France Trades Software & Services Directory

Vertuoza is construction-management software from a company based in Nivelles, Belgium, which says it built the tool in-house from 2015, opened it to the sector in 2020 and now serves five countries including France. It covers quotes, invoicing, worksite planning and profitability, stock, HR and CRM, with VertuoAI for voice-dictated quotes. Vertuoza says it has 13,000 users and has raised €11.2 million from investors including XAnge.

Habitatpresto is a Paris-based platform, run by Habitatpresto SAS since 2005, that matches homeowners' renovation projects with building professionals. Homeowners describe a project and receive up to five quotes; Habitatpresto's terms say its only income is an annual fee paid by member professionals, with no commission on the work. It says it has 5,000 professionals and has served 300,000 homeowners.

Quotatis is a French home-improvement services company (Quotatis Groupe, registered in Paris since 1999) whose website now presents fixed-price installation packages (forfaits de pose). A 2019 La Poste article described it as part of ADEO, the group behind Leroy Merlin, running an artisan network that carried out installation services sold to Leroy Merlin customers at predefined package prices. Its terms and pay for partner artisans are not public.

Travaux.com is a French home-services marketplace that puts homeowners in touch with trades professionals. The operating company, Travaux.com, has been registered in Aix-en-Provence since 2006, and US company Angi Inc. names Travaux as its French marketplace in its 2025 annual report. Travaux.com says signing up is free, while answering quote requests needs a paid subscription sized by the number of requests.

Silae is a French payroll and HR software publisher whose products (mySilae Paie, Entreprise, BI, Santé and others) are deployed and maintained by about 6,000 partner accounting firms and integrators rather than sold direct. Silae says it produces 8 million payslips a month, has 900 collective agreements integrated, and that its partners serve about one million companies. On 9 September 2026 Silae and Cegid, both majority-owned by Silver Lake, announced a plan to combine, subject to works-council consultation and regulatory approval, with completion expected in the first half of 2027.

EBP Paie is the payroll offer of EBP, a French management-software publisher based in Gazeran (Yvelines) that joined the Cegid group in July 2024. It comes as self-managed software (payslips, DSN filing, collective-agreement updates) or as an outsourced service with a dedicated payroll manager. EBP also sells EBP Devis Facture Bâtiment for building firms and EBP Comptabilité for accounting.

SMABTP (Société mutuelle d'assurance du bâtiment et des travaux publics) is a Paris-based mutual insurer in Groupe SMA, founded in 1859 by a Paris masonry contractors' association; it says it wrote the first décennale contract in 1923. Its artisan décennale contract includes the ten-year liability plus civil liability, works-damage cover, legal protection and personal accident cover, and it offers an online quote. Premiums are not published and depend on trade, turnover, staff, company age, qualifications and claims history.

APRIL Construction is the building-trades décennale offer (the PROBAT range) of APRIL Partenaires, a registered insurance intermediary in Fougères that places cover with partner insurers it does not name. It allows up to 10 insurable activities on one contract and publishes 'from' prices per trade, each tied to a stated profile. The APRIL group describes itself as a wholesale insurance broker and has been controlled by the investment firm KKR since 2023, according to press reports.

Orus is an insurance broker based in Saint-Mandé that sells décennale, RC pro, multirisk, health and prévoyance cover online to small businesses. Its décennale covers more than 100 building trades, bundles the ten-year liability with professional liability and a proper-functioning guarantee, and allows up to 5 activities per contract. Orus lists Hiscox, AIG and Munich Re as the companies guaranteeing its contracts and says it has more than 60,000 policyholders.

AXA France sells BATISSUR Concept, a construction insurance contract for building professionals. AXA says it combines responsabilité civile décennale, cover for damage during the works, general liability before and after reception and cover for Travaux Non Constitutifs d'Ouvrage (TNCO), including when the firm works as a subcontractor. AXA France is part of the AXA group, which states it has more than 92 million clients in 52 countries.

MAAF is a French mutual insurer founded in 1950 in Niort and one of the three French brands of the Covéa group, with MMA and GMF. Covéa describes MAAF as a mutual insurer without intermediaries and the historic insurer of artisans, covering both private and professional lines. CAPEB, the artisan building trades federation, lists MAAF as a partner offering cover for premises, equipment, professional vehicles and responsabilité civile décennale.

Since 1 September 2026 every French business, micro-entrepreneurs included, must be able to receive B2B invoices electronically through a plateforme agréée, a private company registered by the State (CGI art. 289 bis). Large companies and ETI must also issue e-invoices and send transaction data (e-reporting) from that date; PME, TPE and micro-entreprises, which covers most artisans, follow by 1 September 2027. The State runs the national directory but no free public invoicing platform, and DGFiP says more than ten of the 150 approved platforms offered free or no-extra-cost services on 1 August 2026.

Constructors bound to the owner by a contract, including artisans, must hold responsabilité civile décennale insurance under the Code des assurances (L241-1) and take it out before work starts. It covers, for 10 years from reception, damage that compromises the solidity of the work or makes it unfit for its purpose, including equipment that cannot be separated from the building, on new builds and on work on existing buildings depending on its scale. Building without it is punishable by 6 months' imprisonment and/or a fine of 75,000 euros, per service-public.fr.

RGE (Reconnu Garant de l'Environnement) is a label for energy-renovation professionals, awarded by approved bodies such as Qualibat, Qualit'EnR, Qualifelec, Certibat and Cerqual. It is not a licence to work, but the French ecology ministry says clients can only get MaPrimeRénov', the éco-PTZ, CEE energy-saving bonuses, the SME energy-renovation tax credit or solar buyback rates if the work is done by an RGE professional. The label is valid for 4 years, with annual monitoring and worksite audits.

French building work on homes uses three VAT rates: 20% standard, 10% for improvement, transformation, fitting-out and maintenance, and 5.5% for energy-renovation work. The reduced rates apply only to dwellings completed more than two years ago and not to work that amounts to producing a new building. Since 1 March 2025, supplying or installing boilers that can burn fossil fuels is taxed at 20%, and the client certifies eligibility through a mention on the devis or invoice instead of a separate attestation, per impots.gouv.fr.

Urssaf collects social contributions from the self-employed. Under the micro-entrepreneur regime, contributions are a percentage of declared turnover (21.2% for commercial or artisanal services and 12.3% for sales in 2026), declared online to Urssaf monthly or quarterly, and nothing is due when turnover is zero. The regime applies up to 83,600 euros of turnover for services and 203,100 euros for sales, and VAT franchise is a separate threshold (37,500 euros for services in 2026), per service-public.fr.

An artisan business registers online through the Guichet des formalités des entreprises (formalites.entreprises.gouv.fr, run by INPI), which enters it on the Registre national des entreprises (RNE) and returns an attestation with its SIREN and APE code from INSEE. Registration is free for a micro-entreprise and costs 45 euros for an entreprise individuelle with an artisanal activity, per service-public.fr. The Chambre de métiers et de l'artisanat (CMA) is the artisans' contact for advice, and artisan status (qualité d'artisan) requires a listed craft activity, a professional qualification and fewer than 11 employees.

Under the Code de l'artisanat (art. L121-1), building construction, maintenance and repair, work on water, gas, heating and electrical installations, and chimney sweeping may only be carried out by a professionally qualified person or under that person's effective and permanent control. The qualification is a CAP, BEP or BP, an equivalent RNCP title, or three years' experience in the trade, per service-public.fr. The qualified person can be the owner or an employee who controls the work.

Qualibat is a French qualification and certification body for building firms, founded in 1949 as an association loi 1901. It says it has qualified 53,000 companies, offers more than 320 qualifications and has 35 local agencies. Qualification is voluntary, but Qualibat is one of the bodies approved to award the RGE mention that homeowners need to claim energy-renovation aid.