Glossary
French → English
These words stay in French in Devivolt. They are what your documents, your accountant and French law use, so translating them would be misleading.
| French | What it is |
|---|---|
| Devis | The quote — a priced, binding offer |
| Facture | The invoice |
| Acompte | A deposit invoice, issued before the work is finished |
| Solde | The balance invoice, which deducts the deposits |
| Avoir | The credit note that corrects or cancels a sent invoice |
| Décennale | Compulsory ten-year building liability insurance |
| Consuel | The body that certifies a French electrical installation |
| NF C 15-100 | The French standard for low-voltage electrical installations |
| SIRET / SIREN | The registration numbers of a French business |
| TVA | VAT |
| Chantier | The work site |
| Ouvrage | A priced work item in the library |
| Déboursé | The supply cost, before margin |
| Réserve | A checkpoint answered "non-compliant" — something left to fix |
| Mentions légales | The mandatory legal statements a document must carry |
| Plateforme agréée (PA) | An accredited platform, authorised to carry electronic invoices |
| Super PDP | The accredited platform Devivolt transmits your invoices through, from your own account there |
| Factur-X | The French e-invoice format: a readable PDF with embedded data |
| E-reporting | Periodic reporting of sales to private customers |
Product words
Draft (Brouillon) — a document that exists for you only. Everything is editable, and it can be deleted. → Composing a quote
Issuing (Émission) — sending a document out officially. It gets its number and its date, and no longer changes. → Issuing a quote
Frozen document — a sent document: neither its lines, nor its prices, nor its statements change.
Numbering — the series of your quote, invoice and credit note numbers, with no gap and no duplicate. → Your document settings
Variant — the copy of a quote, as a draft, to offer an option or to correct a quote already sent. → Variants
Deposit invoice (acompte) — a partial invoice, before the end of the work. → Invoicing a deposit
Balance invoice (solde) — the final invoice: it takes up the quote and deducts the deposits. → Invoicing the balance
Credit note (avoir) — the document that corrects or cancels a sent invoice. → Correcting with a credit note
Early-payment discount (escompte) — the reduction granted when a customer pays early.
Late-payment penalties — what you can claim when an invoice is paid late, with the 40 € fixed compensation provided by law.
Work (ouvrage) — a service ready to drop onto a quote: label, price, labor time. → Your works library
Supply cost (déboursé fourniture) — your purchase price, without margin. The margin and the hourly rate come from your settings.
Labor time — the labor duration of a work.
Favorite — a pinned work: it rises to the top of the lists.
Site (chantier) — the address of a customer's work, and what decides the VAT. → Your sites
Home more than two years old — the condition that opens the reduced VAT rates.
Evidence file — the PDF that tells the whole story of a signature. → After the signature
Reminder — the e-mail sent on its own at 5 and 12 days when a quote gets no answer. → Reminders
Reservation (réserve) — a checkpoint answered "non-compliant": what is left to fix. → Ticking off on site
Self-check (pre-Consuel) — the review of the installation, point by point, before the Consuel visit. → On site
Verified review — a review left by a customer whose job was invoiced and paid in Devivolt. → Customer reviews
Intervention zone — the postal codes where you accept quote requests. → Receiving requests
Active referral (filleul actif) — someone who signed up with your referral code and is subscribed outside the trial. → Referrals
Quote statuses
| Status | What it means | What changes it |
|---|---|---|
| Brouillon | Exists for you only | Sending it out officially |
| Émis | Numbered and frozen | Sending for signature |
| Envoyé | Sent to the client, not yet opened | The client opening it |
| Consulté | The client opened the page | Their signature or refusal |
| Signé | Accepted: you can invoice | — |
| Refusé | Declined with a reason | — |
| Expiré | Validity passed with no answer | — |
Invoice statuses
| Status | What it means | What changes it |
|---|---|---|
| Brouillon | Prepared, not yet sent | Sending it out officially |
| Émis | Numbered, frozen, sent | A payment, or the due date |
| Partiellement payé | Part of it has been paid | Paying the rest |
| Payé | Fully paid | — |
| En retard | The due date has passed | Payment |
| Annulé | A full credit note cancelled it | — |
Signature request states
Sent, not yet opened · Viewed by the client · Signed · Declined · Link expired → Getting a quote signed