The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Nov. 25), expands Payhawk’s eInvoicing capabilities throughout Europe, letting finance teams receive, validate, approve and pay structured electronic invoices directly within the platform, without additional systems or integrations.
As Payhawk notes in a news release, the partnership is happening amid a wave of reforms surrounding eInvoicing in the European Union.
“These reforms aim to increase transparency, combat fraud, and accelerate digital transformation,” the release said. “Yet, for multinational companies, fragmented national frameworks and differing formats — from Factur-X to UBL — create complexity and risk.”
This partnership, the companies say, is designed to offer a single, connected compliance network. The integration combines Invopop’s connectivity to the PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line) e-procurement framework with Payhawk’s accounts payable (AP) automation, to ensure that structured eInvoices flow straight into Payhawk.
From there, they are automatically validated against local standards ahead of approval, payment and real-time ERP reconciliation.
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“As more EU countries adopt mandatory eInvoicing, interoperability and compliance must scale together,” Invopop Co-founder and CEO Juan Moliner said in the release. “Partnering with Payhawk allows us to deliver both through a unified framework, ensuring companies can operate confidently as the European eInvoicing landscape evolves.”
As PYMNTS wrote last month, invoicing is both the bedrock of supply chains, but also a potential point of weakness, as errors and fraud in invoicing can drain liquidity, erode trust and, as seen from recent corporate headlines, even accelerate collapse.
“Double invoicing, where the same goods or services are billed twice, may pose one of the most damaging and recently visible examples,” that report said.
“Sometimes it’s accidental, the by-product of re-submissions or duplicate data entry. Other times, it’s deliberate. Either way, it represents a point of vulnerability and loss of control that leads to overpayments, delayed reconciliations and friction between buyers and suppliers.”
Manual and fragmented accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable workflows exacerbate these issues. Many companies continue to rely on emailed PDFs and spreadsheets that must be keyed into separate systems.
“That creates blind spots where duplicates can pass unnoticed or where bad actors can slip in doctored invoices,” the report said. “PYMNTS has reported that manual AP processes remain one of the biggest risk vectors for invoice fraud and vendor impersonation attacks, as finance departments struggle to reconcile across disconnected systems.”
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