Ready to receive electronic invoices?

A SIREN, SIRET, VAT number or company name entered above returns the answer in seconds. The check reports whether an electronic invoicing address is published for that company, what that address is, which invoice formats it accepts and which organisation operates the Access Point behind it. A single check is free and needs no account, and the answer comes from official sources read at that moment rather than from a stored list, with the time of reading on the result.

Check before the invoice, not after the rejection: a check costs seconds and an unreachable customer costs a payment cycle. Four moments account for most checks. Onboarding a new customer and setting up their file. Before a first invoice run to a customer never billed electronically. After a platform reports a rejection, when the question is what the customer actually publishes. And when a customer file is being cleaned, when the question is which of several hundred accounts are not yet reachable.

Since 1 September 2026 every VAT-registered business established in France must be able to receive electronic invoices. Large and intermediate-sized companies must also issue them and report transaction data from the same date. Small and micro businesses begin issuing on 1 September 2027. The obligation is set out in article 123 of law 2026-103.

For most companies it is the SIREN, the nine-digit company number. It is not an email address. The address is published on Peppol under scheme 0225 in one of four forms: the SIREN alone, the SIREN with a SIRET, the SIREN with a SIRET and a routing code, or the SIREN with a suffix chosen by the recipient.

It is published by the platform the customer uses, not by the customer, which is why it is often unknown inside the business itself. This check lists every Peppol identifier under scheme 0225 published for the company in a few seconds. The company identifier, 0225 followed by the SIREN, is shown first when it is published; any line for an establishment or a sub-address is listed for you to select, with the Access Point operator and formats of the one selected. The identifier is copyable, so it can be pasted straight into an ERP or accounting system.

An electronic invoice reaches a French customer only if that customer has published an address to receive it, and in a format that address accepts. A company that has not published one is unreachable however the invoice is sent, and an invoice in a format the address does not list can be refused. The check reports both the address and the formats it accepts.

It means no address was published for that company at the moment of the check. Being obliged to receive and actually being reachable are different things, and no official list a system can read tells them apart, so this is a statement about what is published then, not about the company’s obligations or its compliance. The official annuaire, which only a person can consult, may still show a line for it.

Which line a given invoice belongs in is decided by the recipient. The annuaire starts every company at SIREN level, and a company may add lines for individual establishments, routing sub-addresses for internal sorting, and sometimes a reply-to address that carries only acknowledgements. The check lists every line published under scheme 0225, each with its level (company, establishment or sub-address), the name published with it and whether it accepts an invoice. Only the company identifier, 0225 followed by the SIREN, is selected for you, and only when it is published; any other line is resolved when you select it. A sub-address can be published under another business’s name, such as a hotel booking or purchasing service, and that name is shown as published. The sending platform confirms the address from the annuaire, which only accredited platforms can read in full; a person can consult it on the portal, and it also records whether a line is active.

The organisation that operates the Peppol Access Point behind the address, named from the certificate published for it. It is who your own platform exchanges with, and it is often a company the customer never mentions. It is not necessarily the platform the customer contracted: an approved platform may route through another company’s Access Point, so the name can be a supplier of theirs. Where the certificate cannot be read, no operator is named rather than guessed.

Yes, and it is the only way to confirm an address was published. Publishing is done by the platform a business uses, not by the business itself, so a company that has signed up with a platform has no direct view of what reached the network. Entering your own SIREN returns what a customer’s system would find.

No, but they are kept aligned. The official annuaire is the central directory of the French reform, run by the public invoicing portal. An approved platform that registers its users on the Peppol network must keep those registrations aligned with the annuaire, and platforms may instead exchange through bilateral agreements, which this check cannot see. The two lists are therefore not identical: a company can appear in the annuaire without appearing here. The annuaire is consultable by a person on the official portal, one company at a time, and cannot be queried by a system.

Yes, and it is one page. Any check can be printed as a record carrying the answer, the address, the moment of the check and a link that runs it again, and nothing is stored here, so that printout is the only copy. What such a record is worth changed when the reform started: the Ministry for the Economy stated on 1 September 2026 that no penalty would apply to any business during 2026, describing the start date as a beginning rather than a cut-off. That relief covers 2026 only.

Checks are free. Signing in with LinkedIn, also free, adds every address a company publishes, the identity details from the state register, and checks of up to 100 companies at once. Any check can be printed as a dated one-page record. Nothing you check is stored: identifiers are validated, looked up and returned, and are not written to a database.