E-invoice / Rules / ARL-IBAN

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ARL-IBAN: Check the account number for a typo

Check the account number for a typo.

Original wording of the rule

This is our own check, not a rule from a schematron. That is why no external wording is quoted here.

How to fix it

1. Open the XML file and find the element cac:PayeeFinancialAccount/cbc:ID.
2. Add or correct the element the way the wording of the rule above asks for.
3. Save the file and check it again with our checker. It runs in your browser, the file is never uploaded.

A correct UBL 2.1 snippet

<cac:PayeeFinancialAccount
    xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
  <cbc:ID>SK3112000000198742637541</cbc:ID>
</cac:PayeeFinancialAccount>

The snippet is only the part of the document the rule is about. Put it in the right place inside your invoice; the namespaces are written here only so that the snippet reads on its own.

When it is reported

Profile: EN 16931, Peppol BIS Billing 3.0, XRechnung 3.x

How we rate it: error

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:PaymentMeans/cac:PayeeFinancialAccount/cbc:ID

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• ARL-DATUM The date "…" in cbc:IssueDate is not a valid calendar day written
• ARL-DATUM-PORADIE The payment due date (…) is earlier than the issue date (2026-09-11)
• ARL-ICDPH We expect SK followed by 10 digits, for example SK2020000000
• ARL-LEITWEG The buyer reference "…" looks like a German Leitweg-ID but does
• ARL-MENA The element cbc:Amount carries the currency USD while the invoice

Our check is not complete: we do not check the XSD schema and we do not implement every rule, and a file that passes says nothing about whether the buyer or the Peppol network will accept it. Licences for the quoted wordings are listed in our sources.