{"id":2142652,"date":"2026-10-08T23:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/2026\/10\/08\/foreign-company-france-electronic-invoicing-receive-issue-penalties-proof-abroad\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T23:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:55:51","slug":"foreign-company-france-electronic-invoicing-receive-issue-penalties-proof-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/10\/08\/foreign-company-france-electronic-invoicing-receive-issue-penalties-proof-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Your French Company Receives Electronic Invoices Since 1 September 2026 While You Live Abroad: Platforms, New Mentions, Fines and Court Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 1 September 2026, every company established in France must be able to receive electronic invoices<\/strong>, even if its owner lives in London, New York, Dubai or Singapore. If your French soci\u00e9t\u00e9 par actions simplifi\u00e9e<\/em> (SAS, the flexible joint-stock company most foreign founders choose) or soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 responsabilit\u00e9 limit\u00e9e<\/em> (SARL, the limited-liability company) is small, you have until 1 September 2027 to issue<\/strong> electronic invoices, but the obligation to receive them already applies to you today. A founder who discovers this reform only when a supplier asks for the company’s receiving platform, or when the tax office (Direction g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Finances publiques<\/em>, DGFIP, the French tax administration) asks for transaction data, is already late. This guide explains, entirely from the founder-abroad point of view, what the calendar requires, how to designate a platform without travelling to France, which new invoice mentions to add, which fines apply when an invoice is wrong, late or missing, and how French courts treat unpaid invoices owed by or to a foreign company.<\/p>\n

French acronyms appear everywhere below, so here is the short glossary you need: SIREN<\/em> (the nine-digit company identification number), Kbis<\/em> (the official company registration certificate issued by the greffe<\/em>, the clerk’s office of the commercial court), TVA<\/em> (the French VAT), ETI<\/em> (entreprise de taille interm\u00e9diaire<\/em>, a mid-sized company with 250 to 4,999 employees), PME<\/em> (petite et moyenne entreprise<\/em>, a small or medium-sized company), BODACC<\/em> (the official bulletin publishing company registrations and insolvency openings), URSSAF<\/em> (the social-security collection agency), and e-reporting<\/em> (the periodic transmission of transaction data to the tax administration for operations outside electronic invoicing, such as sales to consumers or cross-border sales).<\/p>\n

The reform covers all transactions between VAT-registered businesses established in France. The official business portal states that L’\u00e9mission et la r\u00e9ception des factures \u00e9lectroniques concerneront l’ensemble des op\u00e9rations r\u00e9alis\u00e9es entre les entreprises assujetties \u00e0 la TVA, \u00e9tablies en France<\/em>, and gives the calendar verified for this article: L’obligation de recevoir des factures \u00e9lectroniques s’appliquera pour l’ensemble des entreprises d\u00e8s le 1er septembre 2026<\/em>, while L’obligation d’\u00e9mettre des factures \u00e9lectroniques prendra effet : le 1er septembre 2026 pour les grandes entreprises et les entreprises de taille interm\u00e9diaire (ETI) ; le 1er septembre 2027 pour les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) et les micro-entreprises<\/em>. If you are reading this in October 2026 from abroad and your French company has not yet designated its receiving solution, the first section tells you what to do this week; the second section tells you what an incorrect or unpaid invoice costs, with the exact statutory fines and three recent court decisions, two of them involving foreign companies. For the broader picture of running the company from abroad, see the companion guide on choosing between a SAS, a SARL, a branch or a subsidiary when you live outside France<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I. Your French company must receive electronic invoices since 1 September 2026: what calendar and what setup from abroad?<\/h2>\n

A. Which deadlines apply to your company: receive now, issue in 2026 or 2027, report everything?<\/h3>\n

The starting point is the general invoicing duty in the French Tax Code (Code g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des imp\u00f4ts<\/em>, CGI). Article 289 provides that Tout assujetti est tenu de s’assurer qu’une facture est \u00e9mise, par lui-m\u00eame, ou en son nom et pour son compte, par son client ou par un tiers<\/a>, for supplies of goods and services to another taxable person. The electronic-invoicing reform does not remove that duty; it changes the authorised channel. From the dates above, an invoice that must legally exist must also travel through the state’s system: directly through an approved platform (plateforme agr\u00e9\u00e9e<\/em>, a private invoicing platform registered by the tax administration), or through compatible software connected to one. The administration’s guidance is explicit: \u00c0 partir du 1er septembre 2026, les entreprises devront transmettre leurs factures par l’interm\u00e9diaire d’une plateforme agr\u00e9\u00e9e par l’\u00c9tat, directement ou au travers d’une solution compatible. Chaque entreprise doit d\u00e9signer sa plateforme pour \u00e9mettre et recevoir ses factures \u00e9lectroniques ou d\u00e9clarer ses donn\u00e9es.<\/em><\/p>\n

Three practical consequences follow for a founder living abroad. First, the reception duty is immediate and universal: since 1 September 2026, your French company must be reachable in the national directory (annuaire<\/em>, the central directory listing each company’s chosen platform) so that any French supplier can send it a compliant electronic invoice. A company that never designated a platform can find its suppliers’ invoices rejected or delayed, which in turn delays the deduction of input VAT and poisons commercial relations. Second, the issuing duty depends on size: if your French structure is a large company or an ETI<\/em>, it must already issue electronically; if it is a PME<\/em> or micro-enterprise, which covers almost every newly created subsidiary of a foreign group, issuing becomes mandatory on 1 September 2027, but preparing now avoids a last-minute migration of your accounting software. Third, transactions outside electronic invoicing do not escape reporting: Ce calendrier sera \u00e9galement utilis\u00e9 pour la mise en place de la transmission \u00e0 l’administration des donn\u00e9es de transaction de l’entreprise (e-reporting)<\/em>. Sales to private consumers, cross-border intra-Community supplies and exports must be reported electronically to the DGFIP on the same timetable, so a foreign-owned webshop selling from France to French consumers and abroad must organise both flows.<\/p>\n

The scope follows the territoriality of French VAT. Only operations between taxable persons established in France fall inside electronic invoicing: domestic business-to-business supplies, related advance payments (acomptes<\/em>), and public auction sales of second-hand goods, artworks, collectibles and antiques. When the supplier is established outside France, a different mechanism applies instead: article 283 of the Tax Code provides that lorsqu’une livraison de biens ou une prestation de services mentionn\u00e9e \u00e0 l’article 259 A est effectu\u00e9e par un assujetti \u00e9tabli hors de France, la taxe est acquitt\u00e9e par l’acqu\u00e9reur, le destinataire ou le preneur qui agit en tant qu’assujetti et qui dispose d’un num\u00e9ro d’identification \u00e0 la taxe sur la valeur ajout\u00e9e en France<\/a>. This is the reverse charge (autoliquidation<\/em>): your French company self-assesses the VAT on purchases from its foreign parent or foreign suppliers. Invoices from abroad therefore stay outside the French electronic-invoicing circuit but inside e-reporting and inside the reverse-charge declaration. Many foreign groups get this wrong by asking their foreign parent to send a “French-format” invoice through the platform; the correct treatment is a foreign invoice plus reverse charge by the French recipient, declared on the French VAT return.<\/p>\n

The administration’s stated objectives confirm that controls will follow: lutter plus efficacement contre la fraude \u00e0 la TVA ; am\u00e9liorer la comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 des entreprises gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la d\u00e9mat\u00e9rialisation ; simplifier, \u00e0 terme, les obligations d\u00e9claratives de TVA gr\u00e2ce au pr\u00e9-remplissage des d\u00e9clarations ; am\u00e9liorer la connaissance de l’activit\u00e9 des entreprises en temps r\u00e9el<\/em>. Pre-filled VAT returns fed by real-time invoice data mean that discrepancies between issued invoices, received invoices and declared turnover will be detected automatically. A founder abroad who keeps French accounting on spreadsheets and sends PDF invoices by email should treat October 2026 as the moment to migrate, not September 2027.<\/p>\n

B. How do you choose a platform, update your mentions and keep proof without boarding a plane?<\/h3>\n

Everything can be done remotely if the company’s legal representation is in order. The person who designates the platform is the company’s legal representative (pr\u00e9sident<\/em> of a SAS, g\u00e9rant<\/em> of a SARL) or a person holding a written delegation. If you, the foreign founder, are yourself the pr\u00e9sident<\/em>, you sign the platform contract electronically with a qualified electronic signature; your physical location is irrelevant. If the pr\u00e9sident<\/em> is a French resident manager, have the shareholders’ decision or a delegation of powers recorded in writing before the designation, and keep it with the company’s registers. Platforms verify identity against the SIREN<\/em> and the Kbis<\/em>, both obtainable online, and enrolment requires the company’s VAT identification number and the professional email address that will receive invoices. The national directory then publishes the routing choice, which is how suppliers find you. From abroad, the operational checklist is: confirm the company’s size category and therefore its issuing deadline; sign with an approved platform or confirm that the current accounting software is connected to one; register the routing in the directory; test reception with one real supplier invoice; and organise archiving.<\/p>\n

Archiving deserves emphasis because a tax audit (contr\u00f4le fiscal<\/em>) reaches a foreign-based founder exactly as it reaches a Parisian one, through the French company. Article 286 of the Tax Code requires every VAT-registered person to keep books and supporting documents, providing that les pi\u00e8ces justificatives des op\u00e9rations effectu\u00e9es par les redevables, notamment les factures d’achat, doivent \u00eatre conserv\u00e9s selon les modalit\u00e9s pr\u00e9vues aux I et I bis de l’article L. 102 B du livre des proc\u00e9dures fiscales<\/a>. The administration’s guidance adds that les documents (dont les factures) \u00e9tablis ou re\u00e7us sur support informatique doivent \u00eatre conserv\u00e9s sous cette forme pendant un d\u00e9lai de 6 ans. Ce d\u00e9lai court \u00e0 compter de la date \u00e0 laquelle la facture a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tablie.<\/em> A qualified electronic seal (cachet \u00e9lectronique qualifi\u00e9<\/em>) may be used to guarantee authenticity of origin, integrity of content and legibility, and the technical conditions were set by the decree of 16 May 2023 (d\u00e9cret n\u00b0 2023-377 du 16 mai 2023<\/em>, available at decree no. 2023-377 of 16 May 2023 on electronic invoicing, published in the Journal officiel). Concretely: keep invoices in their original electronic form for six years, do not print-and-delete, and ensure the platform contract guarantees export of the archive if you change providers.<\/p>\n

At the same time, four new mandatory mentions (mentions obligatoires<\/em>) must appear on issued invoices: le num\u00e9ro SIREN du client ; l’adresse de livraison des biens, lorsqu’elle est diff\u00e9rente de l’adresse de facturation ; l’information selon laquelle les op\u00e9rations donnant lieu \u00e0 une facture sont constitu\u00e9es exclusivement de livraisons de biens ou de prestations de services ou sont constitu\u00e9es de ces deux cat\u00e9gories d’op\u00e9rations ; le paiement de la TVA sur les d\u00e9bits, lorsque le prestataire a opt\u00e9 pour celui-ci<\/em>. They apply from 1 September 2026 for large companies and ETI<\/em>, and from 1 September 2027 for PME<\/em> and micro-enterprises. A foreign-owned French company should update its invoice template now, because the client’s SIREN<\/em> is the key that routes the invoice through the directory: an invoice without the client’s SIREN<\/em> cannot circulate properly in the new system. Ask every new French client for its SIREN<\/em> at onboarding, display your own SIREN<\/em>, VAT number, trade name, registered-office address, RCS<\/em> registration line (Registre du commerce et des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/em>, the company register held by the greffe<\/em>) and share capital where applicable, and distinguish goods from services line by line. If the company opted to pay VAT on debits (TVA sur les d\u00e9bits<\/em>, VAT due when invoiced rather than when paid) instead of on receipts, state it expressly.<\/p>\n

Two traps specific to foreign founders close this section. The first is the foreign director without a French-qualified signature: some platforms require identity verification that fails with a foreign passport number alone; solve it by combining the passport, the Kbis<\/em> showing your appointment, and where needed a certified translation. The second is the group that centralises accounting abroad: French invoices, including electronic ones, must remain available to the French tax administration in France within its access deadlines, in French or with translation on request, since article 289 recalls that Lorsqu’elle est r\u00e9dig\u00e9e dans une langue \u00e9trang\u00e8re, le service des imp\u00f4ts peut, \u00e0 des fins de contr\u00f4le, exiger une traduction en fran\u00e7ais<\/a>. Centralise if you wish, but keep a complete, exportable French-accessible archive.<\/p>\n

II. What does a wrong, late or unpaid invoice cost your French company, and how do courts decide?<\/h2>\n

A. How much do missing mentions, late payment and late issuing cost: which fines apply?<\/h3>\n

Commercial law punishes the invoice itself, before any tax consequence. Article L. 441-9 of the Commercial Code (Code de commerce<\/em>) opens with the principle that Tout achat de produits ou toute prestation de service pour une activit\u00e9 professionnelle fait l’objet d’une facturation<\/a>, imposes delivery of the invoice upon performance, lists the mandatory content (names and addresses of the parties, date of sale or service, quantity, precise description, unit price excluding VAT, price reductions, payment date, discount terms, late-penalty rate, fixed recovery indemnity, order number where applicable), and provides that Tout manquement au I est passible d’une amende administrative dont le montant ne peut exc\u00e9der 75 000 \u20ac pour une personne physique et 375 000 \u20ac pour une personne morale<\/a>, doubled on repeat offending within two years. These fines are administrative, imposed after an inspection by the competition and consumer authority (DGCCRF<\/em>, Direction g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la r\u00e9pression des fraudes<\/em>), and they strike the company, not only its director. A foreign shareholder who treats invoicing as back-office paperwork discovers the amounts only at the inspection report stage.<\/p>\n

Payment deadlines carry even heavier fines. Article L. 441-10 provides that le d\u00e9lai de r\u00e8glement des sommes dues ne peut d\u00e9passer trente jours apr\u00e8s la date de r\u00e9ception des marchandises ou d’ex\u00e9cution de la prestation demand\u00e9e<\/a>, that the agreed period may not exceed sixty days from invoice issue (or forty-five days end-of-month where expressly agreed and not manifestly abusive), and that Les p\u00e9nalit\u00e9s de retard sont exigibles sans qu’un rappel soit n\u00e9cessaire<\/a>, at a rate equal to the European Central Bank refinancing rate plus ten points unless otherwise agreed within the legal floor, plus a fixed recovery indemnity set by decree (40 euros). Article L. 441-16 then punishes breach: Est passible d’une amende administrative dont le montant ne peut exc\u00e9der 75 000 \u20ac pour une personne physique et deux millions d’euros pour une personne morale, le fait de : a) Ne pas respecter les d\u00e9lais de paiement pr\u00e9vus au I de l’article L. 441-10<\/a>, again doubled on repeat offending, reaching 150,000 and four million euros. For a foreign-owned French company that pays its French suppliers late because validation circuits run through headquarters abroad, these amounts dwarf the invoice: centralise approvals if needed, but pay within the French deadline, print the penalty rate and the 40-euro indemnity on every invoice template, and never delete them to “stay commercial”.<\/p>\n

The electronic format adds its own layer rather than replacing these rules. An invoice that circulates outside the approved circuit after the applicable deadline is an invoice that does not legally exist in the expected form: the VAT deduction can be challenged, the 75,000\/375,000-euro fine for missing or non-compliant invoicing remains available, and the company’s returns, soon pre-filled from platform data, will show the gap. The prudent sequence for a founder abroad is therefore: compliant content first (L. 441-9 mentions including the four new ones), compliant deadlines second (L. 441-10 payment terms printed and applied), compliant channel third (approved platform, directory registration, six-year electronic archive). Each layer has its own inspector \u2014 DGCCRF for commercial mentions and deadlines, DGFIP for VAT and archiving \u2014 and neither accepts “our head office is abroad” as an excuse.<\/p>\n

B. Who wins when a French invoice goes to court: what three recent decisions teach foreign companies?<\/h3>\n

Courts decide invoice disputes on documents, not on explanations, and distance changes nothing about that. The first lesson comes from the judicial court of Metz (tribunal judiciaire<\/em>), commercial chamber, order of 9 December 2025 (RG 25\/00746, https:\/\/www.courdecassation.fr\/decision\/697a2b93cdc6046d47fe63c1<\/a>). A subcontractor had performed energy-efficiency works, issued invoice TDR-2024767-T of 13 June 2024 for 41,393.52 euros, sent reminders, then a formal demand (mise en demeure<\/em>) by registered letter of 20 August 2024, and obtained written payment promises that were never honoured. The principal was finally paid during the proceedings, but interest, the fixed indemnity and costs remained. The court ordered provisionally: CONDAMNONS \u00e0 titre provisionnel la SAS APONERGY \u00e0 payer \u00e0 la SAS IBS TECHNOLOGIES la somme de 40 euros au titre de l’indemnit\u00e9 forfaitaire pour frais de recouvrement<\/em> and CONDAMNONS \u00e0 titre provisionnel la SAS APONERGY \u00e0 payer \u00e0 la SAS IBS TECHNOLOGIES les int\u00e9r\u00eats de retard au taux de trois fois celui de l’int\u00e9r\u00eat l\u00e9gal entre le 20 ao\u00fbt 2024 et le 25 septembre 2025 au titre du retard de paiement de la facture n\u00b0 TDR-2024767-T du 13 juin 2024 \u00e9tablie pour un montant de 41 393,52 euros<\/em>, plus 1,000 euros under article 700 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Three teachings for a founder abroad: a written record (accepted quote, acceptance report without reservation, dated invoice, registered demand) wins even against an absent defendant; late interest at three times the legal rate plus 40 euros applies automatically once the payment date passes; and paying the principal late does not erase interest, indemnity or costs. Keep every proof in the company’s French file, because the judge reads the file, not your memory of phone calls.<\/p>\n

The second lesson involves a foreign company directly. On 29 January 2026, the Paris Court of Appeal (P\u00f4le 1, chamber 3, RG 25\/06673, https:\/\/www.courdecassation.fr\/decision\/697c58d3cdc6046d4738c4be<\/a>) decided a dispute between SY International, a company governed by Tunisian law, and Esprit Maille, a French SAS trading in fabrics. Between June 2023 and May 2024 the Tunisian company had placed several orders; the French supplier sued for summary (r\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9<\/em>) payment, asking the court to condamner la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 SY International \u00e0 payer, \u00e0 titre provisionnel, \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Esprit Maille la somme de 611 930,88 euros, au titre des factures impay\u00e9es<\/em>, plus la somme de 1 560 euros, au titre des indemnit\u00e9s forfaitaires pour frais de recouvrement<\/em>. The first judge granted 75,000 euros plus 536,930.88 euros, and autoris\u00e9 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 SY International \u00e0 payer la somme de 536 930,68 euros en 6 \u00e9ch\u00e9ances cons\u00e9cutives, les cinq premi\u00e8res de 90 000 euros, la sixi\u00e8me du solde, la premi\u00e8re le 15 du mois suivant la signification de la pr\u00e9sente ordonnance, les suivantes chaque 15 du mois<\/em>, with acceleration on any missed instalment. On appeal, the foreign buyer lost entirely: Confirme l’ordonnance entreprise en toutes ses dispositions soumises \u00e0 la cour<\/em>, Rejette les demandes de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 SY International<\/em>, Condamne la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 SY International aux d\u00e9pens d’appel<\/em> and to pay la somme de cinq mille (5 000) euros sur le fondement de l’article 700 du code de proc\u00e9dure civile<\/em>. For a foreign founder, the message is symmetrical: French summary proceedings (r\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9-provision<\/em> under article 873 of the Code of Civil Procedure) order payment of undisputed invoices within months, foreign domicile does not slow them,instalment plans remain exceptional and conditional, and contesting without a documented defence (non-conformity proven by bailiff’s report, quantified set-off, timely protest of the invoice) adds article 700 costs to the debt. If your French company is the creditor, the same weapon works for you from abroad, provided the invoice file is complete; the detailed procedure is described in the guide to recovering unpaid invoices from abroad through the French payment-order and European procedures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The third lesson concerns guarantees over invoices. On 5 May 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal (P\u00f4le 5, chamber 10, RG 24\/05556, https:\/\/www.courdecassation.fr\/decision\/681997b26a65bd051c5d6d52<\/a>), deciding on remand after the Court of Cassation’s ruling of 7 February 2024 (appeal V 22-18.828), examined contracts under which a service company had agreed to r\u00e9aliser une \u00e9tude garantie de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 GMS meunerie et \u00e0 garantir le r\u00e8glement des factures \u00e9mises par la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Eurepi \u00e0 un taux d’indemnisation de 90 % hors taxe, dans les limites respectives de 2 000 000 euros pendant une p\u00e9riode de 12 mois, 350 000 euros pendant une dur\u00e9e de 7 mois et 2 000 000 euros pendant une p\u00e9riode de 12 mois<\/em>, before the customer entered judicial recovery (redressement judiciaire<\/em>) then liquidation. The litigation turned on whether the guarantor owed the guaranteed percentage once the underlying debtor collapsed. Foreign founders meet this pattern whenever a factor, credit insurer or parent guarantee covers French receivables: the guarantee’s caps, periods and triggering documents decide everything, and insolvency of the customer does not automatically release a properly drafted guarantor. Read the guarantee’s wording before the default, declare the claim in the customer’s insolvency on time, and keep the guaranteed invoices enforceable separately against the guarantor.<\/p>\n

Taken together, the three decisions draw the proof discipline your French company needs while you live abroad: issue complete invoices through the right channel, protest a wrong invoice immediately in writing, demand payment by registered letter, preserve the contract, the order, the delivery note, the acceptance report and the full correspondence, and sue early in r\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9<\/em> rather than letting the limitation period or the debtor’s insolvency decide for you. Electronic invoicing helps this discipline, because platform-stamped dispatch and reception dates, the directory trail and the six-year archive give the judge exactly the dated documents courts prefer.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

Since 1 September 2026, your French company must be able to receive electronic invoices through an approved platform, whatever country you live in; issuing follows on 1 September 2026 for large and mid-sized companies and on 1 September 2027 for small, medium and micro-enterprises, with e-reporting covering the rest of the turnover on the same timetable. Content comes first with the L. 441-9 mentions plus the four new items including the client’s SIREN<\/em>, deadlines second with the thirty-day, sixty-day and forty-five-day end-of-month limits of L. 441-10 backed by fines up to two and four million euros under L. 441-16, channel and archiving third with directory registration and six-year electronic conservation. Foreign invoices stay on reverse charge under article 283 but enter e-reporting, and every document must be producible to the French administration with translation on request. Courts, as the Metz, Paris-Tunisian and Paris-guarantee decisions show, reward the creditor whose file is complete and punish late or silent debtors with automatic interest, the 40-euro indemnity, article 700 awards and instalment plans that accelerate on first default. Designate the platform this week, fix the template, shorten the approval circuit so French suppliers are paid on French time, and archive everything: run from abroad, your company invoices like a Parisian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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