In the context of the widespread adoption of electronic invoicing in Europe, BoondManager allows you to download your invoices in a suitable format (Factur-X or CII).

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Electronic invoicing enables the dematerialization of invoice exchanges. Instead of exchanging PDF documents by mail or email, clients and providers exchange billing elements as data flows.

This transition, initiated since 2020, now makes electronic invoicing mandatory for all French companies subject to VAT, starting from:

Electronic invoices must include organized information: they can no longer be simple PDFs. Companies will be required to exchange their electronic invoices via dedicated electronic invoicing platforms:

Invoices in France must be in one of the following three formats: UBL, CII, or Factur-X.

BoondManager offers CII and Factur-X formats for export.

Your invoices will therefore be ready to be uploaded to these platforms.

For more information about the reform rollout, we invite you to consult French government articles such as:

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Before exporting your invoices in these formats, a few elements are required.

As mentioned earlier, Factur-X and CII formats are structured standards and therefore require specific information for reading in IT systems.

As a Billing Officer, you must check certain points in your client's billing details before exporting your invoices:

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Billing Module > Order view > Order card

To download one of your invoices, you can go to the Billing module or the Billing tab of your project to open the relevant purchase order.

You will find the invoices linked to your purchase order.

Click on the invoice you want to download, then export the invoice by choosing one of the available formats:

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Billing Module > Invoices view

To download several invoices at once, the Invoices view in the Billing module is perfect for selecting invoices to export.

Once filtered, click on the selection tool then on the Export button. You can download your invoices with or without their attachments in the available formats:

You will find your exported invoices in the download center.

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As a reminder, Chorus Pro is the public billing portal.

Once logged in to Chorus Pro:

You can, of course, upload your invoices in bulk to Chorus Pro by choosing a ZIP file downloaded from Boond, containing all your invoices. (see the "Downloading Your Electronic Invoices" section above)

You will find the invoices you have uploaded in the "Issued invoices" tab > "Search" sub-tab.

Your invoice will move to the "Uploaded" stage while Chorus Pro certifies that the invoice is properly integrated into its databases, then the invoice will move to the "Made available to recipient" stage.

For more information on the lifecycle of your invoices on Chorus Pro, we invite you to read their article on the subject.

If you do not find your invoice in the "Issued invoices > Search" tab as mentioned above, your invoice may have been rejected and not issued. To check this, go to the "Flow monitoring" tab.

After uploading your invoice, the information (flows) should be "Integrated" into Chorus Pro's data. If not, you will instead see the stage "Rejected". This means you did not properly qualify your Boond interface before downloading your invoice and Chorus Pro's IT system does not recognize your information.

We invite you to re-read the "Prerequisites" section of this article and check that your information is correct (VAT, SIRET, or invoice reference).

For example, Chorus Pro will reject invoices with the same reference as a previously uploaded invoice.

Error messages can help you determine which information was not recognized by Chorus Pro so you can review this information before downloading your invoice on BoondManager.

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