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Create a model

A model decides the shape of the file you import and the layout of the certified PDF. Before having your first invoice certified, you need one.

Screen names are given in French

The Minlessika interface is available in French and in English. Each tab or button name is shown here as it appears on a French screen, with its English translation in parentheses.

Prerequisites

  • The Fiscal invoicing module activated for your organization
  • The SETTINGS.UPDATE permission

Steps

1. Open the model list

Open Paramètres › Modèles (Settings › Models). The list shows the code, the name and the origin of every model. Those marked Standard belong to the platform: they serve as your base, but you do not change them.

The model list of the organization

An empty list to begin with

A brand new organization has no model and sees no standard: start from step 3 in that case.

2. Clone a standard model

This is the shortest path, and the one to prefer: the standard already brings the fields and the layout the FNE expects for a given invoicing type.

On the row of the standard model you want, click Cloner (Clone), give the clone a code and a name, then confirm. The clone becomes a model of your organization, fully editable.

3. Or start from an empty model

If no standard fits, click Créer un modèle (Create a model) and fill in:

  • the code — a unique and permanent identifier;
  • the name;
  • the nature — Factures de vente (Sales invoices) or Bordereaux d'achat (Purchase slips). It is permanent: it decides the fields of the model, how imported files are read and where the import goes. The credit note flow is not chosen: it comes with the model, carrying its own fields.

The model is created with the fields a user always adds by hand: you start from a usable base, not a blank page. The full list sits in the reference.

Code and nature cannot be changed

The name can be changed whenever you like. The code and the nature cannot: they are frozen at creation. Check them before confirming.

4. Set up both flows

Open the model. The page shows its identity, then one section per flow: Facture (Invoice) and Avoir (Credit note). Each leads to two screens:

The credit note flow names the invoice flow it corrects: a certified credit note therefore carries over the presentation of the invoice it comes from.

5. Get the model files

The Fichiers modèles (Model files) section generates, for each flow, the empty file matching the mapping, in Excel, CSV, XML or JSON, and in the language of your choice.

The model detail: its identity, its flows and its files

Every file carries an internal marker identifying the model: it is the marker that tells the module how to read your data, whatever name you give the file.

What next?

Changelog

  • 1.0 (August 1, 2026): document created.