BR-10 An invoice must contain the buyer postal address (BG-8)
An invoice must contain the buyer postal address (BG-8). For cross-border supplies it is what distinguishes a domestic sale from a reverse-charge or intra-community one.
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- Business term
BG-8- Severity
fatal
What the library returns
The exact object in result.errors when this rule fires.
Generated by running @attestwire/en16931, not transcribed:
{
"rule": "BR-10",
"field": "BG-8",
"severity": "fatal",
"message": "An invoice must contain the buyer postal address (BG-8). For cross-border supplies it is what distinguishes a domestic sale from a reverse-charge or intra-community one.",
"fix": "Set buyer.address with at least city, postalCode and countryCode.",
"example": "\"address\": { \"city\": \"Wien\", \"postalCode\": \"1010\", \"countryCode\": \"AT\" }",
"xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress",
"docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-10"
}
xpath locates the element in the generated UBL document,
which is where a KoSIT or Peppol validator will report the same problem.
A passing value
"address": { "city": "Wien", "postalCode": "1010", "countryCode": "AT" }The fix
Set buyer.address with at least city, postalCode and countryCode.