INVOICER IN FRENCH PRO

The government sat up a prior consultation involving the AIFE, the Directorate General of Public Finances and the Directorate of Legal Affairs of the economic and financial ministries. First, before the implementation of Chorus Pro, consultations were conducted following the 2014 government’s decision to develop electronic invoicing. Three phases have to be distinguished here. What collaborations have been set up before and during the implementation of Chorus Pro? Who are the actors that are associated with the steering and further developments of the e-invoicing platform?

We asked Alexandre Streicher to provide some thoughts and insights based on his experience of the collaboration in and implementation of Chorus Pro:

INVOICER IN FRENCH PRO

The portal includes a chat bot – ClaudIA – who answers users’ questions and a “ Chorus Pro Community” which disseminates information, trains users and exchanges good practices about e-invoicing. The expected benefits of Chorus Pro are threefold: 1) Improving payment time by speeding up the invoice transmission process, 2) Reducing printing and mailing costs, and 3) Enhancing trust in state providers by ensuring greater transparency through users’ monitoring of the payment process in real time. Chorus Pro is connected to the French State Financial Information System – named Chorus – when it is used for invoices to be paid by the central State administrations (see the TROPICO case study about the French FIS). With Streicher, we discussed the collaborative dimension of the implementation of Chorus Pro, how e-invoicing was used by companies and administration during the COVID-19 crisis, and how it can be evaluated.Ĭhorus Pro is a digital platform through which providers of goods and services to the public sector have to submit their invoices. Streicher also serves as an expert on the TROPICO External Advisory Board. For this blog post, we interviewed Alexandre Streicher, a Manager at AIFE (the French Agency for State Financial Information Technology) about Chorus Pro, a French e-invoicing system. TROPICO involves research on digital administration (or e-administration) in several European countries.

Invoicer in french