Company stamp maker for France

French law does not require a cachet d’entreprise, but commercial practice puts one on quotes, invoices and delivery notes, and the number that matters on it is the SIREN or SIRET.

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The cachet is a convention in France rather than an obligation. What is regulated is the information a business document has to carry: the company name, legal form, share capital, registered office and identifying numbers. A stamp is simply how those get onto a devis or a bon de livraison that has no letterhead. Un tampon entreprise, sometimes a cachet entreprise, is the French name for the company stamp described here.

What a company stamp in France usually carries

The company name with its legal form, so SARL, SAS, SASU, EURL or SA.
The SIREN, nine digits, or the SIRET, fourteen digits including the establishment code.
Often the RCS entry with the registering city, and the share capital.
The TVA intracommunautaire number on stamps used for invoicing.

France stamp templates, ready to edit

Address Stamp template for France, editable online — Address stampSize: 56 x 22mmCustomize this stamp

Business Oval template for France, editable online — Business ovalSize: 56 x 34mmCustomize this stamp

Signature And Date Stamp template for France, editable online — Signature & dateSize: 56 x 22mmCustomize this stamp

Director Ring Seal template for France, editable online — Director ringSize: 56mmCustomize this seal

Octagon Company Seal template for France, editable online — Octagon company sealSize: 56mmCustomize this seal

Paid Stamp template for France, editable online — PaidSize: 56 x 22mmAdd an editable date

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Every preview on this page carries a faint Estamplab watermark. Your own download does not: the editor renders your stamp again, clean, as a transparent PNG, an SVG or a PDF. See the full template library.

Why make it digitally

A stamp carrying the mandatory particulars saves adding them by hand to every document without a letterhead.
Registered details change, and a new die costs where an edit does not.
Rectangular address stamps hold more lines than a round seal, which is what French practice mostly uses.

Questions

Is a company stamp required in France?

No. There is no obligation to own or use a cachet. What is required is that commercial documents carry particulars such as the legal form, share capital, registered office, RCS entry and SIREN, and a stamp is a practical way of supplying them.

SIREN or SIRET on the stamp?

The SIREN identifies the legal entity and is the usual choice. The SIRET adds a five-digit code identifying a specific establishment, which matters if you have several sites and want the stamp to say which.

What about the TVA number?

Put it on if the stamp is used for invoicing, since the intracommunautaire number belongs on invoices. Many companies keep a separate stamp for accounting paperwork.

Do I get a template or something I can edit?

You build it. The france company stamp sample layouts are starting points rather than the product, so this is closer to a france company stamp generator than a france company stamp template. Adjust the france company stamp design, build the france company stamp online, preview at real size, then pay once. As a france company stamp maker it charges nothing to try, and the france company stamp price is $1.50 for a transparent france company stamp png or $3.00 for the whole pack.

What people call it in France

rubber stamp France: The physical die, cut from rubber by a shop. Design the artwork here, download the SVG, and take that to any stamp maker in France: a vector file gives a sharper die than the photograph most people walk in with.
company stamp France: The everyday identity mark: registered name, registration number, and whatever else practice in France expects on a commercial document.
company seal France: Reads as more formal than a stamp and is used where a document is being executed rather than merely marked. Common on certificates issued in France.
stamp maker France: The tool rather than the shop. Design it in the browser, preview it at actual size, and download it without waiting for anything to be cut or posted to you in France.
digital stamp: What you want if the paperwork is emailed rather than handed over. It also carries a date that fills itself in, which a rubber die in France or anywhere else cannot.
round stamp: The default shape for anything formal, with the name curving around the ring. Almost every official-looking seal in France is this shape.
rectangular stamp: Nothing curves and nothing is squeezed, so it holds the most text per square millimetre of any shape. Around 56mm by 22mm here.
stamp templates: Start from a layout that already works rather than a blank canvas. Replace the placeholder wording with your own details and it is a stamp for France in about a minute.
free stamp maker: No account, no watermark on the preview, no trial that expires. The file is the paid part and it is a single payment.
putting a stamp on a PDF: Most paperwork in France that needs a stamp now arrives as a PDF, and printing it out to press a die on it makes the file worse at every step.

This describes common commercial practice rather than giving legal advice, and practice changes. Where a specific document matters, check the requirement with the body receiving it. Only produce a mark your own organisation is entitled to use.