A private buyer finds your domain, agrees on the price, pays, and the domain is transferred.
Beautiful.
For once, the complicated part of domain investing was finding the buyer — not creating the invoice.
When Pavel Domains sells a domain name to a private individual in France, the invoice can remain quite simple.
What should I write on the invoice?
My preferred description is:
Cession du nom de domaine example.com
It is short, precise and clearly identifies what changed hands.
Although we casually say that we “sell” a domain, French VAT rules treat the transfer of intangible property rights as a prestation de services rather than a delivery of physical goods.
For the buyer, the useful information is essentially:
- Full name
- Billing address
- The exact domain name
The invoice itself also contains the usual information: invoice number and date, seller information, transaction date, precise description, price, applicable VAT and total payable. French official guidance requires the buyer’s identity and, for an individual, their full name and normally their address.
Example
Cession du nom de domaine example.com
Quantity: 1
Price: €XXX HT
TVA: according to the applicable regime
Total: €XXX TTC
And that’s basically it.
No SIREN.
No company name.
No corporate archaeology.
Just a person who wanted a domain and a domainer who, after renewing it for several years, is delighted to discover that someone else wanted it too.
One important distinction: the standard €40 fixed recovery indemnity for late payment applies to professional customers, not private consumers.
International sales can also change the VAT treatment, so a buyer outside France deserves a separate check.
But for an ordinary French private buyer, the principle is wonderfully simple: identify the buyer, identify the domain, identify the price.
Sometimes accounting really can fit on one screen.
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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