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Editorial policy

How we research, write, label and correct our coverage of UK e-invoicing.

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What we cover and why

einvoices.uk covers one subject: the UK's move to e-invoicing, including the April 2029 VAT e-invoicing mandate, HMRC and government announcements, the Peppol network and the practical steps businesses, finance teams and accountants need to take. We choose topics by asking what our readers need to know or do next, not by what might attract traffic.

How we research

We work from primary sources wherever they exist. In order of preference:

  1. Official UK sources: GOV.UK publications, HMRC guidance and manuals, consultation documents and responses, Budget documents, and legislation on legislation.gov.uk.
  2. Standards and network bodies: OpenPeppol, the Peppol specifications, and the European and international standards that e-invoices are built on.
  3. Statements on the record: parliamentary debates and answers, and published statements from regulators and professional bodies.
  4. Secondary reporting: trade press and other publications, used only for context or to point us to a primary source, and always attributed.

Every article lists the sources it relies on, and news stories link to the original source. We do not publish claims we cannot trace to a source.

Confirmed, reported and unknown

Because the mandate is still being designed, we keep three kinds of statement apart:

  • Confirmed: the government or HMRC has said it in an official publication. We say who said it and link to it.
  • Reported or expected: something announced as a plan, proposed in a consultation, or reported elsewhere but not yet confirmed. We label it as such.
  • Not yet known: details the government has not published, such as thresholds or exemptions that await the implementation roadmap. We say plainly that they are unknown rather than guessing.

We never invent facts, figures, dates, quotes or people.

How we use AI

We use AI tools (currently Anthropic's Claude models) to help research, draft and edit our articles. Articles are researched and written with AI assistance from primary sources, and every article says so at the end. Each article lists the sources it relies on so that you can check them yourself, and the same rules on sourcing and on separating confirmed facts from open questions apply however a sentence was written. Articles written by our editor carry their name. Articles produced by our automated daily process carry the "einvoices.uk editorial team" byline until a person has reviewed and edited them.

Automated daily articles

Every morning an automated job checks the GOV.UK search service for new publications about e-invoicing, electronic invoicing or Peppol. New items appear straight away, unedited, in our GOV.UK feed. For a small number of new items each day (at most three), the job also produces a short news article:

  1. It fetches the full text of the official GOV.UK page.
  2. An AI model drafts an article using only that page, under written instructions: never invent facts, dates, figures or quotes; separate what is confirmed from what is unknown; and decline items that only mention invoicing in passing.
  3. The draft goes through automated checks before it is published: required fields, allowed topics, title and description lengths, internal links that point to real pages, and our house style. If the site does not build, nothing is published.

These articles are labelled at the end as drafted with AI assistance from the official sources listed and checked automatically for format. The automated checks do not verify the facts; a person does not review these articles before they are published. Always read the linked official source before acting, and please tell us if something is wrong.

Dates and updates

Each article shows when it was published. We show an updated date only when we have made a material change, such as new official information or a correction, never just to make a page look fresh.

Corrections

We correct errors promptly and say what changed. See our corrections policy and log.

Independence

We are not affiliated with HMRC, the Department for Business and Trade, OpenPeppol or any software vendor. We do not accept payment for coverage, and we do not publish sponsored content as editorial. If that ever changes, sponsored material will be clearly labelled. Nothing on this site is tax, legal or financial advice.

Who is responsible

The editor of einvoices.uk is Floris Lindenaar, editor, e-invoicing expert, who is responsible for what we publish, for this policy and for corrections. See all authors. Questions about this policy: hello@einvoices.uk.