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Invoicing for France

GA · 2 min in 2 videos · dev relevance medium · no what's new item of its own, but documented in the product docs (checked 2026-10-02)

Invoicing for France

Invoicing for France is introduced with three new e-document formats set up on the e-document service, including e-reporting. Lifecycle events such as collected, submitted, accepted, refused and technical rejected are stored as messages linked to the invoice e-document.

Area: E-Documents. Status: GA. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 2 min across 2 videos, demoed.

Status evidence

  • 8:17 in "What's new in Finance: Overview": "Now, we introduce invoicing for France. It will be in GA as well."

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • 8:17 "Because it will be mandatory from the beginning of next year." - Gives a regulatory deadline that affects the Spain Verifactu rollout.
  • 8:55 "the same e document and message architecture has been used for French regulatory feature" - EDI and French regulatory features share one message architecture.
  • 9:48 "other supported um messages types are submitted, accepted, refused and technical rejected" - Lists the lifecycle message types supported for French regulatory tracking.

Caveats mentioned

  • Applying a customer payment creates a collected message and unapplying creates a negative collected message.

Prerequisites mentioned

  • The three formats are set up on the e-document service as other formats

Documented features match

  • No documented item matched. Not documented
  • Product documentation: Electronic invoicing in France with UBL 2.1 and Factur-X, checked 2026-10-02. Business Central supports both formats through the E-Reporting FR extension; invoices are exported and sent through the E-Document framework to the PDP or PPF. Note: Formats are Peppol BIS 3.0 FR and Factur-X FR; the companion article /localfunctionality/france/electronic-reporting-france covers the E-Reporting FR format and acceptance date from the PDP status. Lifecycle messages as linked messages are not described explicitly (only statuses in the document log). The matching 2026 wave 1 release plan page (/dynamics365/release-plan/2026wave1/.../enable-electronic-invoicing-france) documents an

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale.

Tags: e-documents, france, compliance, localization, finance

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.