French invoice lifecycle statuses (CDAR)
A new frenchInvoicingCdar document type lets you send and receive French invoice lifecycle statuses, such as received, approved, refused, or paid.
French regulated invoicing requires trading partners to report back on the invoices they receive. Recommand now supports these lifecycle status messages (CDAR) as a first-class document type.
What changed
- New
frenchInvoicingCdardocument type: Send a lifecycle status for an invoice you received through the send document endpoint, the same way you send a message level response. - Full status set: Statuses cover the French lifecycle codes, from
200(submitted) through205(approved),210(refused) and212(collected), with the coded rejection reasons (DOUBLON,TX_TVA_ERR,NON_CONFORME, …) and an optional free-text note. - Incoming statuses: CDAR messages you receive are parsed, stored and shown alongside your other documents, and are delivered through your existing webhooks and notifications.
Why this matters
Reporting the status of an invoice back to its sender is mandatory inside the French e-invoicing perimeter. Handling it as a document type means you can send and receive these statuses without touching the underlying XML.
What you need to do
Nothing if you do not exchange French regulated documents. Otherwise, send a frenchInvoicingCdar document for the invoices you receive and process, and handle incoming ones in your webhook the way you already handle message level responses.
When you receive a French invoice, Recommand automatically sends the 202 (received) and 203 (made available) statuses back to the sender; you still send the later processing statuses yourself.