gofact

🇫🇷 Version française

Small Go binary that turns a print-ready HTML invoice into Factur-X: a compliant PDF/A-3 with the CII EN 16931 XML embedded, and optionally submits it to a French e-invoicing platform (PDP — plateforme de dématérialisation partenaire).

Built for the invoicing of a French freelancer or small business (the French e-invoicing reform), and also shipped as a Claude Code plugin with the creer-facture skill.

Pipeline

JSON  ──EN 16931 rules──▶  rejected if non-compliant (before producing anything)
      ──gofact──────────▶  factur-x.xml (CII EN 16931)
HTML  ──headless Chrome─▶  PDF          (identical to Ctrl+P output, backgrounds included)
PDF + XML ──pure Go─────▶  Factur-X     (PDF/A-3 + VERBATIM embedding of the XML)
Factur-X  ──self-check──▶  re-read      (structure + integrity of the embedded XML)

Verbatim embedding — important. The XML is embedded byte for byte. An assembler that re-serializes it through its own model loses extended fields, in particular the PDP electronic routing addresses (BT-34/BT-49). gofact never touches the XML it has produced.

System dependencies

A browser, and that's it.

• Chrome, Edge, Brave or Chromium — HTML → PDF rendering

Auto-detected on Linux, macOS and Windows (where Edge is preinstalled, so nothing to do). Sandboxed packages — snap, flatpak — are skipped: they cannot read the temporary files gofact hands them. To point at a specific executable: GOFACT_CHROME or -chrome.

The PDF/A-3 assembly is done in Go (pdfcpu): no Ghostscript, no Java, no first-run download. The sRGB ICC profile is embedded in the binary.

Compliance

Two checks, at two different moments:

• EN 16931 business rules, applied on the model before producing anything. gofact refuses to issue an invoice it knows to be non-compliant, reporting the rule identifier (BR-50, BR-CO-15…) and the field to fix.
• PDF self-check, after writing: the file is re-read, the Factur-X structures are verified (/AF, /OutputIntents, XMP, /EmbeddedFiles) and the embedded XML is compared byte for byte with the one that was generated.

Deep PDF/A-3b compliance is verified by veraPDF, via Mustang, in continuous integration — never on the user's machine:

GOFACT_ORACLE_HTML=facture.html go test -tags=ci ./internal/facturx

Build

go build -o gofact .
go test ./...

Configuration

No identity and no secret is hard-coded. The invoice issuer, the payment IBAN and the PDP credentials come from the environment.

cp .env.example .env    # then fill in your own values

gofact loads, in order and without ever overwriting an already-defined variable: the file passed to -env, otherwise ./.env, then $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gofact/.env (~/.config/gofact/.env by default). The .env is git-ignored — never commit it.

With no seller configured, gofact fails explicitly rather than issuing an incomplete invoice. Every value can still be overridden per invoice via the JSON.

MCP server — talk to your AI to invoice

gofact mcp exposes invoicing as a local MCP server (stdio): from Claude Desktop, Claude Code, LM Studio or any MCP client, saying "make me an invoice for ACME, 2 days at €600" is enough. The AI is the interface; gofact guarantees the numbering (continuous legal sequence, locked and transactional allocation), EN 16931 compliance and archiving — locally.

# Register in Claude Code, for example:
claude mcp add gofact -- /path/to/gofact mcp

Tools: list_organizations, get_organization, init_organization, update_organization, search_client, get_invoice_template, preview_next_number, list_invoices, create_invoice, send_invoice (the only destructive tool — PDP submission, explicit confirmation required), get_invoice_status. Prompt: nouvelle-facture.

An organization (issuing entity) = a self-contained directory: identity in its .env, numerotation.json registry, journal.ndjson audit log, invoice template frozen at first issuance, and the invoices themselves. CLI management: gofact org list | init | show. No secret ever leaves a tool response.

Usage (CLI)

# Simplest form: -data and -out derived from the HTML file name
gofact -html "2026011 - Client.html"
#   → reads "2026011 - Client.json", writes "2026011 - Client.pdf"

# Explicit paths + XML dump for debugging
gofact -html f.html -data f.json -out f.pdf -xml f.xml

# Options
-env <path>       # explicit .env file
-validate=false   # skip the self-check of the produced PDF
-chrome <path>    # force the Chrome executable
-q                # quiet (errors only)

Exit code 0 if the Factur-X is generated (and compliant when -validate).

Sending to a PDP (SuperPDP)

gofact submits the Factur-X PDF to SuperPDP (OAuth2 client credentials).

# generate then submit in one command
gofact -html f.html -send -poll
# submit an already-generated PDF
gofact send -pdf f.pdf -poll

The PDP requires that the invoice seller = the company of the authenticated account (legal identifier BT-30) and an electronic routing address (BT-34/BT-49, scheme 0225) for both the issuer and the recipient. See electronic_address below. -poll shows the lifecycle (fr:200 submitted → fr:201 issued → fr:202 received).

JSON format (sidecar)

All amounts are in cents (integers). The seller, the IBAN, the VAT regime and the French legal mentions have default values (environment) — the JSON only carries what varies.

{
  "number": "2026011",
  "type": "invoice",
  "issue_date": "2026-06-29",
  "buyer_reference": "D2026004",
  "buyer": {
    "name": "ACME SAS",
    "siret": "55208131700015",
    "email": "compta@acme.example",
    "address": "1 rue de la Paix",
    "postal_code": "75002",
    "city": "Paris",
    "country_code": "FR"
  },
  "lines": [
    { "name": "Développement", "unit": "day", "quantity": "2.00",
      "unit_price_ht_cents": 60000, "amount_ht_cents": 120000 }
  ]
}

Optional fields: due_date (defaults to "on receipt" = issue date), delivery_date (defaults to issue date), currency (defaults to EUR), vat (defaults to 293 B exemption; set {"exempt": false, "rate_pct": "20.00"} for standard VAT), seller, iban, title (the invoice subject, recorded in the registry), notes.

Notes: the three French legal mentions — late-payment penalties (PMD), recovery fee (PMT), discount (AAB) — are always emitted (BR-FR-05). notes adds to them: a note without subject_code goes out as general information (AAI); a note carrying PMD, PMT or AAB replaces the default mention with that code. No spec can drop them: generation refuses.

PDP routing: seller/buyer accept electronic_address (BT-34/BT-49) and electronic_address_scheme (e.g. "0225"). A PDP routes on these addresses, not on the postal address. Without a declared address, each party is routed on its SIREN (derived from the SIRET) with scheme 0225; the e-mail (EM) is only used when no legal identifier is known — it is not in the directory, and send_invoice then refuses the deposit. Example (seller override):

"seller": {
  "name": "Studio Exemple", "siren": "123456789",
  "electronic_address": "123456789", "electronic_address_scheme": "0225"
}

Installation

Precompiled binary (GitHub release, no toolchain required):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kolapsis/gofact/main/install.sh | sh
gofact install -yes    # registers the MCP server in the detected clients

gofact install detects Claude Desktop, Claude Code, LM Studio and Cursor, shows what it intends to write (dry-run by default), backs up every file before modifying it and never overwrites a diverging entry without -force. Windows: install.ps1.

Package managers — the cask and the manifest live in this repository, hence the explicit URLs (Homebrew's short brew tap form requires a homebrew-* repository name; Homebrew core and the main Scoop bucket both gate on a popularity threshold gofact has not reached):

brew tap kOlapsis/gofact https://github.com/kOlapsis/gofact
brew install kOlapsis/gofact/gofact

scoop bucket add gofact https://github.com/kOlapsis/gofact
scoop install gofact

Claude Code plugin — the repository is also a plugin: creer-facture skill

• declared MCP server:

/plugin marketplace add kolapsis/gofact
/plugin install gofact@gofact

From source: go build -o gofact .

Organizations live in local directories (identity, registry, invoices) — never versioned here: they contain real data. GOFACT_INVOICES_DIR is still honored for compatibility with the historical skill.

Known limitations