What Is SIREN — and Why Does It Matter for France E-Invoicing and E-Reporting?
SIREN (Système d'Identification du Répertoire des ENtreprises) is France's unique identification number for a company. This 9-digit number identifies legal entities in France and serves as your electronic address for exchanging e-invoices with your business partners as well as for submitting e-reports to the French authority under the new e-invoicing and e-reporting mandate.
A few important remarks:
- In the test system, you can only use a test SIREN number — not your real company's SIREN number.
- In production system, there are multiple ways to register your electronic address, including using only SIREN, SIREN_Suffix, SIREN_SIRET, or SIREN_SIRET_Routing Code. In test or qualification system, using only SIREN as the participant ID would be the only option for now.
How to Request SIREN Numbers for Testing?
The official step-by-step guidance is published (in French) by authority on the Chorus Pro portal:
Reference: Utiliser l'environnement de Qualification du Portail de Services
To summarize, the process works as follows:
- Register an account: On https://qualif.chorus-pro.gouv.fr, after registering with your email address, you will receive a confirmation email within a few minutes. Click the link in that email to create your password.
- Log in with your email and password: Once registration and password setup is complete.
- Requesting a Data mattress: After logging in, navigate to the tile Consult the data mattress (Consultation du matelas de données) as demonstrated below. Another important remark is that you need to select the standard data mattress for enterprises (not the ones for Approved Platform which is a different category).
Generate a test data mattress
4. Find the test SIREN number: After the csv file is generated, download it and find the test SIREN numbers. What you are looking for are the 4 test SIREN numbers that belong to private entity (as highlighted below).
Now that we get the test SIREN numbers, let's pick one of them 470221990 and use it to register a participant ID in SAP Document and Reporting Compliance, cloud edition.
Create a Participant ID for testing and activate it to receive electronic document in the Peppol network
For the detailed step-by-step instructions, refer to the below SAP Help documentation:
To test the France B2B e-invoicing and e-reporting mandate, you need to register participant using the Party ID type: 0225. The process is quite straightforward:
After registration is done, you could also check your test participant ID is registered in the qualification system of French public directory via this link: https://qas.facturation.chorus-pro.gouv.fr/annuaire/
The below link is to check your real SIREN in production system of French public directory: https://facturation.chorus-pro.gouv.fr/annuaire/.
Recommendation: Register Two SIRENs — One for Sending, One for Receiving
To test the full end-to-end flow — both outgoing invoice transmission and incoming invoice reception — you could register two participant IDs with two SIRENs. The recommended setup is:
- Company Code 1 (Sender): Configured with SIREN A. This company code will send e-invoices to Company Code 2.
- Company Code 2 (Receiver): Configured with SIREN B. This company code will receive e-invoices.
With this setup, Company Code 1 sends an invoice addressed to SIREN B, and Company Code 2 receives it — allowing you to validate both the outgoing and incoming flows in a single test cycle. The electronic invoices will appear in your Manage Electronic Documents app or eDocument Cockpit in your SAP system.
