HOW IT WORKS

From invoice to IRAS

How an invoice and its data travel on InvoiceNow, what you need to take part, and a short checker that points you to your next step.

HOW AN INVOICE TRAVELS

How an invoice
travels

InvoiceNow sends invoices between businesses through Access Points, and reports the invoice data to IRAS. How it travels depends on whether you are sending or receiving, and whether the other business is on InvoiceNow too.

I AM THE…

WHO IS ON INVOICENOW?

TYPE 1AYou send, and your customer is on InvoiceNow too

IRAS

INVOICENOW NETWORK

YOUR BUSINESSES

IRASTAX AUTHORITY

Your solutionACCESS POINT

Their solutionACCESS POINT

SupplierYOU

Customer

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IssuePEPPOL INVOICEYou issue a Peppol invoice in your InvoiceNow-Ready Solution and send it to your Access Point. Solutions with GST validation checks alert you if GST is wrongly charged.

INVOICECOPY TO IRASOFF-NETWORK COPY

TYPE 1AYou send, and your customer is on InvoiceNow too

INVOICE → YOUR BUSINESS PARTNEROver the InvoiceNow network: your Access Point forwards the Peppol invoice to your customer’s Access Point as structured data.

INVOICE DATA → IRASType 1A submission: once the invoice is sent to your customer’s Access Point, a copy of the Peppol invoice goes to IRAS automatically. Your customer then files their own copy (Type 1B).

WHAT YOU NEED

A Peppol ID

Your business’s unique address on the InvoiceNow network. Ask your IRSP or Access Point provider to register your business in the SG Peppol Directory with your UEN. [IRAS page]

CHECK IF YOUR BUSINESS HAS ONE

An InvoiceNow-Ready Solution Provider (IRSP) or Access Point (AP)

An IRSP offers accounting or finance software already connected to the network through an accredited Access Point. If you run your own in-house system, you connect it through an IMDA-accredited Access Point Provider. [IRAS e-Tax Guide paras 3.8–3.9]

Find an IRSP or Access Point →

NEXT STEPS

What should I do?

1. Where are you with InvoiceNow?

Tell us where you are and we'll point you to the right next steps.