E-reporting B2B international Purchases

Invoices From Foreign Suppliers Under the French E-Invoicing Reform

Your supplier is in Germany, Ireland or the United States: a SaaS subscription, a freelancer, goods shipped from another EU country. Their invoice never travels through the French network, yet the tax administration expects its data from you, the buyer: that is the e-reporting of international B2B purchases. Get Factur-X declares it in a minute, from the PDF you received or by hand.

Declaration prefilled from the supplier's PDF

Example

Field	Value
Direction	Purchase from a supplier outside France
Supplier	IT12345678901 · Italy
Invoice	IT-2026-0910-041 · 10 Sep 2026
VAT treatment	Reverse charge (AE) · 1 500,00 € excl. VAT
Status	Ready to declare

Extracted from the file you received, checked by you, declared in one click.

International invoices

Example

Date	Reference	Counterparty	Amount	Filing
10 Sep 2026	IT-2026-0910-041 · Purchase	IT12345678901 · IT	1 500,00 €	Awaiting filing
4 Sep 2026	INV-88213 · Purchase	IE6388047V · IE	249,00 €	Accepted
28 Aug 2026	2026-0812 · Purchase	47-1234567 · US	3 200,00 $	Accepted

Every declared purchase, with the filing that carried it and the administration's answer.

Connect your company once; a supplier invoice then takes a minute.

Already a customer? Declare a supplier invoice

Compliant with standards EN 16931 Factur-X Chorus Pro Peppol BIS PDF/A-3 Plateforme Agréée

Two Ways to Declare a Foreign Supplier's Invoice

Both end in the same filing, on your VAT regime's schedule.

Declare it by upload

Drop the PDF or XML your supplier sent you. The header is extracted, the direction recognised as a purchase when your company is the buyer, the form prefilled: you check the VAT treatment and declare.

Declare a supplier invoice

Declare it by hand

No file? Type the supplier's country and VAT number, the invoice number and date, and the amounts by VAT treatment. Reverse charge is one choice in the list.

Declared purchases appear in your declared-data list with the filing they went out in. Selling abroad as well? Read the guide for customers abroad

How Declaring a Foreign Supplier's Invoice Works

Connect once, then a minute per invoice.

Step 1

Connect Your Company

A one-time identity check links your company to the exchange network through an accredited platform. Your VAT regime sets the filing schedule for your purchases too.

Step 2

Upload or Type the Invoice

Drop the supplier's PDF or XML for a prefilled form, or type the header by hand: supplier country and VAT number, number, date, amounts by VAT treatment. Your account refuses a duplicate.

Step 3

Filed and Tracked

The platform aggregates your international purchases into the transaction filing on your regime's schedule. Each invoice shows the filing it went out in and the administration's answer.

Foreign Supplier Invoices, Declared Without Retyping

What the reform asks of the buyer, in the account you already use.

Prefilled From the Supplier's File

Drop the PDF or XML: number, date, supplier, currency and VAT lines are extracted. A PDF without embedded data is read by the AI extraction.

Reverse Charge as a Choice

Reverse charge, intra-EU supply, exemption or French VAT: pick the treatment per line, as stated on the invoice, and the filing says the same.

Any Supplier Country

EU or not, the supplier is identified by country and VAT number, and the declaration keeps the invoice's currency.

No Double Declaration

Before declaring, your account checks that the same number, date and direction is not already on the platform, and refuses a second copy.

Sales and Purchases, One Page

The same page declares a sale to a customer abroad and a purchase from a foreign supplier. From a file, the direction is inferred from where your company appears.

Every Purchase Tracked

Declared purchases sit in your declared-data list with the filing they went out in and the administration's answer, ready for your accountant.

Frequently Asked Questions

Buying from suppliers outside France under the reform, explained.

Do I have to declare the invoices I receive from suppliers outside France?

Yes, when you are the one liable for the VAT on the operation, which is the usual case under reverse charge. A supplier outside France cannot report through the French network, so the data of the purchase comes from you, the buyer. It is the mirror of a sale to a customer abroad.

What exactly is declared?

The invoice header: the supplier's country and VAT number, the invoice number and date, the operation type, the currency, and the amounts by VAT treatment. No line items and no file: the PDF you received stays with you.

Which VAT treatment applies to a purchase from abroad?

Services bought from a business in another country are usually reverse charged: the supplier invoices without VAT and you self-assess French VAT on your return. Goods received from another EU country are an intra-Community acquisition, handled the same way. Your supplier's invoice states the treatment; you pick the matching one on the declaration line.

My supplier sent a plain PDF. Does the upload work?

Yes. A Factur-X or XML file is read directly; a plain PDF is read by the AI extraction, which fills the header and the VAT lines for you to check. When your company appears as the buyer, the direction is set to purchase for you.

Subscriptions and small recurring invoices too?

Yes. There is no amount threshold: each invoice from a supplier outside France is declared once, at the invoice level. A recurring invoice takes the same minute each time, from the PDF you receive.

When does it become mandatory?

On the same calendar as the rest of e-reporting: since 1 September 2026 for large and mid-sized companies, from 1 September 2027 for small and micro businesses.

What if I declare a purchase twice, or with a mistake?

A declared entry cannot be edited or deleted on the platform, so your account refuses a second declaration of the same number, date and direction. A mistake is corrected the way invoices always are: your supplier issues a credit note, which you declare the same way.

Can I declare an invoice from last month?

The platform only accepts invoices issued in the current filing period, whose length your VAT regime sets: ten days, a month or two months. Declare as invoices arrive; an older one is refused with the reason shown.

Does my supplier need to do anything?

No. A supplier outside France is not part of the French network and has nothing to file here. They invoice you as they always did; the declaration is your side of the reform.

What does it cost?

A declaration by upload or by hand uses one send from your plan, like any declaration. Reading the file to prefill the form is free.

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