E-invoice / Rules / PEPPOL-EN16931-R002

E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

PEPPOL-EN16931-R002: Only one invoice note (BT-22, cbc:Note)

Only one invoice note (BT-22, cbc:Note) is allowed on document level. The file has 2. Merge them into one.

Original wording of the rule

No more than one note is allowed on document level, unless both the buyer and seller are German organizations.

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

How to fix it

1. Open the XML file and find the element cbc:Note.
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

<cbc:Note
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">Splatnost 14 dni od vystavenia.</cbc:Note>

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

UBL elements: cbc:Note

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cbc:Note[2]

Related rules

• PEPPOL-EN16931-R001 The business process (BT-23, cbc:ProfileID) is missing
• PEPPOL-EN16931-R003 Add either the buyer reference (BT-10, cbc:BuyerReference)
• PEPPOL-EN16931-R004 For Peppol, cbc:CustomizationID (BT-24) has to start with urn:cen.eu:en
• PEPPOL-EN16931-R005 The VAT accounting currency (BT-6) has to differ from the invoice
• PEPPOL-EN16931-R007 The business process (BT-23, cbc:ProfileID) has to look like

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.