E-invoice rule EN 16931 schematron
BR-CO-16: The amount due for payment (BT-115)
The amount due for payment (BT-115) should be the total with VAT 604.30 minus the paid amount 0.00 plus the rounding amount 0.00, that is 604.30.
Original wording of the rule
[BR-CO-16]-Amount due for payment (BT-115) = Invoice total amount with VAT (BT-112) -Paid amount (BT-113) +Rounding amount (BT-114).
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
cac:LegalMonetaryTotal/cbc:PayableAmount. - 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
<cac:LegalMonetaryTotal
xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
<cbc:PayableAmount currencyID="EUR">100.00</cbc:PayableAmount>
</cac:LegalMonetaryTotal>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:LegalMonetaryTotal/cbc:PayableAmount
Related rules
- 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
- BR-CO-17 The VAT in the breakdown does not match: taxable amount
- BR-CO-18 The VAT breakdown (BG-23) is missing
- BR-CO-19 The invoicing period is present but empty
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