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Invoicing and payment

What triggers an invoice, what delays it, and what mandatory electronic invoicing changes.

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Since September 1, 2026, every business liable for VAT in France must be able to receive an electronic invoice. The obligation to issue follows on September 1, 2027 for smaller businesses. This isn't a recommendation, and it is your supplier who decides when they send you theirs.

Choosing an approved platform is an off-the-shelf purchase, not a project: the approval and its upkeep are the product. What takes work is everything around it — counterparty master data, the approval circuit, and the link with whatever triggers the invoice.

This section also covers recharging between companies in a group, a process almost no software covers because the difficulty there is not the invoice but the allocation key.

Invoicing and payment5 min readInvoice the day the work is done, not three weeks laterBetween the end of a job and the invoice going out, two or three weeks often pass. How to measure that delay, where the days are lost, and how to bring it down to two.ByJérôme KnopsRead the article
Invoicing and payment5 min readFrench e-invoicing: what actually changes for a smaller businessReceiving has been mandatory in France since September 1, 2026, issuing follows in 2027. What it means, and the three jobs to do in order.ByJérôme KnopsRead the article
Invoicing and payment5 min readRecharging between companies in a group, without losing your month to itA shared cost, an allocation key, and someone re-typing all of it by hand every month. How to automate intragroup recharging, and what must stay under human control.ByJérôme KnopsRead the article

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