France-specific e-invoicing settings in Avalara and Zuora by preparing required identifiers, configuring seller and buyer data, and validating billing document setup.

France is part of Zuora's Avalara country coverage expansion, and the France package is intended to provide pre-integrated support for invoices, credit memos, and debit memos through Avalara. France is a mandatory e-invoicing market, with B2G already in effect and domestic B2B rollout starting on September 1, 2026 for large and mid-size companies and on September 1, 2027 for SMEs and micro-entities.

For the France pre-integrated package, Zuora currently targets Avalara with the Clearance process and UBL as the supported outbound format. The supported download types for the France package are XML, PDF, UBL_XML, UBL_FLOW1_XML, and UBL_FLOW2_XML.

Before you begin, make sure you have the France-specific identifiers required for both seller and buyer data. For the current France setup, you must provide the SIREN number, the FR-prefixed SIRET number, and the Addressing Line Identifier, together with the required schema identifiers used by Avalara during France activation.

In addition to document generation and submission, Zuora supports E-Invoice Business Status updates for France e-invoicing workflows. This capability helps keep business-level invoice status information synchronized between buyers and sellers when status changes occur after document issuance.

For France, E-Invoice Business Status updates can occur through two paths. Buyer-driven updates received through Avalara/CDAR notifications are synchronized to the corresponding e-invoice record in Zuora. Seller-driven updates can also be initiated from Zuora when operational reconciliation or external payment collection requires a business status change.

Zuora supports business status handling that aligns with the Avalara/CDAR-supported statuses and mappings used for France e-invoicing flows. Sellers can explicitly update the invoice business status to Paid / Payment Collected when applicable.

All business status changes are recorded for auditability. Zuora preserves the previous status, new status, source or actor, and timestamp for each update so that customers can trace business status transitions throughout the e-invoice lifecycle.