Verify invoice acceptance or cancellation status
Find the correct official authority or network route for UUID, IRN, CUFE, access key, UPO, receipt or participant status.
The correct sequence
Electronic invoicing problems are often caused by performing the right check at the wrong layer. Follow the sequence below and keep evidence from each stage.
- 1Identify the authority reference
Identify the exact jurisdiction, document type, profile and intended recipient before changing the file.
- 2Check local syntax or checksum
Run local, deterministic checks first so basic mapping and arithmetic defects are removed quickly.
- 3Open the official verification service
Apply the current official technical artefacts or provider sandbox and capture the full machine response.
- 4Record the official result and timestamp
Confirm delivery, clearance or recipient status through the authoritative system and preserve the evidence.
Inputs to collect before starting
- The country, transaction type and legal entities involved
- The original structured invoice and its unmodified response
- The intended schema/profile version and delivery channel
- Sender, receiver and routing identifiers
- Authority or provider timestamps, correlation IDs and status codes
Quality controls
The XML or JSON remains the authoritative structured document; a PDF rendering is a readable representation.
Record schema, Schematron, code-list, SDK and API versions used for the result.
Store receipts, UUIDs, status transitions, rejection details and retried submissions in an auditable timeline.
Local checks reduce avoidable errors but cannot prove delivery, clearance or recipient acceptance.
Completion evidence
A completed workflow should produce a small evidence pack rather than only a green screen.
- Document hash and immutable source copy
- Detected profile and validation versions
- Machine-readable validation report
- Human-readable review copy
- Official or network response when applicable
- Correction and resubmission history
Tools for this task
Invoice reference and UUID checker
Check the structure and, where implemented, checksum of common fiscal invoice references such as UUID, IRN, CUFE and access keys.
Official invoice verification navigator
Identify the correct authority, reference type and official verification route for a country without pretending to perform an authority lookup.
Peppol participant directory lookup
Validate participant syntax and continue to the official Peppol Directory to check registration and document capabilities.
Authority and network response decoder
Extract status, identifiers, error codes and messages from common JSON or XML invoice responses.