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BR-25 Every invoice line must have an item name

noun · EN 16931 · fatal · BT-153

For a sample invoice, the library reports: Line 1 has no item name (BT-153). The buyer must be able to tell what was supplied from the invoice alone; an internal SKU in place of a name does not satisfy this.

Business term

BT-153

Severity

fatal

The fix

Set line.description to a short human-readable item name, and put any longer explanation in line.longDescription (BT-154).

A passing value

"description": "Senior engineering consultancy"

What the library returns

The full error returned by @attestwire/en16931. It includes the rule ID, affected field and suggested correction. Developers can use this object in their application:

{
  "rule": "BR-25",
  "field": "BT-153",
  "severity": "fatal",
  "message": "Line 1 has no item name (BT-153). The buyer must be able to tell what was supplied from the invoice alone; an internal SKU in place of a name does not satisfy this.",
  "fix": "Set line.description to a short human-readable item name, and put any longer explanation in line.longDescription (BT-154).",
  "example": "\"description\": \"Senior engineering consultancy\"",
  "xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:InvoiceLine[1]/cac:Item/cbc:Name",
  "docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-25"
}

xpath is always a UBL path. On a CII invoice, look for the matching CII field instead.