Setting up the Continia Delivery Network

• 23/01/2025
• 9 minutes to read

Before you can start using the Continia Delivery Network, you must be onboarded by Continia. Currently, you can onboard to the Peppol eDelivery Network and/or to the NemHandel network (only for Danish organizations), as described below.

To onboard

To connect with the NemHandel and/or Peppol networks:

1. Open the assisted setup guide for onboarding by doing one of the following:

   • Choose the icon, enter Continia Delivery Network Onboarding, and then choose the related link.
   • Choose the icon, enter Continia Delivery Network Participations, and then choose the related link. In the action bar, select New and then Create new participation.

2. The Continia Delivery Network Onboarding assisted setup guide opens. Select Next.

3. Enable one or more networks, depending on your needs (e.g.: if you're only conducting business in Denmark, enable NemHandel). Then, select Next. N

4. Fill out all fields as required. Some of the fields may be prefilled based on your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central company details, but you can enter new details if necessary.
   

   Field	Description
   Identifier Type ID	The type of identifier. If you don't know the company's identifier, search for it in the NemHandelsregistret (only for NemHandel) or in the Peppol Directory under Participant Identifier Schemes (only for Peppol). For more information, see Identifier types.
   Identifier Value	The value of the identifier. This is the name under which the company is registered, and how others can find it on the Peppol network. E.g.: DK77777777.
   Company Name	The name of the company. E.g.: CRONUS UK Ltd.
   VAT Registration No.	The local registration code that identifies the company. E.g.: VAT, DK:CVR, NO:ORG, SE:ORG, etc.
   Address	The address of the company.
   Post Code	The postal code of the company.
   Country/Region Code	The code of the country or region where the company is based. E.g.: GB.
   Your Name	The name of the person responsible for setting up the Continia Delivery Network for the company, such as a partner or consultant.
   Contact Name	The name of the point of contact at the company.
   Contact Phone No.	The phone number of the point of contact at the company.
   Contact Email	The email address of the point of contact at the company. Note that if the domain of this email address doesn’t match the Company Name, additional questions are asked to verify the connection between the two. E.g.: Entering CRONUS UK Ltd. under Company Name and user@contoso.com under Contact Email triggers this check.

5. If you want other people and organizations to be able to find you and see that you're part of the network, enable the Publish in Registry toggle.

6. Under Please select the profiles you want to be registered with, add your preferred profile(s). A profile is a type of document that you want to be able to send and/or receive. You can configure multiple profiles, either individually or in groups.

   Note

   In the Profile Direction column, you can choose the direction of each profile, that is, whether you want to be able to send and/or receive this particular type of document. If you select Inbound or Both, you must enter a Document Capture category in the Document Category column, so the Continia Delivery Network knows what category to import incoming documents into for this profile.

7. Select Next > Finish to join the Continia Delivery Network.

Your onboarding registration has to be approved manually by Continia before you've officially joined the network. This can take 2-4 days and may require you to provide more information in order for Continia to be able to validate your details.

The list of participations

When you've completed the Continia Delivery Network Onboarding assisted setup guide as described above, you've created what's known as a participation. A participation is basically any organization or legal entity that has joined – or requested to join – the Continia Delivery Network and is now registered as such. The participation is also what enables that organization or legal entity to send and receive documents using the Continia Delivery Network.

Two of the fields you fill out when completing the assisted setup guide for onboarding are used to uniquely identify each participation: Identifier Type ID and Identifier Value. This means that although you can create multiple participations (for example one for each legal entity within an organization), you can't create two or more participations with the same pair of identifier ID and identifier value. The identifier ID and its corresponding value are unique to the participation they were used to create, and they can therefore only be used once.

All the participations you create are added to the list of participations. To open this list, choose the icon, enter Continia Delivery Network Participations, and then choose the related link. The list provides an overview of your participations and their respective statuses:

• Pending approval - all newly created participations get this status immediately upon creation and keep it until they've been manually approved by Continia.
• Connected - this is the status given to all participations that have been approved by Continia. With this status, you can send/receive documents via the Continia Delivery Network.
• Rejected - participations that Continia has been unable to approve are marked as rejected, typically accompanied by a note on the cause of the rejection.

Submitting incorrect information under the Identifier Type ID and Identifier Value fields results in the immediate rejection of the onboarding request. However, if your participation is rejected you can edit and resubmit it directly from the participations list.

Identifier types

NemHandel

These are the identifier types available in the NemHandel network.

Peppol

These are some of the most common identifier types in the Peppol network.

See also

Finding a Reseller of Continia Document Capture