French e-invoicing: is your software accredited or connected?

Yes. The reform applies to businesses subject to VAT established in France, and the exemption does not remove that status: it only spares you from charging the tax. You must be able to receive electronic invoices since 1 September 2026 and issue those of your business customers through an accredited platform from 1 September 2027. Your sales to consumers do not give rise to an electronic invoice, but to an e-reporting from 2027.

For reception, nothing waits for 2027: pick an accredited platform, several are free (Abby, Indy, Tiime and Dougs announce a plan without subscription), sign up with the legal representative’s account, and your SIREN will have an address in the directory. For issuing, you have until 1 September 2027 to move your quotes and invoices to a tool that produces the electronic format. An Excel file or a PDF sent by e-mail will no longer be a valid invoice between businesses.

The accredited platform is registered by the DGFiP: it carries the invoices and the data to the administration, and it appears in the official list. The compatible solution is a tool that prepares invoices in the right format and hands them to a partner accredited platform; it is not registered but may carry an official label. EBP, Evoliz, Henrri, Tolteck, Obat or Batappli are in that case. Both setups comply; what matters is knowing which accredited platform sits behind.

Yes, several platforms of the official list announce a free plan, generally for reception and a limited volume of issuing: Abby, Indy, Tiime, Dougs (free invoicing), Macompta.fr, and more technical players such as B2BRouter or Super PDP. The list on this page gathers them. Read carefully what is included: issuing beyond a number of invoices, archiving or accounting are often paid.

Yes, for reception, mandatory since 1 September 2026. Without a designated platform, your business has no active address in the directory, and your suppliers, including the large companies already required to issue, cannot send you their invoices through the official circuit. The 2026 tolerance protects businesses engaged in an effort, not those that have done nothing.

No, if the publisher names the accredited platform it uses and that name is on the official list: that is the case of Evoliz (Chaintrust), Obat (Iopole), Batappli (Cecurity) or EBP (Shine). Yes, if nobody can tell you which one. Ask in writing, check the name in the checker, and keep the answer.

Yes. The directory lets you declare one platform for reception and another for issuing, and the supplier and the customer may be on different platforms: they are required to interoperate. It is convenient when your quoting software issues through a partner and you prefer to receive on a free platform.

In 2026, nothing: the government announced that no penalty would be applied to businesses in real difficulty and engaged in an effort. Afterwards, the law provides €50 per invoice not issued in the electronic format (capped at €15,000 a year), a formal notice then €500 and €1,000 per three-month period for reception outside a platform, and €500 per e-reporting failure. The most concrete risk remains commercial: customers who can no longer pay you on a non-compliant invoice.

It is the central register, kept by the administration, that gives for each business subject to the reform its accredited platform and its invoicing addresses. Your platform registers you there when you activate the service; most then show your address in the settings. The simplest test: ask a supplier already equipped to send you an invoice through the official circuit.

That is my job. An in-house tool does not need to become an accredited platform: it must produce invoices in one of the expected formats (Factur-X, UBL or CII) and hand them to an accredited platform through its API, which handles the transmission, the directory and the e-reporting. I start with an audit of what your tool does, then I plug in the platform best suited to your volume, and I automate the sending and the status tracking. Describe your case, I answer within 24 hours.

No. Chorus Pro is the portal for invoices sent to the French State, local authorities and public bodies, and it stays so. For your private customers, you need an accredited platform or a tool connected to one. Both channels coexist.

Because impots.gouv.fr has shown a maintenance page since 21 October 2026, following the PHP vulnerability fixed that day (see my PHP vulnerability checker). The list on this page is the one the DGFiP updated on 13 October, read on 23 October in the copy of 16 October kept by the Internet Archive. As soon as the site is back, I re-read the list and re-date this page.

It looks for the name you type in the official list of accredited platforms (142 registered and 14 pending files as of 13 October 2026) and in my survey of 24 common tools, whose e-invoicing page I read on 23 October 2026. It connects to nothing, keeps nothing and does not send what you type. It does not see your subscription plan, the real state of your connection or your directory registration: only your account, or the publisher, can tell.