Sometimes it can. If you work in Odoo and mostly receive ordinary purchase invoices, Odoo can read them itself and turn them into a draft invoice, including when you send them to a fixed email address. Turn that on first and see how far it gets you. We help set it up or look at it together in a Pitstop. Read more about Odoo or about accounting and Peppol
Since 1 January 2026, Belgian VAT-registered businesses have had to send each other structured e-invoices via Peppol. For those invoices, retyping disappears. Checking, assigning and approving is still work. If your organisation is not VAT-registered, or only carries out exempt transactions, PDFs will keep coming in. Check with your accountant. Expense claims and certificates don’t come through Peppol anyway. Source: efactuur.belgium.be
If almost everything comes through Peppol, we only build what’s left: assigning to a project or grant, and the approval. A dedicated workflow pays off mainly when documents come in through different channels, go to more than one system or contain sensitive data.