French invoices need TVA, payment terms, and chronological numbering. Everhour keeps billable work priced before invoicing.
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A French invoice has to do more than request payment. It records the seller, the buyer, the supply, the tax treatment, the amount due, and the commercial payment terms. For a business customer in France, the invoice should be clear enough for accounting entry, VAT review, and payment approval without follow-up questions.
Start with the practical outcome: a dated invoice with a unique chronological number, complete party details, itemized services or goods, totals excluding tax and including tax, and the correct TVA treatment. If the sale, service, delivery, or deposit date differs from the invoice issue date, show that date too.
French invoices must show seller or service provider identity details, buyer or client identity details, the billing address when different, and business identifiers such as SIREN. Companies may also need legal form and share capital. The seller's individual VAT identification number belongs on the invoice, and the professional customer's VAT number is required when that customer is liable for VAT, except for invoices totaling EUR 150 or less excluding tax.
Line items need enough detail to identify the goods or services supplied. Include the description, quantity, unit price excluding tax, applicable VAT rate or exemption, and totals excluding tax and including tax. France uses TVA with a 20% standard rate and reduced or special rates of 10%, 5.5%, and 2.1% for specified goods and services.
VAT should be shown by rate on amounts excluding tax. For each TVA rate used, list the taxable total excluding tax and the corresponding tax amount. A mixed invoice with services taxed at 20% and eligible items taxed at 10% needs separate taxable bases, not one blended tax line.
Business-to-business payment terms also need care. The default payment period is 30 days from receipt of goods or performance of services unless agreed otherwise. Ordinary negotiated limits are 60 days from invoice issue or 45 days end of month. French B2B invoices must mention the payment due date, early-payment discount terms, late-payment penalty rate, and the fixed EUR 40 recovery indemnity due for late payment by a professional customer.
A one-off invoice maker works well when you have a single client, a short service description, and a known TVA treatment. It is enough for a quick draft when the invoice number, buyer details, tax lines, and payment terms are already settled.
A managed workflow becomes useful when billable time, different rates, project costs, and invoice status all need to stay connected. Everhour separates internal cost rates from client-facing billable rates, supports per-person defaults and per-project overrides, preserves dated rate history, and can price billable work by project, member, or task before the invoice is created.
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A French business invoice should identify the seller and buyer clearly. Include seller and buyer identity details, the billing address when different, and business identifiers such as SIREN. The seller's individual VAT identification number must appear, and the professional customer's VAT number is required when that customer is liable for VAT, except for invoices totaling EUR 150 or less excluding tax.
A French invoice needs the applicable VAT rate or exemption for the supplied goods or services. The invoice must show VAT due and, for each VAT rate used, the taxable total excluding tax and the corresponding tax amount. Services or goods outside TVA charging rules should show the correct exemption treatment rather than a made-up tax line.
Invoice amounts may be expressed in any currency if the VAT payable or to be adjusted is determined in euros. The tax administration may require a sworn translation for invoices written in a foreign language, so cross-border invoices should keep tax wording, dates, and payment terms especially clear.
A French B2B invoice must state the payment due date, early-payment discount terms, late-payment penalty rate, and the fixed EUR 40 recovery indemnity due for late payment by a professional customer. The default payment period is 30 days from receipt of goods or performance of services unless the parties agreed valid different terms.
French VAT-taxable businesses must be able to receive e-invoices from September 1, 2026. Issuing e-invoices starts on September 1, 2026 for large companies and ETIs, and on September 1, 2027 for SMEs and micro-enterprises. Those dates apply to the French phased B2B e-invoicing mandate through approved platforms.
Everhour separates cost rates from billable rates, so internal labor cost and client-facing charges stay distinct. Teams can set default per-person rates, override rates per project, preserve dated rate history, and price billable work by project, member, or task before turning tracked work into an invoice.
Everhour marks time as invoiced after it is included in an invoice, so the same billable entries do not appear again as uninvoiced work. That protection helps teams keep project billing records aligned when multiple people track time for the same client.
Set rates once, keep dated pricing history, and turn approved billable work into client invoices. Everhour gives teams cleaner pricing control before invoice generation.
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