BR-DE-5 XRechnung requires the element "Seller contact point" (BT-41)
XRechnung requires the element "Seller contact point" (BT-41). The seller contact group is present but incomplete — BR-DE-5, BR-DE-6 and BR-DE-7 each make one part of it mandatory, so supplying two of the three still fails.
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- Business term
BT-41- 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-5",
"field": "BT-41",
"severity": "fatal",
"message": "XRechnung requires the element \"Seller contact point\" (BT-41). The seller contact group is present but incomplete — BR-DE-5, BR-DE-6 and BR-DE-7 each make one part of it mandatory, so supplying two of the three still fails.",
"fix": "Set seller.contact.name to the person or desk that answers invoice queries — a department name such as \"Buchhaltung\" is acceptable.",
"example": "\"contact\": { \"name\": \"Buchhaltung\" }",
"xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact/cbc:Name",
"docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/BR-DE-5"
}
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" }The fix
Set seller.contact.name to the person or desk that answers invoice queries — a department name such as "Buchhaltung" is acceptable.