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
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. A public-sector payer must have a named human route to query the invoice.
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- Business term
BG-6- 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-DE-2",
"field": "BG-6",
"severity": "fatal",
"message": "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. A public-sector payer must have a named human route to query the invoice.",
"fix": "Set seller.contact with all three of name, phone and email. A shared departmental identity is fine and usually preferable to a named individual.",
"example": "\"contact\": { \"name\": \"Buchhaltung\", \"phone\": \"+49 30 1234567\", \"email\": \"rechnungen@example.de\" }",
"xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact",
"docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-DE-2"
}
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
"contact": { "name": "Buchhaltung", "phone": "+49 30 1234567", "email": "rechnungen@example.de" }The fix
Set seller.contact with all three of name, phone and email. A shared departmental identity is fine and usually preferable to a named individual.