Every document stored for one of your companies counts towards your volume, whether you sent it or received it. An invoice you send and an invoice that arrives for you are each one document.
On top of that:
- Each email delivery counts. If a document goes to three email recipients as well as over Peppol, that is the Peppol transmission plus three email deliveries.
- Each e-reporting submission counts. A French B2C or cross-border report is one document when it is filed.
- French lifecycle statuses count when they carry a decision. Status codes 204 to 212 and 214 belong to the processing phase, where a buyer or a seller decided something about the invoice: taken in charge, approved, disputed, refused, paid, collected. Those count, in both directions.
The following never count:
- Message level responses. They are transport receipts, not business documents, so you can acknowledge everything you receive for free.
- French transmission statuses. Status codes 200, 201, 202, 203, 213 and 501 record that a file was submitted, issued, received, made available or technically rejected. Most of them are generated by a platform without anyone deciding anything, so they are the French counterpart of a message level response.
- XML produced by the generate endpoint. Generating a document is not sending it, so it is not billed. You are billed when you send it.
The rule behind all of this is that you pay for documents and for the business answers to them, not for the messages that platforms and the network exchange to move them around.