Production and testing

The Peppol network comprises two separate infrastructures: one for production, and one for testing. Service providers are supposed to only publish production data on the production network, and use the test network for testing.

ion-SMP facilitates this by having two instances of the SMP: https://production.ion-smp.net for production, and https://test.ion-smp.net for testing.

The former publishes recipients in the SML, whereas the latter publishes recipients in the T-SML. When using testing certificates in the production system, or vice versa, the web interface will show a warning message.

Accounts and passwords are automatically synchronized between the two instances, and therefore, you can only configure account details on production.ion-smp.net. There is one exception: API tokens must be generated separately on test.ion-smp.net.

When using the web interface, you can recognize the testing environment by the background color, which is orange instead of white.