Activate a mandate in ELR

To use E-Invoicing and Live Reporting (ELR), you must activate at least 1 country mandate.

To continue with this integration guide, activate at least 1 mandate. We recommend using a Peppol-based country mandate.

Activating a mandate allows you to:

Send a document (flow = out)
Receive the document as an inbound document (flow = in)

This helps you test scenarios such as receiving purchase documents and validating your integration.

Create a Peppol identifier for your Sandbox tenant

To test document flows, create a Peppol identifier for your Sandbox tenant.

Sign in to the ELR UI for your Sandbox environment using your credentials.
Add or update a company. For details, see Create a company or Update a company.
Add peppol mandate. For details, see Add mandates.
Complete peppol activation. For details, see Complete activation for Peppol.

Use the Peppol identifier to test document flow

To simulate receiving an inbound document, use the Peppol identifier in your document data.

Within the data part of the SubmitDocument request (the document UBL):

Pass the Peppol ID value (for example, DE987654321) in the following UBL Invoice 2.1 paths:

Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID
Invoice/cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID

Pass a value from the code list that maps to the countryCode of the VAT number in the following UBL Invoice 2.1 paths. For example, if the countryCode is DE, use schemeID = 9930:

Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID/@schemeID
Invoice/cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID/@schemeID

You can also test this by adding Postman environment variables named endpointId and schemeId and assigning the values as described above.

Send the SubmitDocument request. For details see, Submit the document.

After you submit the document:

The outbound document is created
A corresponding inbound document is also created

You can view both documents using the GetDocumentList endpoint.

Note

You can only test inbound document scenarios for Peppol-based country mandates. For non-Peppol mandates, testing depends on whether the country mandate provides a test environment and whether you have valid test credentials. Some mandates support limited testing and may not allow full end-to-end document flow.