France E-Invoicing: What Amazon Vendors Need to Change from 1st September

France has turned on mandatory e-invoicing and VAT e-reporting. Amazon has updated its invoicing policy for every supplier that bills a French Amazon entity, and from 1 September 2026 its system will reject invoices that do not meet the new rules.

There are three separate changes, and they do not all apply to the same people. A lot of the noise around this comes from vendors treating them as one mandate. Most non-French vendors only need the first two.

Three actions, three audiences

If you are not established in France, you almost certainly do not need a new e-invoicing platform. Check that before anyone starts ripping out an EDI connection that is still fine.

1. Complete the Tax interview

This one really is everyone.

Amazon added a Tax interview to Vendor Central on 15 July 2026. It collects factual information about your business so invoices can be processed correctly. It applies whether or not you fall under e-invoicing, and whether or not you are VAT registered.

Find it under Vendor Central → gear icon (top right) → Tax Registration → Take a new tax interview.

Amazon will not advise you on the answers. Put it in front of your finance or tax adviser rather than filling it in from memory. Those answers govern how every invoice you send is treated.

2. The new invoice content requirements

This is the one most vendors actually have to deal with. It applies to anyone invoicing a French Amazon entity, regardless of where the supplier is based.

Amazon has 18 French legal entities, including Amazon EU SARL succursale française, Amazon France Logistique, Amazon France Transport and Amazon Business EU succursale française. If you have billed any of them, this applies.

The detail is in the Retail EDIFACT INVOIC Mapping Guide version 3.0, published 6 July 2026. It adds new segments and qualifiers to the INVOIC message. They are conditional on your tax position, not blanket-mandatory.

The VAT declaring party is a different legal entity from you. It has its own name, street, city, postcode, country and VAT number. Repeating your own address does not count. If you are in a VAT group or you use a fiscal representative, Amazon treats these fields as required. Without them the invoice is incomplete.

And if you declare reverse charge, the lines have to match. A header claiming reverse charge with 20% VAT still sitting on a line will fail. That is the sort of contradiction the new validation is looking for.

Test it before Amazon does

Vendor Central has a test path: Orders → Invoice Validation. That opens Amazon Inbound Central, where you can upload a test invoice and a test credit note in UBL, CII or Factur-X and get the validation result, including a defect list.

3. Full e-invoicing, for French-established vendors only

This is the actual new integration, not just extra fields on the existing message.

If you are established in France and above the size threshold, French law now requires domestic B2B invoices to go through an accredited platform (a Plateforme Agréée) rather than straight to the customer. Amazon is using EDICOM, so your platform has to interoperate with theirs. The format also changes: EDIFACT is replaced by UBL, CII or Factur-X XML.

Thresholds follow the national rollout: large businesses and ETI from 1 September 2026, SME and micro from 1 September 2027.

Two limits worth keeping in mind:

• Cross-border invoices are unaffected. They stay on your existing EDI or Vendor Central channel.
• The mandate is about where the business is established, not where you sell. A UK or German vendor shipping into Amazon France is not in this bucket. They still have to meet the content requirements above.

What to do this week

• Complete the Tax interview. Everyone. Take it to finance or tax first.
• List the French Amazon entities you invoice. That tells you whether the content rules apply. For most vendors they will.
• Write down your tax position. Established in France? VAT group? Fiscal representative? Reverse charge? Those four answers drive the new fields.
• Run a test invoice and a test credit note through Invoice Validation and read the defect list.
• Check that your invoicing system can emit the new fields. Most cannot without a change. If you send EDIFACT INVOIC through a provider, ask them whether they are on Mapping Guide 3.0.
• Only if you are French-established and above the threshold, start talking about an accredited platform. Everyone else can leave the EDI connection as it is.

Why this will hurt some vendors and not others

Amazon is applying the same logic it already uses on chargebacks: the data you send has to match what is actually true.

An ASN has to describe the pallet that arrives. An invoice now has to describe the legal entity that declares the VAT. Amazon will check the story the data tells. If it is wrong, the invoice comes back. The fix is in your own system, not in a dispute afterwards.

Vendors who keep tax position in one place and let it flow onto every document will barely notice. Vendors who maintain that information by hand across a few systems and a spreadsheet will.

How KhooCommerce handles this

The new content requirements are in the platform.

You record the French tax position once: SIREN, VAT group or fiscal representative, invoice issuer where it differs, VAT treatment, exemption reason. Invoices and credit notes billed to a French Amazon entity then pick up the right segments on their own.

Invoices billed elsewhere are left alone. That matters when one EDI connection is carrying orders for Amazon entities in several countries. 

If you invoice French Amazon entities and you are not sure your current setup covers this, get in touch and we will go through it with you.