Invoice issued by a third party, payment intermediary (e.g. on Marketplace), without a billing mandate between the payment intermediary and the supplier
French Use Case n°17a:
Invoice payable to a third-party payment intermediary (e.g. Marketplace)
Figure 18: Invoice payable to a third party, payment intermediary
Caption:
F1: The "already paid" invoice issued by the supplier
F2: The "already paid" commission/fee invoice issued by the payment intermediary
The specific characteristics of the data and associated management rules are :
Billing frame "Deposit of a previously paid invoice".
Due date equals payment date
Amount paid (BT-113) equal to total invoice amount
Amount payable (BT-115) equal to 0
In the F2 invoice, the third party who has already paid the invoice (he pays himself) can be entered in the "INVOICE PAYER" block (EXT-FR-FE-BG-02).
F1 : third party = PAYER
F2: third party = SELLER = PAYER
The specific features of the life cycle or process are :
Transmission of flow 1 (F1) and payment e-reporting by the supplier's platform
Transmission of flow 1 (F2) and payment e-reporting by the payment intermediary's platform
The steps in case 17a are :
Step
Stage name
Responsible player
Description
1
Online ordering and payment
Buyer
The buyer places an order on the Internet and makes the payment.
2
Receipt of order amount
Payment intermediary
The intermediary collects the full amount of the buyer's order
3
Creation of already paid F1 invoice for order amount
Supplier
The supplier's PDP 2 forwards the F1 invoice (flow 2) to the professional taxable buyer's PDP 3, which makes it available to the buyer. At the same time, it transmits the invoice data to the PPF.
4
Provision of F1
Buyer
5
Return of supplier's share
Payment intermediary
The intermediary's PDP 1 transmits the amount (quota) to the supplier's PDP 2.
6
Collection for the amount net of F1 fees
Supplier
When the supplier is paid by the payment intermediary, it updates F1's "cashed" status for the full amount.
Step 7 only applies to the supply of services, excluding the VAT option on debits.
7
Status update
F1 "cashed in" for its full amount
Supplier
8
Create an invoice for expenses/commission already paid F2
Payment intermediary
The intermediary's PDP 1 forwards the fee/commission invoice already paid (F2 - Flow 2) to the supplier and made available to the supplier by his PDP. At the same time, the intermediary's PDP transmits the invoice data to the PPF.
9
Availability F2
Supplier
10
Status update
"F2 "cashed in
Payment intermediary
The payment intermediary's PDP 1 transmits the payment data from the commission/intermediation invoice to the PPF.
Step 10 applies only to services, excluding the option
Background
Invoice issued by a third party, payment intermediary (e.g. on Marketplace), without a billing mandate between the payment intermediary and the supplier
French Use Case n°17a: Invoice payable to a third-party payment intermediary (e.g. Marketplace)
Figure 18: Invoice payable to a third party, payment intermediary
Caption:
The specific characteristics of the data and associated management rules are :
F1 : third party = PAYER
F2: third party = SELLER = PAYER
The specific features of the life cycle or process are :
The steps in case 17a are :
Step
Stage name
Description
3
Supplier
When the supplier is paid by the payment intermediary, it updates F1's "cashed" status for the full amount.
Step 7 only applies to the supply of services, excluding the VAT option on debits.
7
Status update
F1 "cashed in" for its full amount
Supplier
8
10
Status update
"F2 "cashed in
Payment intermediary
The payment intermediary's PDP 1 transmits the payment data from the commission/intermediation invoice to the PPF.
Step 10 applies only to services, excluding the option
VAT on debits.
NOTE: The text/pictures of this use case no. 17a were taken from the French government site! The text was extracted from V2.3 - deepl English DOCX and any pictures were taken from V2.2 - original English PDF)