French (FR) companies can now be authorized for e-invoicing. Until now an authorization request for a French company was rejected, which meant a French company could be created but never taken into use.
What changed
France is now a supported market for company authorization, alongside Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia and Poland. Authorization works the same way as it does for those countries, through the standard Visma Sign process.
You can authorize a French company with:
- POST /v1/company/authorization in the REST API
- authorize_companies in the SOAP API
What this means for you
If you already create French companies, you can now complete the authorization step and take those accounts into use. Trusted vendors running their own customer authentication process can authorize French companies directly, and French companies can be included in a multi-company authorization request.
Nothing changes for the other countries, and no action is needed if you have no French customers.
Limitations
As with company registration, France is available to selected partners while the rollout continues. Authorizing a single French company with an API key that is not a trusted vendor key is still rejected. See e-invoicing in France for the full set of requirements.