{"id":3159,"date":"2026-11-11T17:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdennour-avocat.local\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2026-11-11T20:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:34:37","slug":"facture-commerciale-impayee-entreprises-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/facture-commerciale-impayee-entreprises-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpaid commercial invoice: which documents should you gather before taking action?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unpaid invoice requires a properly evidenced claim. Before choosing a course of action, bring together the order, evidence of performance, the amounts due and the reasons given by the customer.<\/p>\n<h2>Documents establishing the debt<\/h2>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000032042341\">Article 1353 of the French Civil Code<\/a> places the burden of proving an obligation on the party seeking its performance. Gather the documents establishing both its existence and its amount.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The contract, accepted quotation, order and applicable terms and conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Delivery notes, evidence of performance and any reservations.<\/li>\n<li>The invoice, due date, partial payments and correspondence about payment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>An approach tailored to the dispute<\/h2>\n<p>Set out the amounts and dates in a table. A disputed service, an asserted right of set-off and a debtor\u2019s financial difficulties require different responses. The choice between a reminder, formal demand, negotiation and proceedings depends on the evidence, time limits and commercial objective.<\/p>\n<p>Where non-payment accompanies the end of a business relationship, distinguish the payment claim from a possible claim for <a href=\"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/rupture-brutale-des-relations-commerciales-comment-savoir-si-les-conditions-sont-reunies\/\">abrupt termination of an established commercial relationship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Preparing the initial discussion<\/h2>\n<p>State the unpaid amount, due date and known grounds for dispute. The firm examines the commitments and evidence to identify with you the appropriate steps in <a href=\"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/expertises\/droit-commercial\/\">commercial law<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unpaid B2B invoices: gather the contract, order, performance records and correspondence to determine the appropriate action.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-droit-commercial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}