Tubes, capsules and flavours
Hedonist Labs sells food supplements and effervescent drink tablets, made in France according to its storefront. The shop runs in French. The menu has sections for the shop, learning, professionals, customer reviews and a list of points of sale, and a banner above it shows an average rating from reviewers.
The catalogue is built from small items in several flavours. A typical order mixes a few tubes in different flavours with a box or two of capsules, so the invoice has several short lines.
A reduced rate, printed on the page
Food supplements are taxed as foodstuffs in France, at the reduced rate of 5.5%. The invoice shows that rate and the tax amount beside the subtotal and the total, together with the seller's SIRET and VAT number, a unique number and the date of the sale. Printing the rate on the page lets a customer or an accountant check that the reduced rate was applied.
Baskets can mix rates. A supplement tube takes 5.5%, while a non-food accessory added to the same order takes the standard 20%, and the invoice then needs the two rates on separate lines. French companies also keep their invoices for ten years, which is a long time to rely on a document that is hard to read.
This page covers how the store handles its invoices. It says nothing about what the products do for anyone, and an invoice says nothing of the kind either.
Barcode on, documents lined up
Hedonist Labs has used Avada PDF Invoice since 2021. French invoices come from the Blue Invoice template, and the account also holds a packing slip and a refund template. SFTP and FTP export is switched on. So is the order barcode option in the template settings, which prints a scannable code of the order number on the invoice. A code like that lets anyone with a handheld scanner match a sheet of paper to its order in the warehouse system, without typing a number by hand.
We rendered the sample on this page from the Blue Invoice template with the order barcode switched on, as it is on the account, so the order number also prints as a scannable code under the invoice amount. Only the brand name is real. The address, the SIRET and VAT numbers, the customer and the amounts are invented. It lists four supplement lines, 74 euros before tax, 4.07 euros of TVA at 5.5% and a total of 78.07 euros. The footer states the reduced rate in French.
What 2,500 documents show
The app has sent about 2,500 documents since 2021, all of them delivered as files over SFTP. Invoices, packing slips and refunds share one account, and the store has kept the same Blue Invoice look for all of them.
Try it on your store
Sell supplements or other food products in France? Confirm the VAT rate with your accountant, then enter it in the template. You can install Avada PDF Invoice and check a French invoice against a sample order in a few minutes.