French invoices require specific TVA, payment, and identity details. Everhour supports billable-rate workflows before invoice creation.
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Use this page when you need a French invoice structure for a client, supplier, or internal billing process. The document must identify the seller or service provider, the buyer or client, and any billing address that differs from the main address. Business identifiers matter in France, including SIREN and, where applicable, a company's legal form and share capital.
The invoice also needs a dated, unique number from a chronological continuous sequence. Add the invoice issue date and the date of sale, service, delivery, or deposit when that date differs. A template should make those fields visible, because missing dates or broken numbering can create accounting and audit problems.
Each line should describe the goods or services supplied, quantity, and unit price excluding tax, known as HT. The invoice must show the applicable TVA rate or exemption, plus totals excluding tax and including tax, known as TTC. 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.
A correct French template separates TVA by rate. For each TVA rate used, show the taxable total excluding tax and the matching tax amount. The seller's individual VAT identification number must appear, and the professional customer's VAT number is required when the customer is liable for VAT, except for invoices with a total excluding tax of EUR 150 or less.
French B2B invoices need more than a total due. They 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. These fields help the buyer's accounting team approve the invoice without asking for a revised copy.
The default B2B payment period is 30 days from receipt of goods or performance of services unless the parties agree otherwise. Ordinary negotiated limits are 60 days from invoice issue or 45 days end of month. Put the agreed term in the template once, then calculate the due date from the invoice issue date or the agreed contractual trigger.
A one-off template is enough for a simple sale, a single service invoice, or a small client request where the line items are already known. It gives you the French invoice structure, TVA placement, payment terms, and late-payment mentions in one document. It does not create a durable record of who worked, which rate applied, or which time has already been billed.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when services are billed from tracked time, mixed rates, or recurring project work. Everhour separates internal cost rates from client-facing billable rates, supports per-person defaults and per-project overrides, preserves dated rate history, and prices billable work by project, member, or task before invoicing.
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A French invoice should show the seller or service provider identity, the buyer or client identity, billing address when different, and business identifiers such as SIREN. Companies also add legal form and share capital where applicable. The seller's individual VAT identification number must appear on invoices, and some professional customer invoices also require the customer's VAT number.
A French invoice must show the applicable TVA rate or exemption for the supplied goods or services. When multiple TVA rates apply, the invoice must show the taxable total excluding tax and the tax amount for each rate. France's listed TVA rates include 20%, 10%, 5.5%, and 2.1%, depending on the category.
Invoice amounts may be expressed in any currency if the VAT payable or to be adjusted is determined in euros. Keep the tax presentation clear enough for French records. The tax administration may require a sworn translation for invoices written in a foreign language, so a French-language version is often safer for domestic business records.
French B2B invoices should 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 unless agreed otherwise, with ordinary negotiated limits of 60 days from invoice issue or 45 days end of month.
French VAT-taxable businesses must be able to receive e-invoices from September 1, 2026. E-invoice issuance starts on September 1, 2026 for large companies and ETIs, and on September 1, 2027 for SMEs and micro-enterprises. A template can support manual work now, but affected businesses need an approved electronic invoicing path for the mandate.
Everhour separates internal cost rates from client-facing billable rates, with per-person defaults, per-project overrides, dated rate changes, and billing by project, member, or custom task rate. That structure helps service teams price French client work from the correct rate history before creating invoice lines.
Everhour marks time as invoiced after it is included in an invoice, so it does not appear again in future uninvoiced time selections. That invoice workflow helps teams keep billable hours, expenses, and client billing status connected across recurring project work.
Use Everhour to price project work with dated cost and billable rates, then carry approved billable time into invoicing for cleaner client billing.
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