Become a home seller
Verified 07 April 2022 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister), Ministry of Economy
The lobbying home, also called "door", is an activity commercial. It's a question of just looking directly at customers you moving to their home. We'll show you how to VDI: titleContent, i.e. being a worker independent, unlike VRP: titleContent who is employed.
A commercial activity
Home seller is a business.
It consists of move at the customer's home or meeting sales, to sell goods or services.
Example :
Ready-to-wear, jewellery, essential oils, household appliances, windows, doors, heat pump, insulation, solar panels, electricity, gas, etc.
You are a worker independent : you are not an employee of a company (unlike VRP: titleContent).
Please note
it is often a secondary activity carried out in parallel with a main activity (self-employed or employed). It is safe to ask about possible incompatibilities between professions.
You're an intermediary
You are intermediary between a direct sales company and retail customers.
You sell the products and services of the direct selling company.
The sale ends with contract.
This is a contract of distribution that formalises the link between you, the company, and the customer.
However, you are not subject to this company. You can independently canvass clients.
Where to walk?
Tagging can be done in locations following:
- Customer Home
- Customer's workplace
- Outside (street, centre or shopping centre, etc.)
- Seller's place of work if the canvassing took place just before in the street or a shopping centre
Warning
home selling is not about selling over the phone or the internet.
To have the right to be VDI: titleContent, you must:
- Be major (have more than 18 years)
- Be emancipated minor
- Respond to criteria for becoming a trader
FYI
there is no qualification or residency requirement to be a home seller.
You can combine another activity with that of home seller.
VDI: titleContent is often exercised as secondary activity.
This is often a complement your main activity. The latter can be employed or independent.
Explain cumulation rules based on the nature of the activity.
There are 3 possible statuses:
- VDI Seller agent
- VDI Seller broker
- VDI Seller buyer-reseller
Agent VDI
If you choose to be an agent-at-home seller, you receive your income from direct sales company for which you sell the products.
You take your orders on behalf of the company that gave you mandate. You use the purchase orders provided by the direct selling company. You have no product inventory to manage.
Your income shall consist of committees calculated in relation to turnover that you realise. Your commissions are considered BNC: titleContent on your income tax return.
As VDI: titleContent agent, you do not have to register for RCS: titleContent, or SFCR: titleContent.
Please note
if your income exceeds €20,568 in a year for 3 consecutive years, you must register for RCS: titleContent or SFCR: titleContent.
For Social Security, you are treated as an employee. This gives you social protection (health costs, sickness, maternity, retirement). But you are not entitled to unemployment insurance or compensation in the event of an occupational accident.
Vendor VDI broker
Home seller broker is a status very close of VDI: titleContentagent.
Most brokers also receive a mandate.
You sign brokerage contract with the direct selling company for which you are selling products.
So you receive 2 types of commissions : committees brokerage and committees mandate.
Your income consists of these commissions. They shall be calculated in relation to turnover that you realise.
They shall be regarded as BNC: titleContent on your income tax return.
You do not have to register for RCS: titleContent, or SFCR: titleContent.
Please note
if your income exceeds €20,568 in a year for 3 consecutive years, you must register for RCS: titleContent or SFCR: titleContent.
For Social Security, you are treated as an employee. This gives you social protection (health costs, sickness, maternity, retirement). You are not entitled to unemployment insurance or compensation in the event of an occupational accident.
VDI Buyer-Reseller
If you choose VDI: titleContent buyer-reseller, you buy the products at the direct selling company and then sell them to your customers.
You fix you resale price.
Your income is made up of margin completed. This margin shall be considered as BIC: titleContent on your income tax return.
You must be registered RCS: titleContent or SFCR: titleContent.
For social protection, you depend on SSI: titleContent. You are insured for your health expenses, your sick leave and your retirement. You are not insured in case of unemployment or accident at work.
Creating your company is a process different by chosen status : buyer-reseller, agent or broker.
FYI
VDI only buyer-reseller shallregister at RCS: titleContent.
Buyer-Reseller VDI
Register your company to RCS: titleContent
You must apply to register your company.
This formality must be performed at least 15 daysbefore you start.
FYI
before registration, you must achieve social domicile your business, also called head.
Where to apply for registration?
You must request:
- Either with your CFE: titleContent
- Either with the Registry of the Commercial Court
- Or on the website infografe.fr
Registration in the Registry of the Commercial Court
Online submissions to commercial court transplants
Your business receives a registration number based on the location of your business.
Your commercial company is then on RCS: titleContent.
Declare your company created
You can file your return online at:
You must send it to your CFE: titleContent :
Agent VDI
You can declare your activity online:
You can also file your return by mail by completing the form next:
Declaration of Commencement of Activity - Self-Employed Individual (P0i)
You must send it to your CFE: titleContent :
Who shall I contact
VDI broker
You can declare your activity online:
You can also file your return by mail by completing the form next:
Declaration of Commencement of Activity - Self-Employed Individual (P0i)
You must send it to your CFE: titleContent :
Who shall I contact
How are you taxed?
Buyer-Reseller VDI
Your income consists of your realised margin.
This margin shall be considered as BIC for your income tax return.
Agent VDI
Your income consists of commissions calculated in relation to the turnover you realise.
Your commissions are considered CNB for your income tax return.
VDI broker
Your brokerage fees are considered CNB for your income tax return.
Deduct business expenses
The door-to-door canvassing requires business travel.
You have a deduction (or deduction) on your taxes of 10%.
Warning
you have no steps to do. That's the resale business which pays your dues to the Urssaf.
Depending on the amount of your income, you may or may not have to pay social contributions.
Warning
your income must be considered before abatement tax 10% for professional expenses.
Income less than € 567 gross per quarter
You don't pay payroll taxes.
Income between 567 € and 1 512 € gross per quarter
You have to pay social contributions.
Your contributions are flat based on your gross income per quarter.
Gross income by quarter | Flat-rate contribution per quarter of which 33% is borne by the home seller |
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Equal to or greater than €567 and less than €1,134 | €52 (including €17 at the expense of the home seller) |
Equal to or greater than €1,134 and less than €1,512 | €156 (including €51 at the expense of the home seller) |
Income between 1 512 € and 5 102 € gross per quarter
You have to pay social contributions.
You can choose (with the agreement of the direct selling company) between one of the following two calculation methods:
- Pay contributions calculated on flat
- Pay contributions based on your real income
If you choose the calculation on a lump sum basis, the amount of that basis depends on your gross revenue per quarter.
You will find in the table below the revenue ranges with the amount of plate corresponding.
Gross income by quarter | Flat plate per quarter |
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Equal to or greater than €1,512 and less than €1,890 | €662 |
Equal to or greater than €1,890 and less than €2,268 | €851 |
Equal to or greater than €2,268 and less than €2,457 | €1,040 |
Equal to or greater than €2,457 and less than €2,835 | €1,323 |
Equal to or greater than €2,835 and less than €3,024 | €1,512 |
Equal to or greater than €3,024 and less than €3,402 | €1,796 |
Equal to or greater than €3,402 and less than €3,591 | €2,079 |
Equal to or greater than €3,591 and less than €3,969 | €2,552 |
Equal to or greater than €3,969 and less than €4,158 | €2,835 |
Equal to or greater than €4,158 and less than €4,536 | €3,308 |
Equal to or greater than €4,536 and less than €4,725 | €3,686 |
Equal to or greater than €4,725 and less than €5,103 | €4,064 |
Income greater than or equal to € 5,103 gross per quarter
You pay social contributions.
They are calculated based on your real income.
You include several mandatory elements on your contracts, including: your name and the name of the resale business, description of the goods and services, the delivery terms and times, the price and the means of payment, the conditions of renunciation for the customer.
You can receive payment from customers only 7 days after signing a contract (withdrawal period).
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
- Company Formalities Centres (CFE)
VDI buyer-reseller: registration of your company
Trade Court RegistryVDI buyer-reseller registered with RCS/RSAC
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI)Social security for home sellers not registered with the RCS/RSAC
UrssafSocial security for home sellers registered with the RCS or the SFCR
Social security
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Speak with an advisor on Place des Entreprises- Trade Code: Articles L135-1 to L135-3Home seller definition
- Consumption Code: Articles L221-18 to L221-28Right of withdrawal
- Consumption Code: Item L211-1 to L211-4Contract Overview
- Order of 31 May 2001 relating to the flat-rate contributions of home sellers
- Civil Code: Articles 1984 to 1990Mandate
- Ministerial Circular 2001/286 of 22 June 2001 on the situation of persons selling goods and services in the home with regard to social security legislation
- Company formalities window
Online service
- Declaration of Commencement of Activity - Self-Employed Individual (P0i)
Form
- Application for Registration (company Creation) - Commercial Officer (AC0)
Form
- Online activity statement, modification or cancellation for professionals, creative artists and home sellers
Online service
- Change Declaration - Commercial Officer (AC2)
Form
- Declaration of cessation of activity - natural person (P4 PL)
Form
FAQ
- Professional income tax
- Home Office: rules
- Remote Sales: right of withdrawalService-Public.fr
- Sales and purchase agreementService-Public.fr
- Delivery of property purchased by an individual from a professionalService-Public.fr
- Social protection of self-employed workers: contributions
- Home your company and business
- Company registration formalities
- Income tax - Business expenses: lump sum or actual expenses (deduction)Service-Public.fr
- Seller's social contributions: declaration and calculationUrssaf
- Examples of home seller payroll tax calculationsUrssaf
- Direct Sales company (PDF - 9.3 MB)Ministry of Labour