All invoices and credit notes must be submitted electronically:

• Internet Supplier Portal [ISP] - submit invoices online
• Automated Invoice Processing [AIP] - PDF invoices by email
• File Based Intergration [FBI] - XML or PSV file

Please note that some suppliers have been given access to submit their invoices to a specific postal address.

For more information please visit Camden's new e-invoicing service web page.

All supplier invoices must contain the following information:

• Addressed to London Borough of Camden (not an individual)
• Camden’s purchase order number
• Purchase order item number (if available)
• Supplier's name and address
• The word 'invoice' or if a credit, credit note'
• Invoice number
• Invoice date
• Value and currency
• Description of goods and/or services provided - sufficient detail for the buyer to recognise
• Name and telephone number of your Camden buyer/contact
• Any further unique reference numbers or information that Camden provided
• Buyer / contact name
• Supplier’s VAT number (if registered)
• Net value of goods and services, the rate and amount of VAT (preferably detailed at line level)
• Total value of the invoice

View a sample invoice

Method of payment

The Council pays all bills by BACS and new suppliers must supply their bank details.

Bank account or other supplier detail changes should be made via Supplier Portal and letter headed paper attached.

If you don’t use supplier portal, then changes to your bank account or other supplier details please write to us on letter headed paper or email the purchase to pay address.

Please note that we will not act on changes of details notified on invoices.

Payment Terms and Conditions

It is our policy that, unless we are contractually committed to other terms, all valid invoices will become due for payment 30 days after receipt.

As noted, where contractual clauses are agreed which vary the terms of payment, these will be honoured. Our terms of trade  also include provision for late payment in accordance with the November 1998 Act of Parliament.

We reserve the right to withhold payment where the goods or services have not been provided in accordance with the contract. We expect our suppliers to pay any sums due to sub-contractors promptly and within a period not exceeding that set out above.

The Prompt Payment Code

We are an approved signatory of the Prompt Payment Code, a code of practice launched by the Department for Business Enterprise in 2008.