Software on Peppol · 🇧🇪 Belgium
Octopus and Peppol: its own access point
Octopus is a Belgian accounting package used by accountancy firms and the clients whose books they keep.
Also written as Octopus NV, Octopus Accountancy.
Measured by our own probes · data as of 20 Sept 2026, 19:30 UTC
Question 1
Does Octopus do Peppol?
Yes. Octopus is itself a Peppol service provider: it holds the certificate its documents travel on, and we probe its access point directly.
How we know Own certificate
Octopus NV is listed in our provider directory under its own name, and one of the endpoints we probe for it sits on Octopus' own domain.
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.besmp.octopus.be
Question 3
How many participants are behind it?
68,099
68,099 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 #25 of 340 Peppol providers worldwide by participants served.
Question 4
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 5
How do I find my Peppol ID?
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.
What this page is, and what it is not
Everything above comes from one of two places. The figures — participants, uptime, endpoints, certified status — are our own continuous measurements of the live Peppol network, taken 20 Sept 2026, 19:30 UTC. The link between Octopus and Octopus NV comes from the provider's own entry in the Peppol network, under its own certificate.
We are not Octopus, we have no commercial relationship with Octopus, and nothing here is taken from Octopus's marketing. Equally, nothing here describes what the product looks like from the inside: for pricing, features and the steps to switch Peppol on, read Octopus's own documentation. Where the two disagree, the vendor knows its product and we know the network.
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