on 24 September 2026 French e-invoicing platform: get registered, and your supplier invoices arrive on their own
Registering on a French e-invoicing platform is the step that makes your company reachable, and it takes about ten minutes:
- your company number is enough: the platform fetches your legal name and legal representative on its own;
- no paperwork to prepare, beyond an ID document and a phone;
- nothing to install: everything happens in your browser, then in DoliPlus;
- once and for all: from then on, your invoices travel without you thinking about it.
In other words, one morning is enough to be compliant. After that, your supplier invoices land straight in DoliPlus, with nothing to re-key.
DoliPlus is the enhanced cloud edition of Dolibarr.
Why your company has to be registered
Since the French reform, business-to-business invoices no longer travel freely by email. They pass through a French e-invoicing platform approved by the State, which acts as the postal service.
That platform therefore has to know who you are. Your invoices will travel under your identity, and the tax authority holds the platform accountable for it.
The deadline is close, too: from 1 September 2026, every French company must be able to receive its supplier invoices in electronic format. The obligation to issue them comes later, depending on company size.
What to have at hand
- the company registration number (SIREN), nine digits. The rest is fetched automatically.
- an ID document for the legal representative: identity card, passport or residence permit.
- a phone with a camera, because the verification happens from a mobile.
Registering on the French e-invoicing platform, screen by screen
Registering on the French e-invoicing platform takes four screens. Go to the platform website, then click “Create an account”.
1. The account type
Choose “Production – Legal representative”. That choice is what triggers the company verification. Any other account type would let you neither issue nor genuinely receive.
2. Your company
Enter your company number. The platform immediately shows your legal name, your address and the registered legal representative, for confirmation.
If the representative shown is not the right one, do not go further. It means your public records reflect an earlier situation; have them corrected at the commercial registry first, otherwise the verification will fail later on.
3. The agreements
Three boxes appear. Two of them really matter:
- “I give my formal agreement to send and receive electronic invoices”: mandatory — this is the mandate you grant the platform;
- taking part in the pilot phase: optional;
- “I want to register in the directory straight away”: essential in order to receive.
Do not skip the third one. The directory is the national address book: it is what lets your suppliers find you. Without that entry, their invoices have no way of reaching you.
4. Identity verification
A QR code finally appears. Scan it with your phone, then photograph the legal representative’s ID document. The file then goes for validation: the answer is sometimes immediate, sometimes a few hours later.
“What is your routing identifier?” — what to answer
A customer or a supplier will eventually ask, often by email and with no explanation. There is nothing mysterious about it: the routing identifier is the number the national directory finds you under. You already have it — it is the one you declared when registering.
- Your SIREN, nine digits, is enough to reach you: it identifies the company.
- Your SIRET, fourteen digits, designates one specific establishment. Give that one if you have several and invoices must reach the right one.
If your company has several establishments, each SIRET is added as an extra identifier on the platform account: without that, their invoices would all go out under the head office’s SIRET.
And the “specific fields” you are offered?
The same question often comes with a second one: do you want to use the e-invoice’s “specific fields”? These are two optional fields, inherited from public-sector invoicing:
- the service code, which designates the receiving department at your customer’s;
- the commitment number, that is, the reference of the public purchase order.
Between private companies the answer is usually no: both stay empty and nobody asks for them. They become mandatory when you invoice a public body, which rejects the invoice if they are missing.
In DoliPlus they carry their own names — Service code (Chorus Pro) and Commitment number — and most of the time you have nothing to type: failing an explicit value, the software reuses the invoice’s customer reference for the service code, and the linked order’s reference for the commitment number.
And then? Your invoices arrive on their own
Once your company is registered, one step remains: linking DoliPlus to your account. We do it with you, and it takes five minutes — the full procedure is below.
From then on, your supplier invoices land straight in DoliPlus. You therefore find them where you already work, with no re-keying and no attachment to open.
Connecting DoliPlus, in five minutes
Your French e-invoicing platform account is live; now DoliPlus needs to reach it. Two codes to copy, nothing else: no file, no installation, no technical work.
Plan to be a DoliPlus administrator, since everything happens in the settings. Keep two windows open as well, because you will go back and forth between the platform and DoliPlus.
1. Create your application on the platform
Log in to your account, then open the “Applications” menu. Create an application with these settings:
- Mode: Production.
- Format: Factur-X.
- Type: Confidential.
- IBAN: the account you get paid into.
- Redirect URLs: leave empty.
Four mistakes cost time here. First, picking a mode other than Production. Then filling in the redirect URLs field, which must stay empty. Next, creating the application on the wrong company, if you run several. Finally, copying the codes inaccurately.
On validation, the platform shows two codes: an application ID and a secret.
2. Paste your two codes into DoliPlus
In DoliPlus, open Setup → Modules → Electronic invoicing. Scroll down to the “Production credentials” section, then paste your two codes there. Finally, untick “Sandbox mode”, higher up on the same page.
Indeed, the technical address is identical for testing and for real use: it is the application in play that makes the difference. Therefore check the “Active environment” line: it must read “Production”. Then click Save.
3. Check — the step not to skip
Click “Test the connection”. The expected result is simple: your company name appears. That is the only proof that the right codes are in place, on the right company.
However, a refusal right after creating the application is not necessarily a typing error. The platform checks the link between your application and your company in the background, and it turns calls down until that check completes. So wait a moment, then run the test again before changing anything.
4. Choosing what you open
Still on the same screen, the “Active scope” section opens the two directions separately.
Start with reception only. Untick “Issue customer invoices”. From then on, your supplier invoices arrive in DoliPlus, and nothing leaves from your customer invoices. Why start that way? Because the calendar does not impose both at once: receiving applies to every French company on 1 September 2026, while issuing is phased in until 2027 depending on company size. You will reopen issuing with a single tick, when the time comes.
Let DoliPlus receive your invoices. Leave “Reception delegated to an external platform” unticked. Only tick it if your supplier invoices are received elsewhere — on your accountant’s platform, for instance.
5. The last setting: your IBAN
In the “Company bank account” section, designate the account you get paid into. It will appear on every invoice you issue.
That choice is never automatic, and deliberately so: many companies also hold a factoring account, which must not end up on invoices by accident.
It is live
Your electronic supplier invoices now arrive in DoliPlus. You find them in the supplier invoice list, with their delivery status, without changing your habits.
Where to find a received invoice, and its readable PDF
Every invoice delivered through the French e-invoicing platform lands in DoliPlus as a supplier invoice. You therefore find it in your usual list, with its supplier, its amount and its due date.
Its readable version opens from the “ECM” tab of that invoice. That is indeed the tab to open: it carries this name on every record, and it gathers the documents attached to the invoice.
A real PDF, rebuilt for you
An approved platform carries the invoice as data, not as a document. In other words, your supplier passes on the content of the invoice, line by line, rather than an attached file.
DoliPlus therefore rebuilds the readable version in Factur-X format. As a result, one single file covers both needs: a PDF you read on screen or print, and, inside it, the compliant data the authorities expect.
You thus keep the copy a human reads, while your records keep the copy that counts.
The record tells you where the document stands
Every received invoice shows the status of its readable version. You therefore know at a glance whether the document is already available, or whether the platform still has to produce it.
In short, nothing needs watching: the invoice arrives, the document follows, and the record confirms it.
Your received invoices arrive as drafts: check, validate, fetch
Every invoice delivered through the French e-invoicing platform arrives as a draft supplier invoice. You check it, then validate it, exactly as you would an invoice you typed in.
DoliPlus fetches your received invoices every hour, with nothing for you to do. Need an invoice right away? On the Suppliers home page, click “Fetch received invoices”: it arrives at once.
What the draft contains
- the lines as your supplier wrote them, as free-text lines: they are therefore not linked to your product records;
- shipping costs and document-level discounts, on separate lines;
- finally, if the recalculated total differs from the received invoice, a note on the invoice tells you so.
Stop typing in your e-invoices
Had you already entered an invoice by hand, with the same number from the same supplier? In that case, DoliPlus does not create it again: it attaches the received document to your entry, and its readable version joins the invoice’s “ECM” tab.
Likewise, an invoice your supplier submits twice only comes in once. From now on, let these invoices arrive on their own: you save the typing.
The connection has been interrupted? Renew it in two minutes
The platform may stop accepting the saved authorisation. The e-invoicing setup then shows it, with the “Renew the connection” button. With an administrator account, click it, then sign in on the platform to confirm. Your company stays registered there: there is nothing to re-enter.
Going further
- Track where every invoice stands, at any moment
- The supplier data your management reporting is missing
- Drop a PDF and let the supplier invoice fill itself in
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