up in the Peppol Directory — if it resolves, you are registered and reachable; if it does not, you are not on the network yet, whatever any dashboard says. The prefixes for every market are in the table there.