Invoice generator for France

This invoice generator for France works in three steps: pick your status (micro-entrepreneur, sole trader known as EI, or company), enter your name, SIREN number and address, then the client and the lines. The total on the right updates as you type, and the preview shows the invoice exactly as it will print. Click "Download the invoice PDF" to get an A4 file ready to send. With the prefilled example, a logo at €850 plus three hours at €55 comes to €1,015 due for a micro-entrepreneur under the VAT exemption; the same work billed by a company at 20% VAT would be €1,218 including VAT. The French mandatory mentions are added for you: sequential number, due date, late-payment penalties, the €40 recovery fee for business clients and « TVA non applicable, art. 293 B du CGI ». The invoice itself stays in French, as French law requires. The main limit: this PDF is not an e-invoice, and it remains valid only until 31 August 2027 for a small business.

A French invoice (facture) must carry a fixed set of mentions, whether the client is a private individual or a business: issue date, a unique number from a chronological, unbroken sequence, the date of the sale or the end of the service, the identity of both parties, the client's purchase order number if there is one, each line in detail (quantity, precise description, unit price before VAT, VAT rate), totals before and after VAT, the payment date, early-payment discount terms, the late-payment penalty rate and, for a business client, the fixed €40 compensation for recovery costs.

The tool adapts the document to your status. As a micro-entrepreneur or sole trader, your name is followed by « EI », which article R526-27 of the French Commercial Code requires on business documents. A company shows its name, legal form (SARL, SAS…), share capital and its trade register entry followed by the SIREN, for example « RCS Lyon 123 456 789 ».

Under the franchise en base de TVA, the VAT exemption for businesses whose turnover stays below the thresholds (€85,000 for sales, €37,500 for services in 2026), prices carry no VAT and the invoice must say « TVA non applicable, art. 293 B du CGI ». It applies to any business under the thresholds, companies included. With reverse charge (autoliquidation), the business client accounts for the VAT and the invoice says « Autoliquidation ». Craft trades such as plumbers or builders also list their professional insurance: insurer and geographical cover.

Late-payment penalties are due without any reminder. The default rate, 12.40%, is the European Central Bank refinancing rate on 1 July 2026 (2.40%) plus 10 points; it may not be lower than three times the French legal interest rate. When there is no early-payment discount, the invoice still has to say so: an empty field prints « Escompte pour paiement anticipé : néant ». The EU VAT number is not required on an invoice of €150 or less before VAT. Missing mentions can cost up to €75,000 for an individual and €375,000 for a company under article L441-9 of the Commercial Code.

The reform arrives in two stages, according to impots.gouv.fr, the French tax office website. Since 1 September 2026, every business, micro-entrepreneurs included, must be able to receive e-invoices, and large companies and mid-sized firms must also issue them and report their data. From 1 September 2027, issuing e-invoices and reporting data become compulsory for small businesses and micro-entrepreneurs, including those under the VAT exemption.

Four new mentions come with the reform, on the same date as e-invoicing for your category: the business client's SIREN, the delivery address when it differs, the type of transactions (goods, services or both) and, where relevant, « Option pour le paiement de la taxe d'après les débits ». The generator already prints them, so your template is ready. A PDF sent by email is not an e-invoice in the sense of the reform; it stays valid until your own start date. Sales to private clients will not need e-invoices: you will report transaction data to the tax office instead (e-reporting), on the same timetable.

From 1 January 2027, French VAT rules move from the code général des impôts (CGI) to a new code, the code des impositions sur les biens et services. The BOFiP guidance of 7 October 2026 says invoices may keep referring to the CGI until 30 June 2028, so « art. 293 B du CGI » can still be used.

Each line is rounded to the cent: quantity × unit price before VAT, minus any discount. The total before VAT is the sum of the lines. VAT is calculated per rate on the combined base of all lines at that rate, then rounded; the total including VAT is the total before VAT plus those amounts. The rates offered are 20%, 10%, 5.5%, 2.1% and 0%. To check a single price, the French VAT calculator converts both ways.

After each download the number used is remembered in your browser, and "Next invoice" proposes the following one (F-2026-007 becomes F-2026-008), clears the client and lines and keeps your details. Write line descriptions and payment terms in French, since they appear on the invoice as typed. For a price estimate before the work starts, use the French quote (devis) generator, which adds a validity date and a box for the client's signature.

• Entreprendre Service Public, Mentions obligatoires sur une facture (mandatory invoice mentions, checked 11 August 2026), page read on 27 October 2026.
• Entreprendre Service Public, Documents commerciaux d'une micro-entreprise (a micro-business's commercial documents), page read on 27 October 2026.
• Entreprendre Service Public, Délais de paiement entre professionnels et pénalités de retard (B2B payment terms and late penalties, checked 7 August 2026), page read on 27 October 2026.
• Entreprendre Service Public, Franchise en base de TVA (VAT exemption below the threshold), page read on 27 October 2026.
• economie.gouv.fr, Mentions obligatoires d'une facture : tout savoir (invoice mentions explained), page read on 27 October 2026.
• impots.gouv.fr, À partir de quand suis-je concerné par la réforme de la facturation électronique ? (e-invoicing timetable), page read on 27 October 2026.
• impots.gouv.fr, Est-ce qu'une facture envoyée par mail est une facture électronique ? (is an emailed invoice an e-invoice?), page read on 27 October 2026.
• BOFiP-Impôts, BOI-RES-TVA-000253, transitional rules for moving VAT into the code des impositions sur les biens et services (7 October 2026), page read on 27 October 2026.
• Légifrance, Code de commerce, article L441-9 (French Commercial Code), page read on 27 October 2026.

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