If you want to work independently as a cook, waiter or dishwasher in the restaurant sector, you need to obtain a SIRET/SIREN number to start your professional activities. In this case, service providers do not need a K-bis. The certificate, Avis de situation SIRENE, issued by INSEE, is all you need to carry out your activities. However, to work as a caterer, you will need a K-bis.
Additionally, we help service providers to register on various websites and applications related to this sector, such as Extracadabra, Job minute, Gofer, Brigad, etc., through which you can get job assignments. These platforms guarantee financial transactions and mutual satisfaction.
If you’d like to work in the hotel industry as a receptionist or room service, you’ll need to follow the same formalities.
In 2016, the two legal statuses, auto-entrepreneur and micro-enterprise, were merged into a single status: Micro-enterprise.
You’d like to work as a self-employed itinerant vendor of various products on open and covered markets, or sell cooked food products, but you don’t know how to register your activity, how to obtain a card reserved for this type of vendor, or what type of rules to follow. If so, please contact us.
Online registration for self-employed professions (auto or micro-enterprise) such as hairdresser, make-up artist, plumber, electrician, carpenter, wall painter, cleaning and maintenance agent, call center agent, computer technician (hardware & software), etc., or any other freelance and independent professions available in the list.
But before you start registration, find out everything you absolutely need to know: the training required, the qualifications needed and the regulations in force.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us using the question box at the bottom of the page.
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If you’d like to work independently or start a business in France, or you’ve an idea of starting an individual project beside your regular job, you’ve to register yourself as a Micro-entrepreneur.
In the beginning, in 2009, the status was designated as ‘Auto-entrepreneur’ to allow people with low paying jobs to supplement their income by providing services to individuals or companies, with the exception of certain regulated activities.
In 2016, the two legal statuses, Auto-entrepreneur and Micro-enterprise, were merged into a single status ‘Micro-Entrepreneur’ to facilitate stronger economic activities.
The benefits of Micro-entrepreneur status:
1. Social charges to be paid as a percentage of revenue depending on the line of work. For example, if you work as a food delivery partner, you’ve to pay 22.10% of your income to URSSAF. It is12.30% for sale of goods.
2. Exempt from Value added Tax (TVA) on a turnover limit of 36,800€ for services, and 91,900€ for the sale of goods
Micro-entrepreneur status is not appropriate for all lines of work, such as artistic or a regulated profession. Before registration make sure whether your professional activity complies with the law. In case of doubt, talk to a competent person or write to us.
Attention: Salaried resident card holders (Titre de séjour -salarié) are not entitled to open micro-entrepreneur account.
Please note that the INPI registration system sometimes confuses a 4-year subsidiary protection card with a multi-annual salary card. In this case, your application may be rejected initially.
Students holding nationality of one of the twenty-eight countries of the EU and Algeria can become a micro-entrepreneur. The only condition is that the address of his/her micro-enterprise should be in France. But this is not possible for students from other countries. They need to change status. Those who want to give up their student residence permit and apply for a temporary professional residence permit, to validate the change of status, they will need to justify a viable project and provide all the documents in this regard to the prefecture (projections over three years, business plan, etc.).
As it is mentioned above, micro-entrepreneurs are exempt from Value added Tax (TVA) on a turnover limit of 36,800€ for services, and 91,900€ for the sale of goods
But note that under the micro-entreprise scheme, maximum turnover ceiling is set at 77,700€ for services falling into the industrial and commercial profits (BIC) or non-commercial profits (BNC) categories.
Sales of goods, sales for consumption on the premises and the provision of accommodation cannot exceed the maximum turnover limit of 188,700€.
If your revenues are higher than the abovementioned slabs, you are obliged to move your business to a different legal structure, such as an individual enterprise (EI) or a limited company (SASU, SAS, SARL or EURL).
NOTE: Support for business creators and takeovers (ACRE) is a contribution reduction scheme designed to encourage the creation and takeover of businesses. Currently, for food delivery services, you have to pay 11% of your income to URSSAF after the reduction for the first three quarters of the working year, after which the contribution rate will increase in instalments to the normal rate.
Additional conditions to benefit from the ACRE :
Important information:
If you are considered to be under one of the above conditions, you must submit a certificate to that effect to apply for ACRE. This request must be made within 45 days following the date of publication of the SIRET number.
If you don’t want to start working after opening your micro-enterprise, it will remain active for around two years. On the other hand, even if you do not work, you must declare quarterly income to URSSAF mentioning ‘0’ . If you don’t do that, you may have to pay fines in the future.
If you decide not continuing your micro-entreprise activities, it would be better for you to close the account to avoid administrative formalities related to it.
Being a micro-entrepreneur, you’ve to pay the CFE at the end of the year, except in the following cases:
In this case you will receive an email from the Income Tax Office (impôts.gouv.fr) instructing you to open a professional account. You can pay CFE through that account.
YupJobs is a combined online job posting and search service for freelancers, companies and clients who want to engage in hassle-free contract work.
The platform provides a way to pay securely for work via an escrow system, YupJobs will hold the funds while the work is being done.
It offers peace of mind both to clients and workers since the funds for ongoing works are pre-paid and managed by the platform.
We offer a dispute resolution service in the event when either of the parties does not comply with the agreement.
Registrations are now open.