Electronic invoicing: get ready without disrupting your management workflow.

Every business established in France and subject to French VAT, including businesses under the small-business VAT exemption scheme, must be able to receive electronic invoices from 1 September 2026. Large and mid-sized companies must also issue electronically and perform e-reporting from that date; SMEs and microbusinesses from 1 September 2027.

No, not under the new regulated workflow. The invoice must contain structured data and travel through an approved platform, which performs the required checks and returns the expected statuses. Factur-X combines a readable PDF with consistent XML; an ordinary PDF attached to an email provides neither this flow nor its monitoring.

Tempolia is the management and invoicing solution connected to the approved platform selected by the customer. Tempolia prepares and checks the invoice, exchanges the available data and documents, and displays statuses or rejections; the PA uses the directory, handles regulated delivery and sends the required information to the authorities.

Tempolia gives you the freedom to work with all the main PAs in France. Its technical foundation supports easy connections to any PA through Factur-X Extended, CII, UBL and AFNOR flows. A PA can be connected when its documentation and technical interface are available.

Yes. Approved platforms are designed to interoperate: your PA consults the directory and routes the invoice to the platform and receiving address declared by the customer. Company identifiers and addressing must therefore be reliable, after which submissions, statuses and any rejections are tested across the real workflow.

A rejected invoice did not pass a technical or functional platform check and must be corrected before it is submitted again. A refused invoice received a final decision from the recipient, while a temporary disagreement may use a dispute status. Tempolia retains the returned status and reason to guide processing.

Transactions outside domestic B2B e-invoicing feed the e-reporting sent to the PA. For services subject to VAT on collection, the required payment data is linked to the invoice and payment; transaction types, periods, tax and cancellation cases should be tested using the company’s real activity.

Chorus Pro remains the public-sector portal. For engineering firms and other public-sector suppliers, Tempolia generates a Factur-X file using the specific profile expected by Chorus Pro and retains the order, contract or service references required for submission. A trial checks the file, addressing and portal responses before launch.

The PA designated for reception receives supplier invoices, which are then processed in the accounting or purchasing system selected by the organisation. Tempolia remains the system of record for customer invoices, payments and business data; scoping therefore defines owners, interfaces and the information that must return to each system.

The workflow is validated with the PA using real invoices: directory checks, submission, statuses, rejections, refusals, payments and recovery after an error. B2B, B2C, international or public-sector variants are covered when relevant to the business. Responsibilities, response times and corrections are then explained before users access the flow.