Look up a Peppol participant's capabilities via SMP (Service Metadata Publisher) before sending an invoice
domain: peppol.org · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Construct the SMP lookup URL using the Peppol participant ID: hash the participant ID (in the form icd:identifier) with MD5 uppercase, then build the hostname as B-{md5hash}.{ica-scheme}.{sml-zone} (e.g., for the European Peppol SML the zone is edelivery.eu.peppol.eu or iso6523-actorid-upis.acc.edelivery.tech for test)
Send a GET request to https://{constructed-hostname}/iso6523-actorid-upis::{icd}::{identifier}/services to retrieve the ServiceGroup document listing all document types the participant can receive
For each document type listed in the ServiceGroup, follow the href link to the ServiceMetadata endpoint to retrieve the endpoint URL, transport profile (AS4), and the public certificate of the recipient's access point
Verify that the recipient has a ServiceMetadata entry for the specific document type and process you intend to send (e.g., urn:fdc:peppol.eu:2017:poacc:billing:01:1.0 for BIS Billing 3.0); absence of an entry means the recipient cannot receive that document type via Peppol
Extract the endpoint URL from the ServiceEndpoint element and the transport profile from the TransportProfile element; provide these to your access point when initiating the AS4 send
Cache the SMP lookup result with a short TTL (hours, not days) to avoid stale endpoint data; SMP records can change when participants switch access point providers
Known gotchas
The SML DNS zone differs between the Peppol test network (acc.edelivery.tech) and the production network (edelivery.eu.peppol.eu or country-specific SMLs); using the wrong zone in the hostname construction returns no DNS record or resolves to the wrong participant's SMP
SMP records are maintained by access point providers and may be absent even for participants that are Peppol-registered; an empty ServiceGroup does not always mean the participant is not on the network — it may mean their SMP record is misconfigured
The public certificate embedded in the ServiceMetadata endpoint must be validated against the Peppol PKI trust anchor before use; accepting arbitrary certificates from SMP responses without PKI validation exposes the sender to man-in-the-middle substitution
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