OpenFlyers is preparing to become a "Compatible Solution" by integrating an "Approved Platform" to automate the retrieval of your supplier invoices, enabling each of our customers to "be able to receive electronic invoices" from 1 September 2026 in accordance with the law.
On 1 September 2026, all entities subject to VAT, as well as non-profit organisations engaged in ancillary profit-making activities, must be able to receive electronic invoices from their suppliers.
Unless there are changes to the association form (December 2025 version) published by the French Public Finances Ministry, this reform affects almost all customer organisations using OpenFlyers.
While this obligation is obvious for commercial organisations, the note concerning associations specifies an obligation for flying clubs offering introductory flights. These flights, also known as ‘discovery flights’, can be considered commercial activities that do not compete with the private sector, but whose profit-making nature, even if marginal, triggers the regulatory obligation.
OpenFlyers has anticipated this obligation and has already found a "State-approved platform" that is both reliable and reasonably priced. OpenFlyers' goal is to be a "compatible solution", to use the official term. We will be working hard over the coming months to turn this legal constraint into an opportunity: further automating accounting data entry and saving our client organisations valuable time.
Thus, following the interfacing with bank payment terminals (TPE) in 2010, the launch of banking aggregation in 2023 and the interfacing with HelloAsso in August 2025, the first half of 2026 will be devoted to the deployment of a feature dedicated to the repatriation of supplier invoices.
It should be noted that from 1 September 2027, the obligation will be extended to the issuance of electronic invoices: we will have the opportunity to return to this subject shortly.
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