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Future-proof your compliance journey by choosing the right PDP
We are committed to updating our France 2024 solution development, testing and delivery phases with you. The sooner you begin preparing for the mandatory reform, the better positioned you’ll be to leverage this change for future business development.
By choosing Basware as your PDP, you get world-class AP capabilities and experience, which is key to achieving compliance with the mandate. With Basware, you also get:
350
French customers are already on this journey with us
40+
years of expertise and experience
170
million invoices transacted through our network
60+
countries enabled for compliant invoicing
We have a realistic testing and implementation schedule for our solution, so you can be confident that your organisation will be compliant with the mandate by June 2024. Basware’s France 2024 e-invoicing mandate extension delivery is as follows:
12/2022 - Sales ready offering based on mandate
01/2023 - Passed ISO 27001 audit, gaining certification
04/2023 - Support of mandate core formats & documentation
04/2023 - FNFE future PDP interoperability proof of concept
06/2023 - Securing SecNumCloud requirements
06/2023 - Basware application for PDP
06/2023 - Invoice lifecycle status & e-reporting capabilities ready
08/2023 - Connectivity testing with government platform (PPF)
Q4/2023 - Buyer registration process capability ready
Q4/2023 - Piloting with select customers
As an active member of the France 2024 mandate PDP working group, led by the General Directorate of Public Finances and the National Forum for Electronic Invoicing and Electronic Public Contracts (FNFE-MPE), Basware is always up to date with the latest mandate developments.
We are compliant with PDP requirements and have a realistic testing and implementation schedule, so you won’t run the risk of being fined by the government.
Basware has implemented many mandate transformations and supports countless multinational companies with their compliance needs every day. Choosing a PDP with strong AP capabilities and experience is key to success when working on compliance with the mandate. So, choose Basware!
The mandate is an opportunity to further develop your finance automation to grow, expand and become compliant in many countries, not just France.
Think beyond the classic e-invoice process to find a solution that seamlessly integrates with other financial solutions, offers modern functionalities and reporting features, and ensures company-wide compliance for both receiving and sending e-invoices – ultimately minimising manual work and making your invoicing process touchless.
Please challenge us to share our knowledge and best practises with you! This is a great opportunity to develop your business for years to come.
Backed by our 40+ years of expertise, experience and powerful solutions, Basware empowers you to make the most out of your e-invoicing investment to ensure future finance automation opportunities for your business.
As an example, our e-reporting feature not only serves the France 2024 mandate requirements, but also gives your decision-makers new, undiscovered insights to help further develop your business.
Over 350 French companies already trust Basware to help them become compliant with the 2024 mandate. Here are just a few examples of why companies choose Basware for their invoice automation.
Our experience with Basware has been very positive. We started slowly with our e-pdf partner integration, but over the last 6 months Basware has worked closely with us and we are seeing a month on month increase in key KPI’s.
Basware Invoice Automation has truly transformed the way we do business. It's opened up everyone’s eyes to information that we didn’t have before and enables us to really take control of our AP operations.
[The] Basware solution saves significant time and money, enables enhanced tracking and easy auditing, and provides the accuracy, efficiencies, visibility and control we need.
Basware invoice handling brings automation to a new level. Dedicated internal resources is a success factor, but with the system the opportunities of automation are huge. The system will support the finance and operational processes without our company and ensure better quality as well as fast handling.
Basware’s expertise is vital in these areas, supporting us and helping us to manage internal changes as well as those concerning our customers and suppliers.
Our team of experts are available to discuss how Basware can help you get compliant with the France 2024 mandate and develop your business.
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You need an experienced partner who has a deep understanding of the constantly changing e-invoicing environment. With innovative solutions that ensure e-invoicing compliance in over 60 countries, Basware is that partner. Visit our interactive compliance map to stay up to date on this everchanging topic.
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Only structured formats will be considered valid e-invoices for fiscal purposes under the French B2B mandate. This means that by latest 2026, paper and simple PDF invoices will no longer be valid in France for B2B e-Invoicing.
The DGFIP (Direction générale des Finances publiques; translates as General Directorate of Public Finance) is planning to regulate the use of a number of formats, as long as they are compatible with the European Norm. The initially permitted three formats are UBL 2.1, UN/CEFACT CII and Factur-X.
PDP stands for Plateformes de dématérialisation partenaires, which translates to partner digitalization/dematerialization platform. Vendor registration for becoming a PDP will open in May 2023 – no platform can pretend to be registered or accredited before then. PDPs will need to undergo a compliance audit to demonstrate to the administration its capacity to fulfil the requirements.
PDPs are required to:
PPF stands for Portail public de facturation, which translates as public billing portal. The publicly trusted third party offers free services and concentrates on invoicing and billing data for the tax authorities. The public invoicing portal allows companies to submit invoices, created by them in a structured or mixed format:
The public billing portal also allows you to enter the data online or to upload a PDF file representing the invoice. The data entered (or extracted from the PDF) is then transformed, after validation, into one of the structured formats of the platform.
The corresponding invoice is made available to the recipient without any additional action from the depositor.
E-Invoicing will not be mandatory for B2C and cross-border invoices. However, to get a complete overview of all invoice transactions, the government will require companies to send e-Reporting files.
E-Reporting requires a specific set of data-points in a specific form and will have to be sent on a recurring basis. Companies will have to be able to produce e-Reporting and send them to the government platform, either directly or through a partner platform (PDP) which can produce these files and deliver them to the government platform. These transactions are affected by e-reporting:
In addition to invoice data, companies will have to transmit the invoice processing statuses to the government platform - directly or via a partner platform.
The invoice lifecycle will guarantee more transparency on the status of operations to the government. Some statuses will be mandatory (invoice submitted, refused, rejected, received) and other will be optional (disputed, approved, etc.).
Since 1st January 2020, e-invoicing in France has been mandatory for all transactions with the public sector (B2G, business-to-government) via the Chorus Pro portal.
Starting from 1st July 2024, the B2G invoice flows will be using the new e-invoicing system, the Portail public de facturation (PPF). This means 800,000 private entities need to anticipate the obligation to issue B2G invoices via the new e-invoicing landscape. To date, there is still no clarity about potential transition periods for existing Chorus Pro flows.