Background Info

Communication Messages when there are no Issues with Invoice

Minimum Flow of Status Messages (Mandatory Messages)

From Invoice Receiver to the Billit Invoice Sender : no mandatory Message (only optional messages, Billit will not send the optional messages).
From Billit Invoice Sender to Invoice Receiver : 1 message : 212 Payment Received

Maximum Number of Positive Messages (Including Optional) that you can receive when sending sales invoices via Billit (positive scenario)

When you are sending sales invoices via Billit, you might receive the following messages from the receiver:

Communications Overview:

What	Format	PA Message Number
Request more info	PA Message	208
Deliver more info	Outside PA (e.g. email)
Confirm : info received, information gathering is complete	PA Message	209

Flow of possible PA Messages for more information :

When you are sending sales invoices via Billit, you might receive the following optional information from the receiver:

From Invoice Receiver to Invoice Sender : no mandatory Message
From Invoice Sender to Invoice Receiver : 1 message : 212 Payment Received (Mandatory)

When you are sending sales invoices via Billit, you might receive the following negative information from the receiver:

About the messages in case of issues:

PA Message Number	Coming From	What	Type of Status
501	PPF	The content and flow has been controlled by PPF, but is not accepted (Non Recevable)	Final
213	Service Providers	Rejected in platform (technical or business rejection)	Final
207	Receiver	In dispute : does not agree with a part or the total. This is an intermediate message, not a final status	Intermediary
210	Receiver	Refused by Receiver : the receiver rejects the complete invoice.	Final

About the statuses:

Mandatory / Optional :
- only a few of the 14 statuses are mandatory
- only 1 of the 4 mandatory statuses has to be initiated by the seller/supplier (payment received)
Message from:
- Indicating who is the initiator of the message
- Only one message has to be launched by the seller/supplier

Main functional statuses you might receive via Billit when sending invoices via Billit to the Customer:

Status	Description	M/O	Action Supplier?	Message from
200	Submitted with success (to Billit, to PPF)	Mandatory	No	Billit
201	Billit transmitted to the receiver	Optional	No	Billit
202	Service provider of receiver has received	Optional	No	Service provider receiver
203	Service provider of receiver has submitted to the receiver	Optional	No	Service provider receiver
204	Receipt confirmation by the receiver	Optional	No	Receiver
205	Receiver has approved	Optional	No	Receiver
206	Receiver has partially approved	Optional	No	Receiver
207	In dispute : does not agree with a part or the total	Optional	Yes	Receiver
208	Suspended : receiver requires more information	Optional	Yes	Receiver
212	Paid (supplier) : the supplier confirms that the payment is received (complete amount or partial amount)	Mandatory	Yes	Supplier
213	Rejected in platform (message coming from service providers)	Mandatory	yes	Service Provider

Other statuses:

Status	Description	Message From
250	Reception (technical acknowledgement before validation)	PPF, Service Provider Buyer
200	Validation ok (basic compliance : ready for further processing)	PPF (Gov)
280	Routing / Processing / Transmitted	PPF (Gov)
281	Delivered to the next step (Recipient can access it)	PPF (Gov)
500	Rejection = blocking error. Typically invalid or missing data, incorrect identifiers. Can happen after 250 and 200.	PPF (Gov)