The public invoicing portal (PPF, portail public de facturation) is the French State platform that runs the central directory of e-invoicing addresses and collects invoice and e-reporting data from approved platforms on behalf of the tax administration (DGFiP).
The public invoicing portal was first designed as a free invoicing platform for companies, the B2B equivalent of Chorus Pro for the public sector. In October 2024 the government abandoned that model. The PPF no longer issues, receives or stores invoices for companies, and every company must go through a partner dematerialization platform, now called an approved platform (PA).
The public invoicing portal now performs two functions:
- Central directory: records, for each company identified by its SIREN or SIRET, the approved platform on which it receives invoices, so that any supplier platform can route an invoice to the right destination
- Data concentrator: receives the tax data extracted from invoices and the e-reporting data, exclusively from approved platforms, and passes them to the DGFiP
The directory is the practical point of failure. A company whose directory entry points to the wrong platform, or to a single entity when invoices are addressed per site, receives invoices in the wrong place or not at all. Multi-entity groups need to map every SIRET that receives supplier invoices before the first supplier switches to structured sending.
The public invoicing portal handles tax visibility. It does not check whether an invoice is commercially correct. Phacet works downstream of that flow: once the approved platform delivers the invoice, supplier invoice validation compares it with the order, the receipt and the negotiated price before it is paid. The regulatory frame is summarised in the e-invoicing mandate entry.
