E-invoice rule EN 16931 schematron
BR-CO-12: The charge total does not add up
The charge total does not add up: cbc:ChargeTotalAmount (BT-108) is 10.00, the sum of the document level charges is 0.00.
Original wording of the rule
[BR-CO-12]-Sum of charges on document level (BT-108) = Σ Document level charge amount (BT-99).
Source of the quotation: EN 16931 schematron (ConnectingEurope/eInvoicing-EN16931, licence EUPL 1.2)
How to fix it
- Open the XML file and find the element
cbc:ChargeTotalAmount. - Add or correct the element the way the wording of the rule above asks for.
- 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
<cbc:ChargeTotalAmount
xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2" currencyID="EUR">100.00</cbc:ChargeTotalAmount>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
UBL elements: cbc:ChargeTotalAmount
Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:LegalMonetaryTotal/cbc:ChargeTotalAmount
Related rules
- BR-CO-10 Correct the total or the line amounts
- BR-CO-11 The allowance total does not add up: cbc:AllowanceTotalAmount (BT-107)
- BR-CO-13 The invoice total without VAT (BT-109) should be the line total minus
- BR-CO-14 The invoice total VAT amount (BT-110, cac:TaxTotal/cbc:TaxAmount)
- BR-CO-15 The invoice total with VAT (BT-112) should be the total without VAT
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