Setting up the Continia Delivery Network

Before you can start using the Continia Delivery Network (CDN), you must be onboarded by Continia. Currently, you can be onboarded to the Peppol eDelivery Network, the NemHandel network (only for Danish organizations), and the France PA network.

When you complete the Continia Delivery Network onboarding as described below, you get your company verified and create a participation. A participation is basically any organization or legal entity that has joined or requested to join the CDN – and is now registered as such. A participation is also what enables that organization or legal entity to send and receive documents using the CDN.

To onboard a company

By onboarding a company with Continia, that is, submitting it to a know your customer (KYC) process, you make it eligible to work with participations. A fully onboarded company with one or more participations can send and receive eDocuments via the Continia Delivery Network.

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

• Search () for and select Continia Company Onboarding Assisted Setup.
• Search () for and select Company Onboarding. On the action bar, click Start.

2. A browser tab opens. Enter your full name and email address, and select the country where you want to onboard companies. Then, click Continue.
3. Under Company search, enter your company name or identifier. For more information, see Identifier types. Then, select your company, make sure its details are correct, and click Continue.
4. Fill out and verify the details of the verified signatory. If needed, add or delete a signatory. Then, click Continue to submit the form.
5. Return to Business Central and click Finish.

Continia must approve your onboarding registration before you can officially join the network. The approval can take 1-2 days and involves the digital signature of the authorized signatory. The approval may also require you to provide more information for Continia, so Continia can validate your details.

To see the status of your request, search () for and select Company Onboarding.

To onboard a participation

To onboard a participation onto one or more document exchange networks:

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

   • Search () for and select Onboard to Continia Delivery Network.
   • Search () for and select Network Participations. On the action bar, click Create Participation.

2. The Onboard to Continia Delivery Network assisted setup opens. Click Next.

3. If your company has already started or completed the know your customer (KYC) process, click the three dots (…) to open the Company Onboarding dialog box, select your company, verify its details, and click Next. Otherwise, click Start and follow the process. For more information, see

   Note

   To submit a different company to the KYC process, click the three dots () to open the Company Onboarding dialog box, click the three dots () at the top, and select Start.

4. If more than one network is available, enable the desired network (e.g.: if you're only doing business in Denmark, enable NemHandel).

5. For each network enabled, make sure the identifier type and value are correct – these values can’t be changed when the participation is connected. For more information, see Identifier types.

6. If you don't want your company to be discoverable in a particular network, disable the related Publish in Registry setting. Then, click Next.

7. Select a business role according to your business needs. That is, if your company sells and/or buys goods and/or services.

8. Select one or more document flows according to your business needs. To see the profiles and document types included in each document flow, click the document flow name. To add different profiles, click Use Advanced Setup > Add Profile.

9. Click Finish.

The list of participations

When going through the onboarding process, you provide Continia with the values of two fields 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.

Viewing the list of participations

The participations you create are added to the list of participations. To open this list, search () for and select Network Participations. In this overview, you can see your participations and their respective registration 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 CDN.
• 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.

Managing the list of participations

As well as the ability to create a participation, the Network Participations page offers the following actions:

• Get pre-existing participations - gets a list of all participations that have been registered in the CDN, based on your client credentials. Note that this list doesn't contain participations that already existed in the company where this action is run or participations created in other companies in the same environment.
• Suspend - disables the participation functionality in both the local company and in the CDN. If the participation has yet to be approved and registered (i.e.: its registration status is Pending approval), it's completely deleted from both Business Central and the CDN. Any other registration status results in the participation being suspended.
• Delete - removes the participation record from the company without communicating the deletion to the CDN. If the participation had already been registered in the CDN (either demo or production), it remains intact there.

Identifier types

France PA

NemHandel

These are the identifier types available in the NemHandel network.

Peppol

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

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