Peppol ID: what it is and how to get one

What a Peppol ID is

A Peppol ID (technically a participant identifier) is a company’s unique address in the Peppol network. When someone sends you an e-invoice, their Access Point uses your Peppol ID to find in the network directory where to deliver the document. Without it nobody in the network “sees” you and nobody can deliver an invoice to you.

What it looks like in Slovakia

Every identifier has two parts: a scheme and a value, separated by a colon. Slovak entities use the scheme 0245 (SK:DIC) and their DIČ (tax ID) as the value:

• Correct: 0245:2121358349 (scheme 0245 and only the digits of the DIČ).
• Incorrect: 0245:SK2121358349. The “SK” prefix does not belong in the value and delivery fails.

Beware of confusion: the Peppol ID contains the DIČ, not the IČO (company registration number) or the IČ DPH (VAT ID). For VAT payers the number after “SK” in the IČ DPH is identical to the DIČ. But only those digits go into the identifier.

How you obtain your Peppol ID

You do not create a Peppol ID by hand. It comes into being when you choose a certified provider (a “digital postman”) and that provider registers you in the central Slovak network directory (the SMP, explained in the article What Peppol is). The procedure:

1. You choose a provider on the Financial Administration portal; you log in via slovensko.sk (eID) or with the identifier and password for the FS portal. On behalf of a legal entity, a person with an authorisation to represent it on the FS portal acts.
2. The provider registers you in the network under the identifier 0245:your-DIČ.
3. From that moment anyone can deliver an e-invoice to you. You do not have to announce your Peppol ID to anyone in particular; the other party derives it from your DIČ (for VAT payers these are the digits of the IČ DPH).

With us this whole step is free of any connection fee and we register the company automatically after the selection. If your DIČ already has a record in the SMP with another provider, selecting Verteco does not move it automatically (the Financial Administration does not inform the original provider): ask them for a migration code and enter it in the portal, or leave receiving with them and only send through us. The details of sending are in the guide how to send an e-invoice.

How you check a Peppol ID

Whether a company (yours or your business partner’s) is in the network and which documents it receives you can find out for free in our check tool (the IČ DPH is enough). It makes a real query into the production network (SML/SMP), not into a static list, so the result is the current state at that moment.

Why it matters from 2027

From 1 January 2027 VAT payers must issue domestic B2B invoices electronically via Peppol, and every Slovak taxable person must be able to receive them (limited companies as well as sole traders, including non-VAT payers; § 85o and § 71(5) of the VAT act). In practice this means having a valid Peppol ID, otherwise your suppliers will not be able to deliver documents to you. We discuss the context and the dates in the article e-invoicing in Slovakia from 1 January 2027.

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