Get Control of your French Business

How-to videos + 1 year of support ✅

  • 10-Step Roadmap

    Sort out your business postal mail and forms. Prepare your 1st invoice and manage your French bookkeeping. Learn to manage your admin with confidence.

  • Online Declarations

    Follow video guides to create your online accounts with URSSAF, Impots, Ameli, pension & training fund. Complete your 1st turnover and income tax declarations.

  • Live Support

    Monthly live Q&A sessions with Valerie for 1 year! Access the Sart Business in France private forum for 1-year for your day-to-day business questions.

Intro video

Learn to manage your Micro Entrepreneur

You've registered your Micro Entrepreneur: Congratulations 🎉. Somehow, what felt exciting is becoming daunting as every day brings new challenges: What do you do with all these forms and letters? Which ones are scams? What do you include on your invoices? Do you need to chase your health cover? How and when will you declare your turnover? You're starting to get some sleepless nights: Am I doing it right? Will I get in trouble? 😳

Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur is designed to help you go through your 1st year in business.  From sorting your paperwork, understanding "who does what", creating your 1st invoice, declaring your turnover and income tax to handling your bookkeeping. Phew! 

Follow the step-by-step videos and checklists to help you get control over your French business. Join the monthly Zoom sessions to ask your questions or get useful updates (new budget, new rules on VAT, AirBnBs or social charges). Ask all your questions via the Start Business In France forum for a year.

I get you, French admin isn't fun... This is why Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur includes a community to go through it together. Join other expat entrepreneurs across France and share your experience and tips for the live calls and forum. 

With Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur, you will go from feeling lost and frustrated with the French system, to being confident with handling your business papers, bookkeeping, and turnover declarations. Freeing time to focus on your new life in France.

Pricing options

One-off payment or 4 instalments.

Course curriculum

    1. A message from the instructor

    2. How to use this course

    3. Before we begin...

    4. Lives + Forum + Contacts + Roadmap

    1. Recap Post Registration Process

    2. How to read your INPI documents

    3. What is Extrait KBIS & INSEE attestation

    4. Business Folders

    5. Sorting out Postal Mail

    6. BONUS - Micro Entrepreneur Setup Checklist

    7. BONUS - Micro Entrepreneur Factsheet 2025

    1. March 25

    2. Feb 2025

    3. January Replay

    4. December Replay

    5. November Replay

    1. Workshop Replay

    1. Bank account & payment gateways

    2. Send your 1st invoice

    3. BONUS - Invoice template

    4. Tools for bookkeeping

    5. Insurance & top up health cover

    6. Chasing your health cover CPAM

    1. Tour of forms you may receive

    2. Handling CFE forms : 1447 C SD or 751 D

    3. Malakoff, Audiens, AG2R

    4. Sacem Spre - Gites B&B Shops

    5. ACRE form

    6. BONUS - Scams list

About this course

  • 4 x 139€
  • 59 lessons
  • 19 hours of video content

Who is it for?

Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur is for you:

  • You want to be shown how to manage your Micro Entrepreneur.

  • You feel lost with the French system & endless paperwork.

  • You want to get things done the right way from the start.

  • You are about to or just registered your Micro Entrepreneur.

  • You registered up to months ago, but not sure what to do.

Customer Testimonials

“Manage your Micro Entrepreneur course has been a lifesaver in navigating my first few months in France. Valerie's course walks you through so many details, websites, forms, and requirements step-by-step, which makes it feel manageable! She explains everything clearly. The checklists she provides help you know what to look for and make sure you're not missing essential to-do items. She's available to answer questions. It's a huge relief! I can't recommend this course enough. It saved me so much stress and worry!”

Raina Willick, Personal & Professional Development Coach

“"Being a non-French speaker, finding a good Anglophone who helps in explaining things very simply with videos that you can go back to is a goldmine. I have watched the videos several times according to which stage I am in. The option to ask questions is also super helpful, as it allows you to reach out if something is still not clear or you find another issue. Undoubtedly this course was highly useful and I enjoyed the short full of information videos very much!”

Nathalie, Artistic workshops

“The course was immensely helpful. I was in an anxious fog before and now it’s clearing. I understand social charges and taxes, TVA and bookkeeping. It can be confusing and worrisome to work in another language. This course provides a set of films and guidance sheets on everything you need to know. Live sessions with accountancy, marketing and other experts and regular Q&As with Valerie and the group of participants who are working with similar concerns add great value. There were so many things about how I needed to interact with the French fiscal system that I did not understand, and now I do.”

Tracey Warr, Author, Historical fiction & Art writing

About your instructor

Valerie Aston

Valerie is a bilingual business advisor specialised in small businesses in France. She worked as a business advisor to French entrepreneurs for 10 years, helping them work on their business and financial plans to secure bank loans and successfully launch their businesses. Since 2009, Valerie has been helping English speakers prepare, create and manage their business In France, so they can concentrate on running their activity and enjoy their new French lifestyle. Every year she helps register over 100 Micro Entrepreneurs, needing guidance to stir their way through the French system. Valerie has designed two flagship courses My French Business and Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur to help expats prepare and manage their French business with confidence.

Benefits

Sign up for the group course and:

  • Join a group of like-minded expat freelancers.

  • Get 12 months support with Valerie.

  • Set up your French business admin & online accounts.

  • Know how to complete your turnover & income tax declarations.

  • Have a well-oiled bookkeeping routine to follow.

  • Work on your business mindset & strategy for 2024.

Bonuses

Get these bonuses when joining.

  • NEW :: Monthly live Q&As

    €500 value

    Get access to monthly live Q&A sessions with Valerie on Zoom. You know that your questions will get covered as they arise. Valerie will also give you Micro Entrepreneur or business updates.

  • ME Checklists + Templates

    €200 value

    Get your Micro Entrepreneur setup checklist to tick key documents as they arrive. Follow your monthly bookkeeping checklist, saving you time. Use the quote & invoice templates to check the legal information you need to add.

  • NEW : 1 year Forum access

    €130 value

    Get FREE access to the Start Business in France Forum. Ask your questions and get an answer within 48 hours. Access over 92,500 asked since 2009.

FAQ

  • What's included in the course?

    Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur includes pre-recorded how-to videos accessible as soon as you join. Plus monthly group calls for support and trending topics. It's designed to help you understand your French business (paperwork, different bodies and taxes) and handle practical tasks (1st invoice, banking, declaring your turnover, checking your health cover).

  • How long does the course last for?

    You get lifetime access to the recorded course. Monthly group calls + forum membership last for 12 months from the day you join. This gives you time to go through a whole year as a micro entrepreneur and learn about key topics.

  • I haven't registered my Micro Entrepreneur yet, can I join?

    I recommend joining the course once you have registered your business or are about to (within the next 30 days). It will still come in handy within your 1st year in business. You can join the course at any time.

  • I've already had a business abroad before, will it help me?

    Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur will show you how to manage a French business, which is very different from a business in the UK, the US or any other European country. Get the admin under control quickly and move on to your day-to-day activity.

  • How much does the course cost?

    There are 2 payment options for Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur. You can pay a one-off fee of 547€ or 4 monthly instalments of 139€. The one-off payment is slightly cheaper (hello Stripe fees...).

  • Which kind of activities does it apply to?

    Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur is designed for all types of activities. Whether you are providing some services, working as a coach, translator, programmer or consultant, selling some products online, running a gite and B&B or providing manual services.

  • How long do I need to go through the course?

    I recommend booking 1 hour per week to start with to set up your business and admin properly: understand your business papers, prepare an invoice, minimum bookkeeping. After that, come back to the course, as and when you need it: turnover declaration, health cover set up, book keeping, becoming VAT registered, income tax declaration. Believe me, you will be pleased to have this resource available!

  • I'm not interested in a group session, is this for me?

    Manage Your Micro Entrepreneur is released on your personal space, so you can go through it at your rhythm. If you don't enjoy taking part in live session (or are busy at that time), you can still watch the replay added to the course within 48 hours.