A Paris brand since 1948
Talika puts "depuis 1948" under its logo, and the storefront sells bubble masks, hair care, lash care and a light-therapy mask. The language is French, delivery is free from 49 euros, and the menu has pages for duos and trios, new arrivals and a map of stores that carry the brand.
Beauty orders mix several small items. Masks in multiples, a serum, something for the lashes. The invoice lists each line with its own quantity and price, and the customer checks them against the box.
French VAT, English labels
Cosmetics take the standard 20% VAT rate in France. The invoice shows that rate, the amount of tax and the totals before and after it, next to the seller's SIRET and VAT number, a unique invoice number and the date.
The storefront also lists a food supplement among its hair products, and food supplements take the reduced 5.5% rate. A basket that mixes it with a serum therefore carries two rates, which have to appear on separate lines. Two rates, two lines. The sample on this page sticks to cosmetics, so a single 20% line applies.
Talika issues its invoices in English even though the storefront is French. The template labels are translated, so the buyer reads Invoice, Payment Address, Items and Grand Total, while the tax line keeps its French name, TVA. Language is one setting in the app and it applies to every document the store sends. A merchant who picks English accepts a small mismatch with the storefront in return for one wording across all documents.
Invoice plus packing slip
Talika has used Avada PDF Invoice since 2021. Invoices use the Blue Invoice template in English, amounts follow the store currency, and VAT and tax fields are switched on. A Blue packing slip template covers the sheet that goes into the parcel, so the invoice and the packing slip share one visual style.
SFTP and FTP export is enabled as well. Documents can leave the app as files, next to the PDFs.
We rendered the sample here from that setup, and only the brand name is real. The address, SIRET and VAT numbers, customer, products and amounts are invented. It lists three product lines, 78 euros before tax, 15.60 euros of TVA at 20% and a total of 93.60 euros. Delivery is free in line with the storefront's 49 euro threshold, so no shipping line shows.
Five years, 41,000 documents
The app has sent more than 41,000 documents since 2021, all of them delivered as files over SFTP, five years of documents on a single template. A reviewer from the store gave five stars on the Shopify App Store and wrote that the app does its job perfectly, with good customer service and new features every week. The review appears below this article.
Try it on your store
Decide which language your invoice should speak before the first one goes out. Install Avada PDF Invoice, choose the language, and place a test order to see the labels and the French VAT line together.