Processes and tools

For companies, it's customary to invoice as work progresses, rather than once the site has been completed, in order to pay employees and stock up on materials. However, issuing progress invoices can quickly become complex and a source of tension between the company and its customers. The solution? Automate the invoicing process to save time and avoid disputes!

If there's one scourge every company knows about, it's late payment and non-payment! And when they accumulate, cash flow is threatened. Faced with this, companies need to improve their organization or their debt collection processes. In order to relieve the burden on the accounting department, dematerializing invoices using a receivables tracking solution is now essential.

Expected - even desired - by many companies, the postponement of the general introduction of electronic invoicing to September 1, 2026 should not be synonymous with complacency on the part of stakeholders. Rather, it represents an opportunity and time to deploy the system more serenely. While a great deal of work has gone into getting companies to understand what e-invoicing is, the subject of e-reporting needs to be better grasped by companies, as it complements electronic invoicing. In this article, we take a look at the objective, the companies concerned and the type of data transmitted.

The ELAN law of November 23, 2018 has profoundly reshaped the social housing sector, notably by encouraging home ownership by tenants. In doing so, the text gives social landlords the opportunity to put up for sale properties, which they previously owned, becoming de facto co-owners in their own right for the remaining rental units. As social landlords and co-owners, social landlords must manage and pay their calls for funds through a professional or voluntary syndic. With thousands of social housing units, how can these social landlords manage the massive influx of calls for funds? The solution: dematerialize calls for funds. Here's how.

A company's purchasing process is similar to the classic customer journey. It comprises all the actions that follow on from one another to lead to the purchase of a good or service. It is part of a strategy that takes into account needs assessment, supplier selection, centralized purchasing, negotiations and payment management. In the purchasing process, there are two concepts: Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P), which have the particularity of mirroring each other, yet being different. Here's how it works.

Many companies are faced with a dilemma: should they invest in on-premise software, which has proven its worth over many years, or opt for cloud hosting and put their trust in a SaaS model? To help you choose, here's a comparative study, with the pros and cons of each solution!

Phishing, ransomware, fake supplier fraud... It's essential to be fully aware of the risks in order to better protect against them and choose appropriate solutions, such as those offered by our Partner Dematerialization Platforms (PDP), which have SecNumCloud qualification and ISO 27001 certification.

B2B companies will be obliged to switch to electronic invoicing from 2026 onwards (postponed from 2024). As chartered accountants, you are the trusted advisors of company directors, and therefore in the best position to guide them in the dematerialization of their invoices. As the deadlines approach, more and more of your clients are asking questions about their choice of platform. While some may have already opted for the Public Billing Portal (PPF), others prefer the more functional PDP alternative. To help them make the best possible choice, here's some advice you can give them.

Do you know what supplier sourcing is? Beneath this fashionable anglicism lies a key step that can have a strong impact on your company's results. We tell you more about what supplier sourcing is and the key points to make a good sourcing.

Have you ever heard of Factur-X? No ? Well, if you work in the French B2B market, you should hear about it soon. Indeed, it should quickly take the lion's share of the formats retained within the framework of the generalisation of electronic invoicing!

The 2020 Finance Law will force all companies to exchange invoices with each other in electronic format from 2026. While many have already embarked on the dematerialization of their invoicing, the most widespread solution today is LAD/RAD, which will be rendered obsolete by the new law. Discover 4 reasons why it's better to abandon these tools in favor of electronic invoicing.

Accessible everywhere, all the time, SaaS software has many advantages. Discover here all the advantages and disadvantages of this solution and the questions to ask yourself before adopting it.