NomaUBL

French e-invoicing reform · 2026 wave

Bridge any ERP to the
French e-invoicing reform.

NomaUBL is the unified platform that sits between your accounting system and the Plateforme Agréée. It generates compliant UBL from any ERP, pre-validates every invoice against XSD, Schematron and the French CTC extension, transmits to any approved platform, and tracks every invoice through its full lifecycle — submission, dispute, payment, cancellation.

📦 JD Edwards · SAP · NetSuite · Custom ERP✅ EN 16931 + extended-ctc-fr🔌 Pluggable Plateforme Agréée🛠 Self-service operations

Configure your environment →Tour the application

The challenge — and why a PA alone is not enough

The French Réforme de la Facturation Électronique (RFE) makes structured e-invoicing mandatory for all B2B transactions. Companies must:

Generate structured UBL invoices that comply with EN 16931 + the French CTC extension.
Transmit them to their customer's Plateforme Agréée — the new state-supervised invoice rail.
Declare B2C, intra-EU and out-of-scope transactions for VAT through the e-reporting flow.
Track every invoice's lifecycle until it is paid, disputed, refused or cancelled.

A Plateforme Agréée handles the transmission rail — but not the upstream pipeline. The accounting team is still left to produce a compliant UBL document from a non-compliant ERP output, detect rejections before submission, route by document type, and operate disputes, retries, payment notifications and audit trails.

Without pre-validation

Rejection cycles — and you still pay for them

A Plateforme Agréée bills per invoice transmitted — accepted or rejected. Every Schematron error caught downstream means a rejected invoice, a manual fix, a re-submission, a delay in cash collection — and a transmission charge. Pre-validation eliminates the round-trip and its cost.

Without an operations layer

Lifecycle blind spots

Refusals, disputes and recovery codes require finance-team action. The PA records them — your operations don't see them.

Without source flexibility

Vendor lock-in

An ERP-specific add-on ties you to one vendor. A custom build ties you to one team. Both fail when the regulation evolves.

What NomaUBL is

NomaUBL is a single-tenant, on-premise platform that owns the entire pipeline between your accounting system and the Plateforme Agréée. It is the layer where invoices are generated, validated, sent, tracked and recovered — independent of which ERP produced them and which PA accepts them.

📥 Source systems

JD Edwards

BIP · archive · FTP

SAP

IDoc · spool · file

NetSuite

SuiteScript · file

Custom ERP

file · API · DB

→

✨

NomaUBL

The unified e-invoicing layer

📄

Generate UBL

✅

Pre-validate

📊

Track lifecycle

🛠

Operate

📡 Plateforme Agréée

PA / PDP

Configurable backend — any approved PA

→ E-invoicing

🏢

Buyer

via the buyer's PA

⇢ E-reporting

🏛

Tax authority

via the PA

🔌

PA-agnostic

Switch your Plateforme Agréée without rebuilding your e-invoicing stack — the connector is configuration, not code.

📦

ERP-agnostic

JDE today, SAP tomorrow, a divestiture next year — a new template plugs in without touching the rest.

🇫🇷

French CTC ready

EN 16931 + extended-ctc-fr profile, BAR routing, e-reporting tracks, and the Cadre de facturation embedded.

🏠

On-premise

Single-tenant deployment. UBL files, history and credentials remain inside your perimeter — and survive a PA outage.

The full pipeline, on one platform

A single NomaUBL deployment covers every step from the raw ERP output to a tracked, paid invoice:

📥

Extract

archive · FTP/SFTP · BIP

🔄

Transform

XSLT · BIP RTF→XSL · burst

📄

Generate UBL

EN 16931 + CTC-FR

✅

Validate

XSD · Schematron · rules

📤

Submit

any Plateforme Agréée

📊

Track

lifecycle · disputes · payments

🛠

Operate

set status · resend · email · credit note

Step	What NomaUBL does
Extract	Pulls source documents from JDE BIP Print Queue, JDE archive directories, FTP/SFTP servers or local file system. Polls automatically or on demand.
Transform	Applies XSLT pre-processing, converts BI Publisher RTF templates to XSL, and bursts multi-document spools by configurable burst keys.
Generate UBL	Produces structured UBL 2.1 documents using template-aware defaults: parties, scheme IDs, BAR routing, business-process types, allowance/charge categories, French legal mentions.
Validate	Runs XSD + Schematron + the French CTC extension before any document leaves your perimeter. Surfaces every error, warning and recovery hint inline.
Submit	Sends to the configured Plateforme Agréée through a pluggable connector. The PA backend is configuration — swap it without code changes.
Track	Polls the PA for status updates and persists the full lifecycle: submitted, received, paid, disputed, refused, rejected — with reasons, expected actions, and timestamps.
Operate	Surfaces the right action at the right step: resend, email PDF to customer, mark payment received, issue credit note, set status, cancel accounting — driven by configurable API connectors.

One platform, every source system

NomaUBL is built around a template model: each source produces XML, NomaUBL maps it through templates, and every other module operates on the resulting UBL — regardless of which ERP fed it. Adding a new source is a configuration task, not a re-architecture.

🅹

JD Edwards

Native integration with the JDE BIP Print Queue (F9563110 / F95630 / F95631), the archive directory and FTP/SFTP downloads.

BIP extractArchiveFTP/SFTPRTF templates

🅂

SAP

IDoc, spool or file-based extracts feed NomaUBL through the directory or FTP channels. Templates map SAP fields to UBL semantics.

DirectoryFTP/SFTPBukrs mapping

🄽

NetSuite

SuiteScript exports drop XML into the watched directory; templates handle subsidiary, tax-code and currency mapping.

DirectoryFTP/SFTPSubsidiary mapping

🅒

Custom ERP

Any system that produces XML, posts JSON to the API or writes a CSV to a watched directory becomes a source by adding one template.

HTTP APIDirectoryFTP/SFTPUBL passthrough

Six pillars, one product

📥

Extract from anywhere

Connect to any ERP through a directory watcher, an FTP/SFTP poller, the JDE BIP Print Queue, or a JSON HTTP endpoint. Schedule batches, run on demand, or stream invoice-by-invoice.

📌 Extract module · Fetch Input

📄

Generate compliant UBL

Templates map source fields to UBL 2.1, fill in the French CTC extension, apply scheme IDs, BAR routing, business-process codes, allowances and the Cadre de facturation. AUTO mode resolves the right path per document type.

📌 Process Document · UBL Defaults

✅

Pre-validate, before the PA

XSD + Schematron + the French CTC profile run inside NomaUBL. Every error, warning and recovery hint is surfaced inline — the PA never sees a knowingly broken document, and rejection cycles stop costing you days.

📌 Validate · Process Document

📤

Submit & track on any PA

The PA backend is a configuration. Submit, retrieve lifecycle statuses, persist disputes, refusals, payment notifications. Switch your Plateforme Agréée without rebuilding the rest of your stack.

📌 Import · Retrieve Statuses

🛠

Operate the lifecycle

Resend, set status, email PDF, mark payment received, issue a credit note, cancel accounting — the right action surfaces at the right step. Every event is logged, append-only, audit-ready.

📌 E-Invoicing · Integration Errors

⚙️

Govern with self-service config

Reference lists, document types, suppliers, BAR routing, payment codes, VAT categories, currency mappings — all maintained from the UI. Finance owns the rules, IT owns the platform.

📌 Configuration · File Versions

NomaUBL vs the alternatives

A Plateforme Agréée is required by the regulation — but it is not the whole solution. The choices below show why NomaUBL is the natural complement.

Capability

PA only

Custom build

NomaUBL

UBL generation from any ERP

—

1 ERP at a time

✓ JDE · SAP · NS · custom

Pre-submission validation (XSD + Schematron + CTC-FR)

—

Custom rules

✓ Built-in, updated

Lifecycle tracking + recovery actions

Read-only

To build

✓ Operations UI

BAR routing & e-reporting tracks

Per-PA

To build

✓ Configuration

Self-service ops (suppliers, BAR, defaults)

—

IT-owned

✓ Finance-owned

PA-portability (switch without rebuild)

Vendor-locked

Re-write

✓ Connector swap

Time to first compliant invoice

+ pipeline

6–12 months

✓ Days–weeks

Audit trail (append-only lifecycle)

PA-side

To build

✓ Local + signed

The right pairing is NomaUBL + a Plateforme Agréée — not one or the other. NomaUBL takes care of everything upstream of the PA and around the PA; the PA handles the regulated transmission rail. Together, they cover the regulation end to end.

A day in the life

Different teams hit the platform for different reasons. NomaUBL is built so each persona has a clear, narrow surface.

💼

Finance & Accounting

Day-to-day invoice operations

📨 Send invoices

Edit UBL · Resend · Email PDF

⚖️ Handle disputes

207 → credit note · 213 → re-issue

💰 Mark payments

Status 205 · API connectors

🛠

IT & Integration

Reliable batch + observability

⚡ Run scheduled batches

fetch-all · cron · -serve scheduler

🚨 Watch errors

Integration Errors · logs

📦 Promote configurations

File Versions · package · import

🏛

Compliance & Audit

Append-only audit trail

🔍 Inspect lifecycle

History tab · append-only

🧭 Trace any invoice

UBL Reference · status codes

📚 Govern reference data

Statuses · reason codes · BAR rules

Persona	Primary surface	Outcome
Finance & Accounting	Application tab — Dashboard, E-Invoicing, E-Reporting	Daily invoice ops without leaving NomaUBL: send, dispute, recover, follow up.
IT & Integration	Sync, Processing, Management tabs — and the CLI	Reliable batch operations, observable errors, deployable configurations.
Compliance & Audit	References tab + History on every invoice	A complete, signed audit trail of every state and decision — local, queryable, append-only.

Why teams choose NomaUBL

Faster to compliant

Days to weeks, not quarters

Templates, defaults, BAR routing and validation rules ship out of the box. A new ERP is one template away — not a six-month project.

Fewer rejections

Errors caught before the PA

Pre-submission validation eliminates the round-trip: invoices either go through cleanly, or fail loud and fixable before any external system sees them.

Lower TCO

One platform, every entity

One licence covers JDE + SAP + NetSuite + custom — no per-ERP module, no separate skill set, no parallel pipelines to maintain.

Lock-in-free

Your PA, your call

The Plateforme Agréée connector is configuration, not code. Renegotiate, switch, multi-source — your e-invoicing stack moves with you.

Get started in four steps

Install

Lay out an environment

Run java -jar nomaubl.jar -install /opt/nomaubl/demo to provision the directory tree, embedded XSL framework and starter config.

→ Command Line

Configure

Connect your data

Edit config.json to point at your DB, ERP source, Plateforme Agréée and SMTP server. Initialize the database from the UI.

→ Configuration

Map

Set defaults & routing

Suppliers, scheme IDs, BAR routing, payment codes, VAT categories, document types — once configured, every UBL is generated correctly without per-invoice fixes.

→ UBL Defaults

Run

Process & track

Start nomaubl.sh start <env>, drop a sample invoice into input/, watch it flow through extract → UBL → validate → submit → track in real time.

→ Application