Qualiopi v10: 33 indicators, in force since 1 November 2026
Decree no. 2026-728 took the Qualiopi referential from 32 to 33 indicators for audits from 1 November 2026. What changed, and how a continuity tracker keeps proof per indicator instead of a folder of screenshots.
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A Qualiopi audit runs against the referential in force on the day it happens, not the one in force when the organisation last certified. That is why decree no. 2026-728 matters more than a routine document update: it also changed 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 what an audit finds affects that access. A change to the referential is easy to miss until an audit date is close.
What changed on 1 November 2026
The new referential, v10, lists 33 indicators, up from 32. Indicator 33 is new and applies only to apprentice training centres (CFA). Every other type of training organisation works against 32 indicators, 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 dozen that changed.
Organisations that are not CFAs can, in principle, ignore indicator 33. The referential does not say which of the other 32 changed, so reading all of them against the new wording is part of the update.
Which referential applies to your audit
The audit date decides, whatever the certification anniversary or the date preparation started. Any audit held on or after 1 November 2026 is assessed against v10 in full, even if the organisation began gathering evidence under the 32-indicator version months earlier. Plan the evidence review from the audit date backward.
A gap found at audit takes far more time to close than a re-check of the evidence beforehand would have. Qualiopi conditions OPCO funding, so a gap at audit can reach the training budget.
Why the dozen reworded indicators are the harder problem
Most organisations never meet indicator 33, because it is CFA-only. The reworded indicators touch evidence that every certified organisation already gathers: session records, trainer qualifications, satisfaction data and complaint handling. When an indicator’s wording changes, a proof folder built for the old phrasing does not automatically map onto the new one. Re-checking evidence against the new language, indicator by indicator, is the actual audit-preparation work.
A reworded indicator sometimes asks for more evidence, sometimes narrows what counts and sometimes broadens it. The only way to know is to read the new wording against what is already on file.
What a continuity tracker does about it
- Evidence status tracked per indicator, all 33, instead of 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 answer
- A connection to the organisation’s existing tools instead of a second spreadsheet nobody keeps updated
Most organisations today keep a folder of screenshots and PDFs, one per requirement, refreshed by hand whenever someone remembers. That looks fine until an assessor asks for the one piece of evidence nobody updated after the wording changed.
That is the shape of the Qualiopi continuity tracker AINS builds. It sits next to the organisation’s CRM or session tool and watches the 33 rows that matter for the audit.
Where AINS built this for a real Qualiopi organisation
Formalthys, a Qualiopi-certified training organisation, runs its CRM and trainer portal on the same stack AINS builds continuity tracking into. 10+ n8n flows already automate trainer scheduling and transactional email there, so Qualiopi evidence sits next to session and trainer records instead of in a separate folder. The Formalthys case study has the fuller picture, and the Qualiopi continuity tracker shows the tracker itself.
If your next audit falls under v10 and you have not mapped your evidence against the reworded indicators yet, start here: Qualiopi tracking for training organisations →
The evidence counts per indicator can sit on the same screen as revenue per course: see KPI dashboards. The pre-audit check and the training packs are listed on the services page.