Insights & Case Studies

WooCommerce powers 59,778 French online stores, PrestaShop 20,555. Yet PrestaShop generates higher cumulative revenue: €5.4bn/year vs €4.1bn for WooCommerce. Exclusive lebot.in analysis of 80,333 merchants verified by SIREN — July 2026.

155,000 French e-commerce companies with verified SIREN, CMS platform, decision-maker contacts and 134 data fields per record. The most comprehensive B2B dataset on French online retail.

Identifying the SIREN registration number of an online store from its URL is more complex than it appears. The server IP tells you nothing about the company, legal notices may be missing or misleading, and the INPI does not have a domain-name search engine. Here is the complete process — manual and automated.

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The DAC7 directive (2021/514/EU) requires marketplace operators to collect and verify the legal data of their sellers — and report it annually to tax authorities. For French e-commerce merchants, the key verification is the SIREN number. Here is what the obligation concretely requires, and how to automate it.

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