E-invoice / Rules / PEPPOL-EN16931-R061

E-invoice rule Peppol BIS Billing 3.0

PEPPOL-EN16931-R061: With a direct debit (payment means 59)

With a direct debit (payment means 59) the mandate reference identifier (BT-89) has to be given in cac:PaymentMandate/cbc:ID.

Original wording of the rule

Mandate reference MUST be provided for direct debit.

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 cac:PaymentMandate/cbc:ID.
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

<cac:PaymentMandate
    xmlns:cac="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonAggregateComponents-2"
    xmlns:cbc="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:CommonBasicComponents-2">
  <cbc:ID>2026-0142</cbc:ID>
</cac:PaymentMandate>

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: cac:PaymentMandate/cbc:ID

Where we point in the file: /Invoice/cac:PaymentMeans

Related rules

• 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
• PEPPOL-EN16931-R080 Only one project reference (BT-11) is allowed on document level
• PEPPOL-EN16931-R100 Line 1: only one invoice line object reference (cac:DocumentReference)
• PEPPOL-EN16931-R101 Line 1: inside a line, cac:DocumentReference is only used

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