Choosing a PDP — how to pick a Plateforme de Dématérialisation Partenaire in France

If you sell B2B in France, the single most important decision in the e-invoicing reform is which PDP you connect to. A Plateforme de Dématérialisation Partenaire is the accredited private platform that will issue, receive and report your invoices on your behalf. Get the choice right and compliance is mostly invisible; get it wrong and you inherit someone else's roadmap.

Why you now need a PDP at all

The reform originally promised a free public option — the Portail Public de Facturation (PPF) — that any business could use to exchange invoices directly. That changed in October 2024. The government dropped the free PPF exchange service. The PPF now keeps two narrower jobs:

• the central annuaire (directory) that maps each SIRET to the platform

that receives its invoices, and

• the concentrateur, which collects invoice and reporting data for the

tax administration.

Everything else — actually sending and receiving structured invoices — runs through a PDP. In practice that means every French business needs a PDP, either directly or through the accounting tool it already uses.

What a PDP actually does

A registered PDP sits between you and the rest of the ecosystem and handles:

• Issuing — converting your invoice into a compliant structured format

(EN 16931: Factur-X, UBL or CII) and routing it to your customer's platform.

• Receiving — accepting inbound invoices addressed to your SIRET and

presenting them to you.

• Format conversion — bridging between the formats you and your customer

each prefer, often over the Peppol network.

• Life-cycle statuses — transmitting the mandatory status flags

(deposited, rejected, refused, paid) back and forth.

• E-reporting — extracting the transaction and payment data the DGFiP

requires and forwarding it to the concentrateur.

Immatriculation: the badge that matters

A PDP is not self-declared. Each one is immatriculée (registered) by the DGFiP after an audit, and receives an identification number valid for three years. Before you commit, confirm the provider actually holds — or is firmly on track to hold — that registration. A platform that "supports e-invoicing" but is not a registered PDP cannot legally exchange your B2B invoices after the mandate.

A short checklist for choosing

□ Registered (immatriculée) PDP, or partnered with one
□ Handles BOTH issuing and receiving for your SIRET(s)
□ Emits Factur-X and UBL/CII (EN 16931), not one only
□ Peppol-connected for cross-platform reach
□ Automates the four life-cycle statuses
□ Covers e-reporting (B2C + cross-border + payment data)
□ Fits how you already invoice — no double entry
□ Transparent pricing per invoice / per SIRET

The last point is the one people underrate. A PDP that forces you to re-key invoices into a separate portal defeats the purpose. The goal is that your existing invoicing flow simply gains a compliant delivery channel.

Where Eurobillr fits

Eurobillr already builds EN 16931-compliant UBL and Factur-X hybrid PDFs, routes public-sector invoices through Chorus Pro via PISTE, and speaks Peppol. As the B2B mandate lands, that means your invoices are already in the right shape to hand to a PDP — no format rework, no separate portal.

See the full France e-invoicing guide for the country-by-country picture.