Peppol eInvoicing is mandatory for central-government receipt (B2G) and voluntary for B2B in New Zealand, with MBIE as the Peppol Authority. How AI-assisted finance tooling helps you adopt it.

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Peppol eInvoicing is the trans-Tasman standard New Zealand uses, with MBIE as the Peppol Authority. Knowing what is mandatory (central-government receipt) versus voluntary (B2B) helps you scope AI-assisted finance work.

Key points

  • Receiving eInvoices is mandatory for central-government agencies (B2G)
  • Procurement Rule 44 expands receive-capability from 1 January 2026 and a large-supplier send rule from 1 January 2027
  • B2B eInvoicing remains voluntary
  • AI-assisted finance tooling makes adoption and seven-year record-keeping easier

The detail

On the finance side, New Zealand uses Peppol eInvoicing (the trans-Tasman standard shared with Australia), and MBIE is New Zealand’s designated Peppol Authority. The status in 2026: receiving eInvoices is mandatory for central-government agencies (B2G) — they have had to be able to receive Peppol eInvoices since March 2022, and under Procurement Rule 44 agencies handling more than 2,000 domestic trade invoices a year must have receive-capability by 1 January 2026, with a large-supplier send requirement (suppliers over NZ$33 million revenue) from 1 January 2027. For ordinary business-to-business (B2B) trade, Peppol eInvoicing remains voluntary — there is no general B2B mandate. AI-assisted finance and accounting tooling makes it easier to adopt eInvoicing and to keep the seven-year records Inland Revenue expects.

Where this leaves your AI project

A model-agnostic platform like osFoundry helps you meet these obligations in practice — you can keep data in New Zealand (an Auckland region or local-first), control model choice via BYOK, and connect to your own systems. dgm can help you scope and implement with this in mind.

How dgm can help

dgm is an independent integration partner that helps New Zealand organisations put osFoundry to work — from choosing a worthwhile first use case through to the hands-on build and connecting it to the systems you already run. dgm is not affiliated with the company that makes osFoundry, and it has not yet completed any client integrations, so what is described here is the service dgm offers, not past results. If you want help scoping a realistic first project, dgm can work through it with you.

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