You must meet a number of conditions to collect your unpaid invoices via the Unpaid platform. This is because the Unpaid procedure is based on the IOS legislation, which lays down a number of legal conditions, as follows:
- Both you and your debtor must have a valid company number, which means that only B2B invoices are eligible. Moreover, the debtor can only have a Belgian company number. The system will ask you to provide the company numbers. At that moment, we will check whether everything is in order.
- The debtor has not disputed the invoice. As soon as the debtor disputes your invoice, the invoice is considered to be in dispute.
- The debtor is not bankrupt or in a judicial organisation. In other words, the debtor does not enjoy any protection against creditors.
- The invoice may not be time-barred. Are you aware of the limitation periods? No problem, the system automatically checks that, too. So, it is perfectly possible to submit older unpaid invoices for collection.
The size of the amount invoiced is irrelevant. We regularly receive files for which the amount claimed is less than €50. After all, you have earned it.