Animal shelter equipped with Son Espace Refuge
1 September 2026

E-invoicing: what really concerns your shelter

Almost all the information going around about the reform is aimed at commercial businesses. For an association, only one obligation matters: being able to receive your suppliers' invoices.

Son Espace Refuge connects your organisation with its SIRET in two minutes. It's included in the subscription, from €4.99/month, along with accounting and the tracking of your residents.

Get my shelter compliant What exactly concerns me

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Let's start with what doesn't concern you

It's most of what a shelter does day to day, and none of it is affected by the reform.

Your tax receipts for donations

A tax receipt is not an invoice within the meaning of the reform. No impact, neither on 1 September 2026 nor at later deadlines. You carry on exactly as you do today.

Your adoption fees

Adopters are private individuals: these documents fall under B2C and are permanently outside the scope. It's not a postponed deadline, it's an exclusion.

Issuing between professionals

If your shelter is not subject to VAT, like most associations, the B2B e-invoice issuing obligations generally don't concern you. Your association's accountant will settle your case in a minute.

What does concern you, on the other hand

Receiving an electronic invoice becomes mandatory for all organisations in France on 1 September 2026, whatever their legal status and size. From that date, your suppliers — food, vet, pharmacy, litter, equipment — will send their invoices through the official channel. Without a connection to an approved platform, they no longer reach you.

No invoice received no supporting document records to rebuild at year-end

For a volunteer treasurer, that's exactly the kind of work you'd rather avoid — and it usually lands at the worst time of the year.

Getting compliant takes two minutes

No IT project, no provider, no extra account to manage. Everything is done from the app.

1

You enter the association's SIRET

In the accounting section of Son Espace Refuge. It's the only information we ask for.

2

Your organisation is connected to an approved platform

We integrate SuperPDP, a partner e-invoicing platform (PDP). The account is created on the fly and your SIRET is registered in the official directory. No external form, no extra login to pass around between volunteers.

3

Your supplier invoices arrive in the app

And they automatically pre-fill an expense: amount, VAT, supplier, detailed lines. That's that much less data entry for the person who keeps your accounts, and expense tracking that stays up to date on its own.

Understand the reform in detail

Let's talk about cost, frankly

We'd rather tell you here than have you find out in September: connecting requires a paid subscription. Every document that goes through the official platform is billed to us, in either direction, and we can't absorb that on the free plan.

The first tier that makes you compliant is €4.99/month, i.e. less than €60 a year for all your compliance, the association's accounting and the tracking of your residents. A subscription to an e-invoicing platform on its own often costs more, and only handles the invoice.

Plan Price E-invoicing Animals per species
Free 0 € Not included — not compliant 2
Petit refuge
THE SIMPLEST WAY TO BE COMPLIANT		 €4.99/month 50 invoices/month
sent and received		 5
Moyen refuge €14.99/month 200 invoices/month 10
Grand refuge €29.99/month 1000 invoices/month Unlimited

The monthly quota is shared between sending and receiving: every document that goes through the platform counts towards it. Two months free with annual billing. No commitment.

Need a written summary to present to your committee or board? Write to us from the contact page and we'll prepare it for you. We know that, in an association, a subscription decision isn't made alone in front of a screen.

Get my shelter compliant

If you invoice a town hall or a département

Under an agreement or a grant with a service in return, Chorus Pro has already been mandatory since 2020. Son Espace Refuge generates these invoices in Factur-X format, the one the French state platform expects; uploading to Chorus Pro remains up to you, as automatic routing to the public sector is not yet supported, unlike the business-to-business channel.

And you get all your shelter management as well

That's the difference with an e-invoicing-only solution: for the same budget, you also replace the binders, the foster family spreadsheet and the residents' paper sheets.

Foster families

Who is housing which animal, since when, with what care follow-up. No more shared spreadsheet that's never up to date.

Adoptions

Each animal's journey up to its adoption, and the related documents, all in one place.

Complete accounting

Expenses, invoices, accounting exports (CSV, Excel, FEC) for your treasurer or accountant.

The record follows the animal to its adopter

The adopter installs Son Espace Santé, the free app, and gets the complete health record: vaccines, treatments, neutering, identification. The shelter's history is no longer lost on adoption day.

Your adoption website

Animals up for adoption presented on a page you can share directly on your social media.

On all your devices

iPhone, iPad, Android and browser. Your volunteers work from their own phones, in real time.

Frequently asked questions

Are tax receipts for donations affected?

No. A tax receipt is not an invoice within the meaning of the reform. No impact, neither on 1 September 2026 nor at later deadlines.

Are my adoption fees affected?

No. Adopters are private individuals: these documents fall under B2C and are permanently outside the scope.

Is an association that isn't subject to VAT affected?

For issuing invoices between professionals, the obligations are reduced and generally don't concern association-run shelters. However, the obligation to be able to receive applies to all organisations on 1 September 2026, whatever their legal or tax status.

Is connecting chargeable?

Yes. Every document that goes through the official platform is billed, in either direction, and the free plan doesn't give access to it. The first tier that makes you compliant is €4.99/month, and also includes accounting and resident management.

What if my shelter invoices a town hall or a département?

Chorus Pro has already been mandatory since 2020 for public bodies. The invoice is generated in the Factur-X format the platform expects, and you upload it yourself: automatic routing to the public sector is not yet supported.

How long does connecting take?

About two minutes. You enter the association's SIRET, confirm the connection to SuperPDP, and you're done. No installation, no account to create elsewhere.

This page sets out our reading of the reform and is not an official source. For the reference text and the up-to-date timetable, see impots.gouv.fr.

You don't have much time left, but very little to do

Download Son Espace Refuge, enter the association's SIRET, confirm the connection. Your organisation is compliant, and you get its management software as a bonus.

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