E-invoice / Rules / PEPPOL-EN16931-R051
E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0
PEPPOL-EN16931-R051: Every amount has to be in the invoice currency
Every amount has to be in the invoice currency (EUR).
Original wording of the rule
All currencyID attributes must have the same value as the invoice currency code (BT-5), except for the invoice total VAT amount in accounting currency (BT-111).
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:AllowanceCharge/cbc:Amount. - 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:AllowanceCharge
xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
<cbc:Amount currencyID="EUR">100.00</cbc:Amount>
</cac:AllowanceCharge>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:AllowanceCharge[1]/cbc:Amount
Related rules
- PEPPOL-EN16931-R044 A charge is not allowed on price level
- PEPPOL-EN16931-R046 The item net price (BT-146) should be the gross price minus the price
- PEPPOL-EN16931-R053 The document needs exactly one cac:TaxTotal group carrying the VAT
- PEPPOL-EN16931-R054 A cac:TaxTotal group without a VAT breakdown is allowed only when
- PEPPOL-EN16931-R055 The VAT amount in the invoice currency (BT-110) and in the VAT
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