New e-invoicing regulations in Australia mean any customer can demand a Peppol invoice from 1 July 2025. Keep emailing PDFs and you risk stalled payments.

Ready to drop PDFs? Here’s the plain path: pick invoicing software that’s “Peppol-ready,” use the new PINT A-NZ template built for Australia, send one test e-invoice before July 2025. Do these three things, and you’ll be fully compliant, and paid faster. Long before the rules kick in.

What Are E-invoicing Regulations for Small Businesses in Australia?

What Is Peppol, and Why Should You Care?

What This Means for You?

Is It Mandatory?

Benefits That Make It Worthwhile Anyway

Start E-invoicing In Less Than A Week

 

 

What Are E-invoicing Regulations for Small Businesses in Australia?

Most small businesses in Australia still send invoices as PDFs. That’s about to become a problem.

E-invoicing is not yet compulsory for small Australian businesses, but:

Commonwealth-government customers already expect Peppol e-invoices.

Large companies must supply an e-invoice on request since 1 July 2023 and medium companies since 1 July 2024; the next proposed phase covers all businesses from 1 July 2025 under the Business e-invoicing Right (BER) consultation.

From 15 May 2025 every Peppol participant must use the new PINT A-NZ format, so any small business already e-invoicing needs software that supports it.

 

 

What Is Peppol, and Why Should You Care?

Peppol is an international network for sending invoices directly from your system to your customer’s, without emails, attachments, or PDFs.

It’s fast, secure, and fully compliant. And soon, platforms that don’t support Peppol will be seen as outdated.

 

 

What This Means for You?

If you're a small business:

You’ll eventually need to issue and receive invoices via Peppol.

You’ll need invoicing software (or an API like Space Invoices), that’s Peppol ready.

You’ll need to ditch manual invoicing workflows.

If you're building a SaaS or accounting platform:

Your users will expect e-invoicing.

Integrating a Peppol-compliant API early gives you a competitive edge.

You'll help users stay compliant and automate faster.

 

 

Is It Mandatory?

Right now:

Yes, for government agencies.

No, for private businesses, but it’s coming.

The Australian Treasury has already proposed mandating it for all businesses in stages, and many large enterprises are adopting it voluntarily.

Small businesses under $10 m turnover currently have no legal obligation to adopt e-invoicing, unless you:

sell to government, or

your customer invokes the BER once Phase 3 is legislated.

 

 

Benefits That Make It Worthwhile Anyway

$20 saved per invoice on average once you ditch PDFs and data-entry.

Faster payments (many agencies pay Peppol invoices in five business days).

Far lower risk of email redirection and invoice-spoofing scams.

Automatic GST coding reduces BAS errors.

 

 

Start E-invoicing In Less Than A Week

PDFs are dying. Peppol is the new standard.

At Space Invoices, we are both an e-invoicing API and a Peppol Access Point, which means we handle the full compliance journey for you.

Whether you’re a platform, SaaS tool, fintech, or digital marketplace, we help you:

Become Peppol-ready in Australia and 70+ countries

Support and upsell your clients globally

Automatically archive and report invoices to the ATO

Integrate in under a week

Eliminate manual errors and lower costs

Do you have questions about becoming compliant in Australia?

We’re ready to help.

Additional reading:

• 2030 Intra Community E-invoicing Mandatory EU ViDA
• 3 Best White-Label Invoicing APIs for B2B SaaS, Fintech, and Neobank Platforms
• Can I issue an invoice without GST New Zealand