Comply with French E-Reporting Requirements

You can now send electronic reports using specific service providers to the French authorities to comply with electronic invoicing mandates in France.

These message definitions are available:

• UN-CDAR-1-0-AR-Invoice-LifeCycle-Out (Receivables Invoice Life Cycle Status Report – Outbound)
• UBL-2-1-AP-Invoice-LifeCycle-Out (Payables Invoice Life Cycle Status Report – Outbound)
• UBL-2-1-AP-Invoice-Extract-Out message definition (International and Self-Billing Payables Invoices – Outbound)
• UBL-2-1-ConfirmationMessageReceipt-In (B2B Message Processing Result – Inbound)

You can also receive confirmations for these reports from service providers.

Use these messages as part of the process of making your business compliant with French e-reporting regulations.

This feature is accessible to those users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege:

• Manage Collaboration Message Definitions by Web Service (CMK_MANAGE_COLLAB_MESG_DEFINITION_WEB_SERVICE_PRIV privilege).

  This privilege was available prior to this update.

You must enable the Simplify Configuration and Processing for B2B Messaging option and perform the high-level tasks to complete the set up.

Create a Service Provider

Follow these steps:

1. Select B2B Connections from the Task Panel.
2. Select the Providers tab to add a new provider.
3. Select Service Provider as the Provider Type and then add the remaining details for the service provider.
4. Click Save.

Configure Delivery Method

Follow these steps:

1. Select B2B Connections from the Task Panel.
2. Select the Delivery Methods tab and add a new delivery method.
3. Enter details for the delivery method.
4. Save the delivery method.

Create a Connection for Each Document

Follow these steps:

1. Select B2B Connections from the Task Panel.
2. Select the Connections tab and add a new connection.
   1. Enter a name.
   2. Select Internal and Self-Billing Payables Invoices – Outbound as the document.
   3. Select UBL-2-1-AP-Invoice-Extract-Out for the message definition.
   4. Select your delivery method.
   5. Set the status to Active and click Save.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to create connections for these document and message definition combinations:
   1. Payables Invoice Life Cycle Status Report – Outbound document and the UBL-2-1-AP-Invoice-LifeCycle-Out message definition.
   2. Receivables Invoice Life Cycle Status Report-Outbound document and the UN-CDAR-1-0-AR-Invoice-LifeCycle-Out message definition.
   3. B2B Message Processing Result – Inbound document and the UBL-2-1-ConfirmationMessageReceipt-In message definition.

Enable Documents and Assign Connections to Your Outbound Documents

Follow these steps:

1. Select B2B Documents from the Task Panel and select Outbound.
2. Select the Internal and Self-Billing Payables Invoices – Outbound document. Set the Enabled field to Yes and select Configure Document Properties.
3. Enable the partner identification from payload document property group on the Configure Document Properties page and then select Edit Properties.
4. (Optional) The default path for obtaining the partner ID from the payload is displayed on the Properties page. You can edit it if necessary and add a path for the partner ID type. The Generic partner ID type is used if this value isn’t specified.
5. Click Submit to save any changes.
6. Select International and Self-Billing Payables Invoices – Outbound on the B2B Documents page.
7. Click Assign Connections to open the Assign Connections page. Select a default connection and set the status to Enabled and then click Submit.
8. Repeat steps 2 through 7 to enable a document, configure the document properties, and assign a default connection for the other two outbound documents:
   • Payables Invoice Life Cycle Status Report – Outbound document.
   • Receivables Invoice Life Cycle Status Report - Outbound document.
9. Enable the inbound document B2B Message Processing Result – Inbound. You don’t need to assign a connection to this inbound document, but you must have an active connection for it.
10. (Optional) Use the Manage Collaboration Messaging History task to review transactions for these messages and select the applicable document.