Côte d’Ivoire gives API-interface FNE users until 29 October 2026 to meet the technical specifications
- Jurisdiction
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Tax
- VAT
- Change type
- E-invoicing
- Status
- In force
- Impact
- Action required
- Announced
- 14 September 2026
- Effective
- 29 October 2026
- Authority
- Direction Générale des Impôts (Côte d’Ivoire)
- Systems
- Invoicing, ERP, E-commerce
- Verified
- Fetched from official source · high confidence
Companies generating electronic standardised invoices (FNE) through the API-interface (derogatory) procedure.
Validate API invoice payloads against FNE specifications (taxpayer number format, phone format, B2B contact fields, B2F currency, positive quantities) before 29 October 2026.
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A DGI communiqué of 14 September 2026 gives companies using the API-interface (derogatory) procedure for generating electronic standardised invoices (FNE) 45 days from signature (to 29 October 2026) to bring their solutions into line with FNE technical specifications. Requirements include an 8-character taxpayer account number, Ivorian phone-number format, mandatory customer email and phone for B2B, currency and exchange rate for B2F, VAT only invoiced by taxpayers under real regimes (RNI/RSI), and positive quantities with no negative values (except kerosene sales). Non-compliant API keys may be temporarily suspended.
What changed in detail
A communiqué of the Direction Générale des Impôts dated 14 September 2026 gives companies using the API-interface (derogatory) procedure for generating electronic standardised invoices (FNE) 45 days from signature, to 29 October 2026, to bring their solutions into line with the FNE technical specifications.
The requirements include an 8-character taxpayer account number, the Ivorian phone-number format, mandatory customer email and phone for B2B, currency and exchange rate for B2F, VAT invoiced only by taxpayers under the real regimes (RNI/RSI), and positive quantities with no negative values (except kerosene sales).
Non-compliant API keys may be temporarily suspended.
What it means
The deadline is a hard technical one: a key that fails to conform can be suspended, which would stop a business issuing compliant invoices. Teams running their own API integration should test each listed rule, especially the less obvious ones such as the B2B customer contact data, B2F currency fields and the bar on negative quantities. Credit handling that relied on negative values will need to be reworked.
Proof
à procéder à la mise en conformité de leurs solutions avec les spécifications techniques de la FNE dans un délai de quarante-cinq (45) jours à compter de la date de signature du présent communiqué.to bring their solutions into compliance with the technical specifications of the FNE within forty-five (45) days from the date of signature of this communiqué.
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