# Peppol E-invoicing Lookup: can this company receive e-invoices? (`factline/peppol-e-invoicing-lookup`) Actor

Check in bulk whether companies are registered on Peppol and can receive e-invoices (BIS Billing 3.0 invoice and credit note), with participant IDs and registration date. By VAT number, company number or name. For Belgium's 2026 mandate and France, Germany, Poland. Pay per lookup.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/factline/peppol-e-invoicing-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [Matthew Sammels](https://apify.com/factline) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Automation, AI
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 peppol lookups

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Peppol E-invoicing Lookup

Before you send an e-invoice, check that the customer can receive it. This actor looks up companies in the **Peppol Directory** and tells you if they are registered and which documents they accept.

Why now: **Belgium** requires Peppol B2B e-invoicing since **1 January 2026**. **France** (from September 2026), **Germany** (issuing from 2027) and **Poland** (KSeF) are moving too.

### Input

- VAT numbers (`BE0400378485`), Peppol IDs (`0208:0400378485`), company numbers, or company names (with an optional country).

### Output (one row per company)

| Input | Company | Country | On Peppol | Receives invoices | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE0400378485 | Colruyt Group NV | BE | true | true | 2023-08-30 |

Fields: participant IDs, name, country, registered, can receive invoices (Peppol BIS Billing 3.0), can receive credit notes, document types (invoice, credit note, order, despatch advice, ...), number of document types, registered since.

### Price

**$0.002 per lookup.**

Not every Peppol participant publishes itself in the directory; "not listed" means not found there. Source: Peppol Directory, OpenPeppol.

***

Factline Data: official records as ready-made tools. Every row names its source.

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

One per line: a VAT number (BE0400378485), a Peppol ID (0208:0400378485), a company number, or a name.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter code to narrow name searches, e.g. BE.

## `matchesPerName` (type: `integer`):

For a name search: how many companies to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "BE0400378485",
    "Colruyt Group"
  ],
  "matchesPerName": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All rows as JSON.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

The main fields as a table.

## `csv` (type: `string`):

The results as a CSV file.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "BE0400378485",
        "Colruyt Group"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("factline/peppol-e-invoicing-lookup").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "companies": [
        "BE0400378485",
        "Colruyt Group",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("factline/peppol-e-invoicing-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "BE0400378485",
    "Colruyt Group"
  ]
}' |
apify call factline/peppol-e-invoicing-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,factline/peppol-e-invoicing-lookup"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/pCP7eFAeutadl042g/builds/MSCU9UWznS911msYK/openapi.json