Yes, InvoiceNow can genuinely cost you nothing. Thirteen accredited providers offer a free-of-charge package to GST-registered businesses, with no conditions attached. Here is the official list, what free actually covers, and the expiry detail three of them carry that most write-ups skip.
The InvoiceNow network itself carries no per-invoice fee to you. On top of that, IRAS and IMDA publish a list of accredited providers offering a complete free package to GST-registered businesses. IRAS's own wording is that the full solution package is free of charge, with no conditions attached.
What is not free is the work around it: cleaning up your customer records, mapping your invoice data, and testing that a transmission actually lands. That is where the time goes, and no package covers it.
Reproduced from IRAS's list of free-of-charge InvoiceNow packages for GST-registered businesses, dated 10 September 2026.
The GST InvoiceNow Requirement does not apply to you, so none of this is compulsory. You can still join the network voluntarily, and increasingly your larger customers will ask you to — being able to receive a Peppol invoice is becoming a condition of supply in some tenders.
Work out your date first. A business whose deadline is 1 April 2031 is in a very different position from one facing 1 April 2028, and the answer changes what you should pay for.
Work out your InvoiceNow date →
Reproduced from IRAS's list of free-of-charge InvoiceNow packages for GST-registered businesses dated 10 September 2026, and IMDA's accredited provider list dated 9 September 2026. Both lists change — check the current version before committing. Independent guide, not advice, and not affiliated with IRAS or IMDA.