e-invoicing in Iceland

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• Overview of B2G, B2B and B2C e-invoicing in Iceland.
• Key formats, networks and channels you may need to support.
• High-level regulatory and compliance considerations.

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Iceland is part of the European Economic Area and uses the Peppol network for e-invoicing. The Icelandic Peppol Authority doesn’t mandate a local interoperability specification, and the Icelandic CIUS ships with the standard Peppol package, validations included. This means plain Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 works as is: if your integration already supports Peppol BIS, there’s nothing extra to build for Iceland. Maventa supports Icelandic companies in sending and receiving over Peppol and within Maventa’s network, and in receiving PDF invoices by email via AutoScan.

Icelandic company account registration

When registering a new Icelandic company via the API, the kennitala (Icelandic legal entity identifier) must be used as the company identifier. Company registration is open to trusted partners approved by Maventa. Contact Maventa support to get started.

Kennitalas of natural persons are rejected: only legal entity identifiers are accepted. No live registry lookups are performed at this time. Icelandic companies don’t need a VAT number, and Maventa doesn’t derive one from the kennitala.

Icelandic companies can be registered only via the API, not through the Maventa user interface. For the full list of identifiers per country, see companies and settings.

Customer authentication

Before Maventa can send and receive invoices on behalf of an Icelandic company, the company must be authorised through the partner’s approved customer authentication process. Once authenticated, authorise the company via the API.

Sending in Iceland

Supported delivery channels in Iceland

For B2B and B2G, sending in Iceland is supported in the following priority order: through Maventa’s internal network and via the Peppol network. If electronic delivery is not possible, email and postal delivery (printing) serve as fallback options. Printing is handled in Finland, and all postal deliveries are sent from Finland.

For consumers (B2C), Maventa enables delivery through email or print.

Sending format over Peppol

Invoices to Icelandic recipients are sent as Peppol BIS Billing 3.0. No Iceland-specific format or extra validation is needed, as the Icelandic CIUS is part of the standard Peppol package.

Receiving in Iceland

Icelandic companies that have activated e-invoice receiving can receive invoices through Maventa’s internal network. To receive from the Peppol network, register the company as a Peppol receiver. When the request leaves out scheme and endpoint_id, Maventa forms the Peppol address from the company’s kennitala. If you send them, use the scheme 0196 and the ten digits of the kennitala.

Receiving addresses for Icelandic companies

Scanning

Scanning is available in Iceland via AutoScan, which turns PDF invoices sent by email into e-invoices.

e-invoicing formats used in Iceland