Introducing Tickstar SMP 2.0

Introducing Tickstar SMP 2.0

Tickstar is the largest Peppol infrastructure provider in the world, with the SMP services used by approximately 100 organizations worldwide, such as the governments of Singapore and the Netherlands. With partnerships all over the world, we are constantly working to make sure we provide better value and features with greater functionality.

This is why we are proud to announce our Peppol SMP 2.0, which comes with greater usability and autonomy for Peppol network participants, whether they be large private sector businesses, ERP vendors, service providers, or public sector organizations. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some of the new features our SMP 2.0 provides, with a quick explainer at the end.

On October 4th, at 21:00-22:00 CEST, 2021 Tickstar SMP will be updated 

SMP Lookups will continue to function during the maintenance window but you will not be able login or use the SMP API.

Our main goal for this update is to offer new features for all SMP users; admins, API users, as well as regular web users. These updates will make your day-to-day work managing your Peppol receivers a lot easier. Of course we have fixed bugs, thus improving usability and stability of the service.

Here are some of the things we added:

The following features will not be available by default to all Admin users, but to System Owners, a role that only Tickstar can assign to one of your users.

The features mentioned above provide more functionality and autonomy for you as user. 

The last two things we want to highlight, while not new to this update, are also worth mentioning.

For participants, the option to Publish in the Peppol directory can be turned off. Usually, when you add Peppol receivers to your Participants section, its information is published in the Peppol Directory, which is obviously not desirable if you want to create a temporary participant for testing purposes.

Tickstar’s SMP API can be integrated into your software, meaning you can get a seamless experience when creating and updating your Peppol receivers.

For more details on the previous major update in March 2020, please visit SMP and SMP API update.

An SMP (Service Metadata Publisher) is one of the core components of the Peppol eDelivery Network. Through an SMP, Peppol participants publish their participant IDs, document type receiving capabilities, and which Peppol Access Point is used to receive business documents, such as e-invoices or e-orders.

No matter which SMP is used, each new participant will add a record to the SML (service metadata locator) and to Peppol Directory in which you can find the participant’s metadata such as name. It is however only through an SMP you can manage participants, such as create and change them.

The SML, Service Metadata Locator, is another key component of Peppol eDelivery Network. In order to send a business document, the Access Point (corner 2) of a sending participant (corner 1) retrieves information from the SML about the location of the receiving participant’s (corner 4) SMP, which stores its receiving capability information. Once the URL to Corner 3 Access Point is fetched by the Corner 2 Access Point from the SMP response, the actual Peppol transaction is initiated.

The SML is centralized and allows for the use of dynamic discovery. This is achieved by the SML, SMP, and DNS working together to allow a Peppol Access Point to find up-to-date information about a receiving party sending a business document on the Peppol network. Dynamic discovery is one factor that makes the Peppol network so effective; its core components allow for automation, scalability, and the secure retrieval of accurate information.

No matter which country your business is from, in a matter of days we can set you up to transact with any public or private sector organization in the world, or become a Peppol Access Point provider. Our fast-tracked accreditation process brings costs down and gets rid of all the hassle that comes with certifications, agreements, development, hosting, and maintenance.

Tickstar’s SMP 2.0 and API is the next iteration of our already user-friendly solution, demonstrating our commitment to bringing the highest quality service to our customers.

With Tickstar you get:

Get in touch to get started with the Peppol standard today! Our friendly service team can answer any of your questions, give you a detailed pricing breakdown, or run a demo, showing you why Peppol is the network of choice for the EU, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand