Electronic Invoicing 2026: Prepare Your E-Commerce Workflows

With just a few weeks to go before the first deadlines, e-commerce businesses need to turn a regulatory reform into an operational action plan. This 30-minute webinar will help you identify the affected workflows, the priorities to address, and the mistakes to avoid so you can move forward without overcomplicating your organization.

Electronic invoicing in 2026 isn’t just about your accounting department. For an e-commerce business, it also affects orders, B2B and B2C sales, marketplaces, management tools, and data flow between teams.

• Why the reform directly affects your operations
• Get Your Compliance in Order Before the Deadline

As the September 2026 deadlines approach, the real question is no longer whether your company should prepare. The focus must now shift to determining which workflows are affected, which tools will need to be updated, and how to ensure that compliance does not result in additional manual tasks.

To help you understand this better, Shippingbo is hosting a 30-minute webinar with Haas Avocats on Thursday, August 27, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.

Why the reform directly affects your operations

An invoice is never generated in isolation from the rest of your organization. It is based on data from the order, the customer, the sales channel, the payment, and the shipment.

In an e-commerce business, this information often flows between multiple systems: CMS, marketplaces, ERP, accounting software, order management tools, and logistics platforms.

When these tools don’t communicate well, discrepancies quickly arise. Incomplete customer data, an incorrectly classified order, or information re-entered manually can cause a billing error or complicate data transmission.

The reform therefore requires e-commerce businesses to look beyond the final document. They must understand how their information is created, controlled, and transmitted throughout the sales cycle.

The stakes are even higher in an omnichannel organization. B2B, B2C, and marketplace workflows do not always follow the same rules. They may involve multiple teams, multiple tools, and different billing processes.

Compliance thus becomes a legal, accounting, and operational issue.

Understanding Your Obligations and Deadlines

The first risk is launching a project without clearly defining its scope.

Which transactions are affected? What information will need to be provided? Where are invoices currently generated? Which tool contains the reference data? How do you distinguish between your B2B, B2C, and marketplace transactions?

These issues must be addressed before modifying your information system or adding a new tool.

During the webinar, Hugues Payen, an attorney at Haas Avocats, will help you understand the obligations applicable to e-commerce businesses and the deadlines to anticipate.

The goal is not to go over the entire reform. It is to provide you with the necessary guidance to identify what actually applies to your company and avoid mistakes during the preparation process.

This will allow you to distinguish between priority actions and issues that can be addressed later.

Set up your workflows without overburdening your organization

Compliance should not become a series of data exports, Excel spreadsheets, and manual checks.

If your teams already have to compare orders from the CMS with data from marketplaces and then ask the accounting department to correct any discrepancies, the reform is likely to exacerbate an existing vulnerability.

The first step is to map out your data’s journey, from order entry to billing. This analysis helps identify data re-entry, missing information, and tools that aren’t communicating properly.

It also makes it possible to determine which system should serve as the reference source for each piece of data.

Centralization plays a key role here. The more orders are scattered across multiple interfaces, the more difficult it becomes to ensure the consistency of the information sent to the billing and accounting systems.

Rayane Ouahab, Head of Product at Shippingbo, will discuss the operational impacts of the reform and the tools available to streamline data flow, particularly Shippingbo Invoice.

In 30 minutes, you’ll learn how to identify the relevant workflows, pinpoint the main pain points, and develop an action plan without disrupting your teams.

Get Your Compliance in Order Before the Deadline

Waiting until the last few weeks exposes your company to a twofold risk: having to rush to address compliance issues and implementing temporary solutions that will complicate your operations in the long run.

This webinar will help you get a head start and align your e-commerce, operations, accounting, and IT teams around a shared plan.

Shippingbo helps e-commerce businesses centralize and manage their orders, inventory, shipments, and logistics workflows. Better-structured and more reliable operational data makes it easier for accounting and management tools to process that data.

Register for our webinar below:

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FAQ

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Will this apply to all companies starting in September 2026?➖

All businesses must be able to receive electronic invoices starting September 1, 2026. Small and micro-enterprises must issue them and submit their e-reporting data no later than September 1, 2027.

Is a PDF sent by email considered an electronic invoice?➕

No. An electronic invoice must be issued, transmitted, and received in electronic form. It must also contain structured data that can be processed automatically by software.

Which e-commerce channels should be prioritized?➕

In particular, companies must distinguish between their B2B transactions, B2C sales, and international operations. These data flows do not always follow the same transmission mechanisms. Mapping them makes it possible to identify the available data, the tools involved, and any instances of data re-entry.

What will I learn during the webinar?➕

The webinar will outline the requirements and deadlines you need to know, their impact on e-commerce workflows, and the first steps you can take to prepare for compliance without overburdening your operations.

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Glossary

Electronic Invoice

An invoice issued, transmitted, and received in a digital format containing structured data.

E-reporting

Submission to the government of certain data related to transactions that are not directly related to electronic invoicing, as well as, in some cases, payment data.

Approved Platform

A state-approved specialized platform used to issue and receive electronic invoices or submit data required by government agencies.

B2B Feed

Transactions between two companies.

B2C Workflow

Sales made by a company to individual consumers.

Omnichannel

An organizational structure in which orders and data flow in a coordinated manner across multiple sales channels, such as the e-commerce website, marketplaces, physical stores, or B2B.