Medius helps businesses comply with the electronic invoicing requirement in France by becoming
an Approved Platform, formally registered with the French tax authorities (DGFIP).
Beginning September 1, 2026, the electronic invoicing obligation, also known as e-invoicing, will include purchasing and sales operations of goods and/or services between companies established in France and subject to VAT. This specifically covers domestic B2B operations as they pertain to the national territory.
In addition to e-invoicing, the reform includes an "e-reporting" component, which involves transmitting information to tax authorities for operations not covered by electronic invoicing, such as B2C transactions or transactions with foreign operators.
The implementation of this reform, whether for e-invoicing or e-reporting, will occur between 2026 and 2027.
September 1, 2026
All companies must be capable of receiving electronic invoices.
September 1, 2026
Large enterprises and intermediate-sized enterprises (ETI) must be able to send electronic invoices and manage e‑reporting.
September 1, 2027
All small and medium‑sized enterprises (PME) as well as micro‑enterprises must be able to send electronic invoices and manage e‑reporting.
To issue or receive electronic invoices and share e-reporting transaction data, companies must utilize an Approved Platform (PA), formerly PDP (Partner Dematerialization Platform), approved by the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGFiP).
The Public Invoicing Portal (PPF) will serve as a directory of electronic invoice recipients, and as an intermediary for the transmission of tax data.
Learn how invoices and government data are transmitted.
Source: translation of the invoice and data transmission process shared by the French Government.
A Partner Dematerialization Platform (PDP), now called Approved Platform (PA), is a platform duly registered with the administration. Only these platforms are authorized to perform all the functions provided for under the reform concerning electronic invoicing and e-reporting. The reform covers the issuance and receipt of electronic invoices, expense reports, as well as the transmission of transaction and payment data to the administration.
Each Approved Platform will be audited once within its first year, then every three years by independent bodies to confirm that its operating conditions remain consistent and sustainable.
The features supported by an Approved Platform include:
Issuance, transmission, and receipt of electronic invoices between the supplier and the client.
As an intermediary, the platform can adapt the format of the invoice issued by the supplier to ensure compatibility with the client’s needs. These operations must particularly guarantee the integrity, authenticity, readability, and completeness of the data.
Extraction and transmission of specific invoice data to the tax administration (e.g., identification of the supplier and client, the transaction's net amount, the VAT amount due, the VAT rate applied, etc.).
Transmission of transaction data not covered by an electronic invoice to the administration, in accordance with e-reporting requirements.
Transmission of payment data for all operations.
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Designed for mid-sized and large companies, Medius simplifies and optimizes spend management, covering all processes from procure-to-pay to employee expense reports, both of which are directly impacted by this reform.
As an Approved Platform (PA) officially registered with the French Tax Authority (DGFIP), Medius helps businesses comply with the reform by covering both electronic invoicing (receiving and sending) and e-reporting.
While the reform aims to digitalize transactions, automate accounting processes, and strengthen tax fraud prevention, it alone does not fully address the new challenges faced by finance departments, from increasing automation and flexibility to improving fraud detection, productivity, cross-department collaboration, and spend control. AI-powered automation bridges that gap, anticipating risks and enabling smarter, faster decisions.
The Medius AI-powered automation platform streamlines data capture, processing, and payment for supplier invoices and employee expenses, significantly reducing processing times across the entire source-to-pay cycle and improving the overall accounts payable performance.
Notable features to accelerate supplier invoice and expense processing:
Medius Capture achieves an automated capture rate of 99.7%.
Automatically match invoice line details against purchase orders, goods receipts and/or contracts to resolve discrepancies in invoices, POs, and receivables.
Simplify ERP integration via connectors for Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Infor, Iptor, Sage, or use REST APIs for other applications to accelerate deployments.
Use AI to spot anomalies and risk factors and to identify duplicate payments, fake invoices, and more.
Automatically respond to supplier inquiries via email in real time, personalized and in the supplier’s language.
Medius Copilot is an AI assistant that answers approvers’ questions automatically—so they can make accurate invoice decisions for increased on-time payments.
Get a single channel for payments in France and internationally, regardless of the ERP system.
Get a real-time view into how money is spent across your organization delivered through pre-defined reports, dashboards and KPIs.
Reduce invoice processing time for non-purchase-order invoices to 2 days, compared to an average of 7+ days. Discover other KPIs.
Expensya by Medius has been adopted by mid-sized and large companies for its robust data extraction from receipts, multi-VAT detection, mobile app, international options, fraud prevention, error detection, and integrated business intelligence.
Finance teams trade paper for e-invoices and yet 49% of finance teams reported no change in straight through invoice processing.
Under the reform, only invoices issued in structured formats will be considered by the tax authorities as valid electronic invoices. The three authorized formats are UBL, CII, or Factur-X. PDF and paper invoices will not be accepted by the tax authorities.
From an outbound perspective, Medius will support all three base formats (UBL, CII, Factur-X), Peppol bis 3.1, JSON and EDIFACT. The invoice automation solution offered by Medius for incoming invoices, also provides support for PDF, EDI 810 X12 formats for invoices from vendors that are not connected to an Approved Platform (PA).
After the government's decision to refocus the role of the Public Invoicing Portal (PPF) on directory and data aggregation functions, companies that planned to act as dematerialization operators (OD) can no longer route this information directly to the PPF, regardless of the type of flow. They are required to rely on an Approved Platform (PA), formerly called PDP, or to become one themselves.
Medius is an Approved Platform, officially registered with the French Tax Authority , and a Dematerialization Operator (or Compatible Solution), allowing connections with other Approved Platforms.
Regardless of the approach chosen, Medius supports mid-sized and large enterprises in optimizing and ensuring the compliance of their accounts payable processes, from dematerialization to invoice payment, all the way through to expense report management.
Medius intends to support all 14 invoice lifecycle statutes as part of the e-invoicing reform. The solution roadmap already anticipates this coverage and will be updated in accordance with the latest AFNOR publications, which are expected to be reviewed and simplified.
Medius AP Automation already includes advanced approval workflow capabilities. The solution supports both simple and complex business rules to automatically route invoices to the appropriate recipients. It accommodates supervisory roles, area-based approvers (by analytical scope), and approval matrices based on analytical combinations and amount thresholds. These rules can be configured directly within Medius or imported from external systems.
Clients retain full autonomy to administer and adjust these parameters independently, without requiring assistance from Medius for each change.
Our customers can consult the directory through our PA (via API or EDI), enabling them to manage their address lines directly within the solution. Clients can administer and adjust all parameters independently, without requiring Medius support for each change.
Customers can submit either individual invoices or a consolidated file, as in B2C, from which Medius’s AP solution automatically extracts and consolidates all the data required for e-reporting.
Medius is already connected to Chorus Pro Live, enabling the processing of B2G transactions in France.
Yes, Medius is already a Peppol Access Point.
As part of the e-invoicing reform, several use cases related to expense management have been identified. Depending on their characteristics, these cases will need to be handled by companies through e-invoicing or e-reporting. This notably includes purchases made via a corporate card, the management of toll receipts, and the handling of restaurant expenses. Medius intends to address these expense report use cases through Expensya by Medius, which digitalizes and automates the entire employee expense process, from receipt capture to reimbursement, while ensuring legally compliant archiving.
The electronic invoice enters the system at the verification stage. Instead of a long series of data, Medius converts the information so that you can have a picture of the invoice, while retaining the option of correcting the data, so that you always have the correct information without having to make manual adjustments in your ERP.
