SAP Document and Reporting Compliance, cloud edition is a cloud service running on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). It is a centralized service that allows your business system to exchange electronic documents and submit reports to the tax authorities. Think of it as the following – your business system creates electronic documents and sends them to the cloud edition. Acting as the approved platform (plateforme agréée, PA) for France, the cloud edition then submits the electronic documents and reports to the Public Invoicing Portal (Portail Public de Facturation, PPF), which serves as the intermediary with the tax authorities, and also exchanges electronic documents with your business partners via the Peppol network.
To use the cloud edition, you perform some configuration steps. Let me guide you through it.
Note: Currently, you can only connect with the qualification system of the tax authorities in France. For that, you use the test environment of the cloud edition. This blog post reflects the current state of the solution, in the date of posting. The solution is being continuously updated to reflect the whole legal requirement. Always refer to the SAP Help Portal for the latest information.
Step 1: Initial Setup
Before the integration can happen, you need an active subscription for SAP Document and Reporting compliance, cloud edition, in your SAP BTP subaccount. When setting up your subaccount, be aware that due to government legal requirements, the new process for France is available only in the Europe (Rot) – SAP EU Access (cf-eu02) region, where data is processed on SAP-operated infrastructure within Europe.
This should not be confused with the previous France solution that uses only the Peppol Exchange process and is available in all regions.
To be able to create a subaccount in EU02, your global BTP account must be entitled to “EU Access”. If you are entitled to “EU Access”, EU02 is available under the provider “SAP Cloud Infrastructure” when creating a subaccount. If you are not yet entitled to “EU Access”, contact your SAP Account Executive.
When setting up the subaccount, if you are integrating your business system with the cloud edition for the first time, the SAP Help Portal documentation progressively instructs you on the steps that you need to perform.
If you've already integrated your business system with the cloud edition but want to activate the new process for France that is only available in EU02 – which is a different region from what you already have -, you create a new subaccount and go through the integration steps again. In this scenario, specific configuration must be done during the integration steps. I will emphasize this later in this blog post but, for reference, for SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, this involves the RFC connection. For SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, this configuration is done when creating the communication system and the communication arrangement.
For more information on the detailed steps, see Initial Setup.
Step 2: Activate Process
For France, you activate the E-Invoices and E-Reports (France) process. The system automatically activates the Peppol Exchange process in the background, you don’t need to activate it separately.
For more information on the detailed steps, see Activating Processes.
Step 3: Integrate Your Business System with the Cloud Edition
Depending on your business system, you follow different integration steps. Under the Integration section of the SAP Help Portal, you follow the steps for Integrating All Other Processes and Countries/Regions with
For the France-specific scenario, there are a few special details I would like for you to pay attention to, as follows:
- You need to create two service bindings for the service instance, one of type Other Processes and one of type Peppol Exchange.
- When creating the service binding of type Peppol Exchange, ALWAYS use OAuth 2.0 as the authentication type.
- When creating the RFC connection, you use the endpoint drccApiUrl from the service binding of type Other Processes.
- For SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, or SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition: If you were already using the cloud edition in another region and are activating France in EU02, you have created a new subaccount. In this case, while going through the integration steps, instead of creating and activating a standard RFC (because it already exists for a different region), you create and activate an RFC connection for France.
- For SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: If you were already using the cloud edition in another region and are activating France in EU02, you have created a new subaccount. In this case, while going through the integration steps, instead of creating a standard communication system and communication arrangement (because they already exist for a different region), you create an additional communication system and communication arrangement for France.
- The section called Establishing Connection from Cloud Edition to Business System is mandatory for France.
Step 4: Enable the Connection Between the Cloud Edition and the Public Invoicing Portal
To be able to exchange your electronic documents, you now need to connect the cloud edition with the Public Invoicing Portal. The French process is based on the 5-corner model, which combines Peppol network and the Public Invoicing Portal. For that reason, you follow steps that are very specific to France, as follows:
- You create and register a participant for your company. See Managing Participants for E-Invoices and E-Reports (France).
- You create a rule collection to define the default destination to which the cloud edition sends your received electronic documents. See
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Aleshane Ghisleri
