The vocabulary, in five words
Five words to recognise
Five words keep coming up in letters from your customers and your accountant. Here they are, in plain language.
Five words are enough to follow the whole reform.
Platform
The state-approved service that carries invoices from one company to another. Cybelia Cloud files yours with SuperPDP, the platform we are connected to. It is the invoice's post office.
Factur-X
The legal invoice format: a PDF a human can read, which also holds the same data in a form software can read. One file, two readings.
Invoicing mandate
The document by which you authorise Cybelia Cloud to raise and transmit your invoices in your name and on your behalf. You remain the legal issuer. That is the next chapter.
Electronic invoicing address
Your customer's address on the platform, much like a postal address. It is written in two parts separated by an underscore:
508790268_TVEFG: before the underscore, the company's registration number; after it, the routing code.
Routing code
The second half of that address. It says which department at your customer's end will handle the invoice: accounts payable, a branch, a cost centre, a site. Without it the invoice reaches the company but is assigned to nobody.
If you remember only one term from this lesson, make it routing code. It is currently the leading cause of held-up payments, and the one point that depends entirely on you.
In closing
These five words will come up in letters from your customers and your accountant. Recognising them is enough: you will never have to use them yourself.
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