France is live. It will not look the same anywhere else.

The timing is staggered. Every French business had to be able to receive from day one, while only large and mid-sized companies have to send and report so far. Smaller companies follow in September 2027.

Since 1 September, we have handled both the e-invoice and the tax reporting for the businesses billing through us in France. We did not build the French platform ourselves. We deliver through an approved partner, under one contract, and we say so plainly because this market is not always precise about which company holds which approval.

Elsewhere it looks different. Belgium went live on 1 January 2026 and left consumers out entirely. Italy has run both consumer and business invoices through one national system since 2019. Germany has required businesses to receive since January 2025 and will not require them to send e-invoices until January 2027, or 2028 for smaller issuers. Norway does it the other way round, issuing from 2027 and receiving not until 2030. Spain has a final decree but its clock has not started, because it runs from a ministerial order that has not been published.

So there is no single European requirement to prepare for. There are several, they arrive on different dates, and they ask for different things.

The French rules even ask for a record of when a service invoice is paid. Nothing in them makes that happen, which is the part we work on.

If you are working out what that means for your own billing, in France or in the markets coming next, we are happy to go through it.

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