E-invoice rule XRechnung
BR-DE-1: XRechnung requires payment instructions (BG-16)
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XRechnung requires payment instructions (BG-16). Add cac:PaymentMeans with a payment means code.
What the rule says
[BR-DE-1] Eine Rechnung (INVOICE) muss Angaben zu "PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS" (BG-16) enthalten.
Source of the quotation: XRechnung 3.x (itplr-kosit/xrechnung-schematron, Apache 2.0 licence)
Business terms in the wording: BG-16
Why the validator reports it
The rule belongs to the German XRechnung. Our checker runs it only when the value of cbc:CustomizationID (BT-24) starts with urn:cen.eu:en16931:2017#compliant#urn:xeinkauf.de:kosit:xrechnung_.
Profile: XRechnung 3.x
How we rate it: error
UBL elements: cac:PaymentMeans
How to fix it
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Related rules
Same business term (BG-16)
- BR-49 Payment instructions (BG-16) need a payment means code (BT-81) in…
Same group (BR-DE, BR-TMP)
- BR-DE-2 XRechnung requires seller contact details (BG-6)
- BR-DE-3 The seller address is missing the city (BT-37, cbc:CityName)
- BR-DE-4 The seller address is missing the post code (BT-38, cbc:PostalZone)
- BR-DE-5 The seller contact details are missing the contact point name
All rules in the group BR-DE, BR-TMP (34)
What our tool does about this error
The checker finds BR-DE-1 in your file and shows where it sits in the XML. If you build the invoice in our generator, the finished XML runs through the same checker before the download and will not download while an error remains.
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