E-invoices

You want to send an invoice (invoice) to the municipality. This can be done safely and quickly with an e-invoice.

What do you need to know

  • An e-invoice is an electronic invoice. You can send this from your administration system or accounting program directly to the administration system of the municipality of Hilversum, which will then process it automatically.
  • Anyone can send an e-invoice, even if you only invoice the municipality occasionally
  • An email with a PDF as an attachment is not an e-invoice

Benefits e-invoicing

  • Convenience and speed: the processing of your invoice is automatic
  • Accurate: no errors due to manual processing
  • Cheaper: no printing and postage costs

What do you have to do

E-invoicing goes through Peppol, a secure network that governments and organizations use to exchange electronic messages. The Peppol website explains how to register and which accounting systems Peppol supports.

Include a reference for your product or service on the e-invoice. You can request this from your contact person or client. We only process invoices with the correct characteristics. The municipality of Hilversum works with 2 characteristics, an obligation number and an invoice route number. They look like this:

  • Obligation number: an obligation number starts with a 3 and you place it under OrderReference
  • Invoice routing number: an invoice routing number starts with a 5 or a 6 and you place it at BuyerReference.

These are the payment details of the municipality of Hilversum:

  • Chamber of Commerce: 32170443 (with location number: 000005353793)
  •  OIN: 00000001001941914000
  • VAT/VAT: NL001941914B01

Do you have questions about e-invoices? Please contact the Financial Administration of the municipality of Hilversum via telephone number 035-6292052 or send an e-mail to fa@hilversum.nl.