What does PEPPOL-COMMON-R040 mean?

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E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

PEPPOL-COMMON-R040: A GLN needs a valid check digit under the GS

A GLN needs a valid check digit under the GS1 rules.

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Original wording of the rule

GLN must have a valid format according to GS1 rules.

Source of the quotation: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 (OpenPEPPOL, peppol-bis-invoice-3)

How to fix it

Open the XML file and find the element cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID.
Add or correct the element the way the wording of the rule above asks for.
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A correct UBL 2.1 snippet

<cac:Party
    xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
  <cbc:EndpointID schemeID="0245">2120000001</cbc:EndpointID>
</cac:Party>

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: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

How we rate it: error

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID

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