Attestwire

Rule reference

BR-CO-26 In order for the buyer to automatically identify you, the invoice must carry at least one of the seller identifier (BT-29), seller legal registration identifier (BT-30) or seller VAT identifier (BT-31)

In order for the buyer to automatically identify you, the invoice must carry at least one of the seller identifier (BT-29), seller legal registration identifier (BT-30) or seller VAT identifier (BT-31). A name and address alone are not machine-resolvable to a supplier record.

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Business term
BT-30 / BT-31
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-CO-26",
  "field": [
    "BT-30",
    "BT-31"
  ],
  "severity": "fatal",
  "message": "In order for the buyer to automatically identify you, the invoice must carry at least one of the seller identifier (BT-29), seller legal registration identifier (BT-30) or seller VAT identifier (BT-31). A name and address alone are not machine-resolvable to a supplier record.",
  "fix": "Set seller.vatId (BT-31) if you are VAT-registered, otherwise seller.legalRegistrationId (BT-30) such as your commercial-register number.",
  "example": "\"seller\": { \"vatId\": \"DE123456789\", \"legalRegistrationId\": \"HRB 12345\" }",
  "docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-CO-26"
}

A passing value

the shape this field expects
"seller": { "vatId": "DE123456789", "legalRegistrationId": "HRB 12345" }

The fix

Set seller.vatId (BT-31) if you are VAT-registered, otherwise seller.legalRegistrationId (BT-30) such as your commercial-register number.

All 58 rules →

Nearby: BR-DE-1 — XRechnung requires payment instructions (BG-16) with a payment means type code (BT-81); BR-CO-16 — BR-CO-16 requires the amount due for payment (BT-115) to equal BT-112 − paid amount (BT-113) + rounding amount (BT-114); BR-DE-2 — XRechnung requires the seller contact group (BG-6), and requires it complete: contact point (BT-41), telephone number (BT-42) and email address (BT-43) are each individually mandatory under BR-DE-5, BR-DE-6 and BR-DE-7.

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

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