Rule reference

PEPPOL-COMMON-R040 The Seller electronic address (BT-34) is "7300010000002" under scheme "0088", which identifies the GS1 Global Location Number

The Seller electronic address (BT-34) is "7300010000002" under scheme "0088", which identifies the GS1 Global Location Number. A value in that scheme must be digits only, with a GS1 mod-10 check digit in the last position, and this one is not. A GLN is self-checking by design: the final digit closes a weighted sum to a multiple of ten, which is what lets a scanner reject a misread barcode rather than route a pallet to the wrong dock. The same digit rejects a mistyped invoice address here, before an access point tries to resolve it. Peppol flags this fatal: the identifier is what an access point resolves to find your counterparty, so a value that fails its own check digit is undeliverable. This is a Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 profile rule: it applies because profile is "peppol-bis-3". It does not apply to the en16931, xrechnung-ubl or xrechnung-cii profiles, whose validators will accept the same document.

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Business term
BT-34
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": "PEPPOL-COMMON-R040",
  "field": "BT-34",
  "severity": "fatal",
  "message": "The Seller electronic address (BT-34) is \"7300010000002\" under scheme \"0088\", which identifies the GS1 Global Location Number. A value in that scheme must be digits only, with a GS1 mod-10 check digit in the last position, and this one is not. A GLN is self-checking by design: the final digit closes a weighted sum to a multiple of ten, which is what lets a scanner reject a misread barcode rather than route a pallet to the wrong dock. The same digit rejects a mistyped invoice address here, before an access point tries to resolve it. Peppol flags this fatal: the identifier is what an access point resolves to find your counterparty, so a value that fails its own check digit is undeliverable. This is a Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 profile rule: it applies because profile is \"peppol-bis-3\". It does not apply to the en16931, xrechnung-ubl or xrechnung-cii profiles, whose validators will accept the same document.",
  "fix": "Correct seller.electronicAddress, or change its scheme identifier if the value belongs to a different register. A check digit failing almost always means one digit was transposed or dropped in transcription — compare it against the source register rather than re-typing it.",
  "example": "\"electronicAddress\": { \"schemeId\": \"0088\", \"value\": \"7300010000001\" }",
  "xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID",
  "docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/PEPPOL-COMMON-R040"
}

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
"electronicAddress": { "schemeId": "0088", "value": "7300010000001" }

The fix

Correct seller.electronicAddress, or change its scheme identifier if the value belongs to a different register. A check digit failing almost always means one digit was transposed or dropped in transcription — compare it against the source register rather than re-typing it.

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