Electronic invoice: the advantages
Productivity gain
Automation helps improve the efficiency of billing processes. Processing and payment times are considerably reduced and cash management optimized.
Cost reduction
Electronic invoicing eliminates the costs associated with printing, mailing and archiving invoices.
Traceability and monitoring
Real-time tracking of invoice history, sending and receipt dates, as well as possible payments and delays. This makes cash flow management easier and helps anticipate payment problems.
Customer experience
Create a better customer/supplier relationship thanks to the fluidity and speed of exchanges
Automate your invoicing process and gain productivity
Our e-Facture PDP solution is a comprehensive, modular and secure platform based on a state-of-the-art infrastructure hosted in our data centers in France.
e-Facture PDP guarantees the transmission and reception of invoices in electronic format, their integrity and conformity control, and ensures the transmission of invoicing data to the Public Billing Portal (PPF) in compliance with the regulatory requirements of 2026.
e-Facture PDP can also process paper and PDF invoices to support companies during the digital transition phase, offering a one-stop shop for all invoices, whatever their format.
Why choose the SERES electronic invoice?
Based on over 25 years' experience in electronic invoicing, e-Facture PDP is the most comprehensive solution on the market, enabling you to switch to electronic invoicing quickly and efficiently, while guaranteeing a significant reduction in processing costs and a rapid ROI (return on investment).
A long-standing player in electronic invoicing, we are an active member of EESPA (European E-Invoicing Service Providers Association) and GS1 France, as well as a stakeholder in the various e-invoicing bodies and working groups organized by the DGFIP (Direction Générale des Finances Publiques), AIFE, FNFE, MEDEF, Lab Chorus-pro (IPM), etc.
This makes Seres a trusted partner to help you achieve compliance.
As a partner dematerialization platform (PDP), provisionally registered under number 0020, we aim to support our customers in their performance challenges and compliance with legal standards and obligations.
Our membership of Docaposte (La Poste Group's digital subsidiary), the French benchmark for a trusted, sovereign and responsible digital environment, provides our customers with an additional guarantee of reliability and continuity. .
Automate your purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash processes
The obligation to deploy electronic invoicing is an opportunity for companies to rethink P2P and O2C processes and make them more efficient. Thanks to an integrated approach, our solution enables you to manage the entire buying and selling cycle in a simplified, automated way.
Benefits of electronic invoice:
- Reduce costs & processing times.
- Improving customer and supplier relations.
- Positive impact on CSR (lower paper bill).
- Cash management optimization.
- Improved working conditions for your teams (automation of repetitive tasks, automated controls, smoother customer communication).
- Performance indicators .
- Enrich and maintain reliable audit trails.
Our electronic invoice solutions
Purchase-to-Pay (P2P)
Digitalize your supplier cycle.
Efficiently manage your purchases and expenses, and simplify relations with your suppliers by automating your P2P process, from order to invoice.
Order-to-Cash (O2C)
Digitalize your customer cycle.
Optimize your entire sales process and effectively manage your order-to-cash chain by dematerializing your customer invoices.
Electronic invoicing 2026: get ready for the regulatory obligation
From September 2026, electronic invoicing will be compulsory in France for B2B exchanges between G.C. (Grands Comptes) and E.T.I. (Entreprises de Taille Intermédiaire) companies. Since January 1, 2020, companies have been obliged to send their invoices to the public sector electronically via the Chorus Pro portal. This obligation will soon apply to all B2B transactions between French companies subject to VAT.
From September 1, 2026, all companies will be obliged to accept electronic invoices.
Then, between 2026 and 2027, the obligation to issue invoices in electronic format will be phased in, depending on company size:
- From September 2026 for large and mid-sized companies.
- From September 2027 for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro-businesses.
This law is based on 4 main objectives:
- Boosting business competitiveness.
- Combating VAT fraud.
- Managing business activity more effectively.
- Facilitating VAT returns through pre-filling.
Be in compliance with new legal obligations
To comply with the new legal obligations, companies will need to use a platform to send and receive invoices and transmit data to the tax authorities: this platform can be either a certified partner dematerialization platform (PDP (Plateforme de Dématérialisation Partenaire)), or the public invoicing portal (PPF).
To prepare for the impact of these new regulations on your organization, you need to adopt a proactive approach and anticipate the changes ahead, as this is a major change affecting information systems, processes and company organization
Which makes SERES a trusted partner to support you in your compliance.
The e-invoicing obligation
e-Facture lets you exchange your electronic invoices (e-invoicing) in the formats required by regulations: Factur-X, XML, UBL or CII, as well as in other specific standardized formats such as EDIFACT. We manage the entire lifecycle of customer and supplier invoices. The platform connects to your IS (Information Systems), retrieves all your invoice flows and can exchange them both directly with another PDP and via the PPF. It performs regulatory and business-specific checks. You can use dashboards to monitor invoice processing.
e-Facture archives your invoices in an electronic safe with probative value for 10 years.
The e-reporting obligation
Legislation supplements the e-invoicing obligation with the obligation to transmit e-reports to the Public Billing Portal for international or intra-Community transactions, and BtoC transactions.
e-Facture manages your e-reports, with data transmitted according to the frequency defined by the authorities, depending on the size of your company and your VAT regime.
e-Facture also takes care of sending e-reports to the archiving platform.