France e-invoicing 2026 — your date and your exposure
Your own issuance date, your reception status, and what running late actually costs — €15 per invoice and €500 per missed e-report, each capped at €15,000 a year.
Your issuance date
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Days until issuance (negative = already past)
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days
Reception obligation (since 1 Sep 2026)
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Invoices issued on paper or PDF while late
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invoices
Invoice fine, capped
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€ / year
E-reporting fine, capped
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€ / year
Total exposure
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€ / year
Cap check
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Keep this run. CSV export of this scenario for your board paper or your expert-comptable, plus a browser alarm set on your issuance date. Get the full version — $60
$60 once · one licence key per person or team seat · 7-day full refund. A French expert-comptable bills €100–€250 an hour for advisory work (Companeo and Hayot Expertise 2026 fee guides). The calculation above stays free and unlimited.
Your issuance date, not the headline date A GE or ETI had to start issuing on 1 September 2026; a PME or TPE starts 1 September 2027. The tool picks your date from your size and counts the days left, or the days you are already past.
Reception overdue counter Reception of Factur-X, UBL and CII through a PDP has been mandatory for every French VAT-registered business since 1 September 2026, with no size waiver. The tool counts how many days you have been past that.
Both fines with their statutory caps €15 per invoice that should have been electronic and €500 per missed e-reporting transmission, each capped at €15,000 per year. The tool applies each cap separately and shows the uncapped figure so you can see the gap.
The €250 to €500 e-reporting change The original text set €250 per missed transmission; the 2026 Finance Act raised it to €500. The rate is a switch, so you can price both readings instead of trusting one number a chatbot gave you.
CSV export of the scenario (paid) Writes your inputs, both fines, the caps and the dates to a CSV row you can keep, attach to a board paper or hand to your expert-comptable. Unlocked by the $60 licence key.
Deadline alarm (paid) Sets a browser alarm for your issuance date so the 1 September 2027 PME cut-off does not arrive unnoticed. Unlocked by the same $60 licence key.
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Your own issuance date, your reception status, and what running late actually costs — €15 per invoice and €500 per missed e-report, each capped at €15,000 a year.
A French expert-comptable bills €100–€250 an hour for advisory work (Companeo and Hayot Expertise 2026 fee guides); a readiness review is several hours.
It turns the French 2026 e-invoicing mandate into your numbers. Pick your size, your monthly B2B invoice count and how long you expect to run late, and it returns your issuance date, how many days past the 1 September 2026 reception obligation you are, and both fines with their €15,000 annual caps applied.
Who is it for?
French GE and ETI finance teams who had to start issuing on 1 September 2026, PME and TPE teams facing 1 September 2027, and foreign suppliers invoicing French VAT-registered customers who now have to send through a PDP. It is built for the person who has to put a euro figure in front of a board.
Why not just ask a chatbot or use a free calculator?
The rates moved. The original text set €250 per missed e-reporting transmission and the 2026 Finance Act raised it to €500, and most assistants still answer with the old number and no cap. Generic penalty calculators also apply one deadline to everyone instead of splitting GE/ETI from PME/TPE.
What is free and what needs the key?
Every calculation is free and unlimited, in the popup and on the web page, with no watermark, no run limit and no data leaving your browser. The $60 licence key adds two things on a different axis: CSV export of a scenario, and a browser alarm set on your issuance date.
What would this cost me otherwise?
A French expert-comptable bills roughly €100 to €250 an hour for advisory work according to 2026 fee guides, and a mandate readiness review runs several hours. The exposure itself reaches the €15,000 invoice cap after 1,000 non-compliant invoices, which a 240-invoice month hits inside five months.
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