Qualiopi's v10 referential: 33 indicators from 1 November 2026

A Qualiopi audit runs against whatever referential is in force on the day it happens, not the day the training organisation last certified. That single fact is why decree no. 2026-728 matters more than a routine document update: it takes the referential from 32 indicators to 33, effective for every audit from 1 November 2026, and it changes the wording of roughly a dozen indicators that most organisations already thought they had covered.

Qualiopi is the certification French training organisations need to access OPCO-funded training budgets, so an audit isn't an optional formality — it's what stands between an organisation and its funding. A referential change this close to an audit date is exactly the kind of news that gets missed until it's too late to prepare for.

What actually changes on 1 November 2026

The new referential — v10 — lists 33 indicators in total, up from 32. Indicator 33 is entirely new, and it applies only to apprentice training centres (CFA); every other type of training organisation keeps working against 32, about a dozen of which were reworded or restructured in this revision. Reading '33 indicators' as 'one new box to tick' misses the harder part: most of the real work is in the twelve that changed, not the one that's new.

Training organisations that aren't CFAs can, in principle, ignore indicator 33 entirely — but the referential document itself doesn't flag which of the other 32 changed and which didn't, so 'ignore the new one' is not the same as 'ignore the update.'

Which referential applies to your audit

The rule is simple, and worth repeating because it trips people up: the audit date decides the referential, not your certification anniversary, not the date you started preparing. An audit scheduled for 3 November 2026 is assessed against v10 in full, even if the organisation began its evidence-gathering cycle under the old 32-indicator version months earlier. Plan the evidence review from the audit date backward, not from the decree's publication date forward — the gap between those two dates is where most organisations run out of runway.

Missing that window has a real cost. Qualiopi certification is what conditions OPCO funding in the first place, and a corrective-action finding raised during an audit takes far more time to resolve after the fact than a re-check of evidence beforehand would have.

Why the dozen modified indicators are the harder problem

Most organisations will never see indicator 33 — it's CFA-only. But the roughly twelve modified indicators touch evidence categories every Qualiopi-certified organisation already gathers: session records, trainer qualifications, satisfaction data, complaint handling. When an indicator's wording changes, an old proof folder built for the previous phrasing doesn't automatically map onto the new one. Re-checking evidence against updated language, indicator by indicator, is the actual audit-prep work here — not adding a 33rd folder most organisations don't need.

A reformulated indicator doesn't always ask for more evidence — sometimes it narrows what counts, sometimes it broadens it, and either way the only way to know is to read the new wording against what's already on file, rather than assuming last cycle's proof still qualifies.

What a continuity tracker does about it

• Evidence status tracked per indicator, all 33, not a single shared checklist
• Missing or outdated evidence flagged automatically, before an assessor finds the gap
• An audit countdown, so 'how many weeks until this needs to be ready' has an actual answer
• Connected to the organisation's existing tools rather than a second spreadsheet nobody keeps updated

The alternative most organisations run today is a folder of screenshots and PDFs, one per requirement, refreshed by hand whenever someone remembers. That looks fine right up until an assessor asks for the one piece of evidence nobody updated after the wording changed.

That's the shape of the Qualiopi continuity tracker we build: it doesn't replace the organisation's CRM or session-management tool, it sits next to it and watches the 33 rows that matter for the audit.

Where we built this for a real Qualiopi organisation

Formalthys, a Qualiopi-certified training organisation, runs its CRM and trainer portal on the same stack we build continuity tracking into — 12 n8n flows already automate trainer scheduling and transactional email there, so Qualiopi evidence sits next to session and trainer records instead of living in a separate folder someone has to remember to update. The case study is worth reading if you want the fuller picture: /work/formalthys.

If your next audit falls on or after 1 November 2026 and you haven't mapped your evidence against the reworded indicators yet, the training page walks through what the continuity tracker actually covers: /training.