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Rule reference

BR-17 The invoice carries a payee group (BG-10), so it must carry a payee name (BT-59)

The invoice carries a payee group (BG-10), so it must carry a payee name (BT-59). BG-10 exists for exactly one purpose: to say that the money goes somewhere other than to the seller — to a factor, a parent company, an insolvency administrator. An empty name states that redirection without naming the recipient, which is the one thing the buyer's payment run cannot act on, and which a bank will not accept as a payment instruction.

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Business term
BT-59
Severity
fatal

What the library returns

The exact object in result.errors when this rule fires. Generated by running @attestwire/en16931, not transcribed:

TeachingError
{
  "rule": "BR-17",
  "field": "BT-59",
  "severity": "fatal",
  "message": "The invoice carries a payee group (BG-10), so it must carry a payee name (BT-59). BG-10 exists for exactly one purpose: to say that the money goes somewhere other than to the seller — to a factor, a parent company, an insolvency administrator. An empty name states that redirection without naming the recipient, which is the one thing the buyer's payment run cannot act on, and which a bank will not accept as a payment instruction.",
  "fix": "Set payee.name to the legal name of the party that is to receive the payment, or remove the payee object entirely if payment goes to the seller.",
  "example": "\"payee\": { \"name\": \"Factoring Nord GmbH\" }",
  "xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:PayeeParty/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name",
  "docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-17"
}

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

the shape this field expects
"payee": { "name": "Factoring Nord GmbH" }

The fix

Set payee.name to the legal name of the party that is to receive the payment, or remove the payee object entirely if payment goes to the seller.

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Nearby: BR-18 — The invoice carries a seller tax representative group (BG-11), so it must carry the tax representative's name (BT-62); BR-16 — An invoice must have at least one invoice line (BG-25); BR-19 — The invoice carries a seller tax representative group (BG-11), so it must carry the representative's postal address (BG-12).

Check this rule against your invoice via the hosted API → https://api.attestwire.com/docs

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