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PEPPOL-COMMON-R047 An Italian VAT number under scheme 0211 should be well formed
noun · Peppol BIS · warning · BT-46
For a sample invoice, the library reports: The Buyer identifier (BT-46) is "IT01234567890" under scheme "0211", which identifies the Italian VAT number (Partita IVA). A value in that scheme must be "IT" followed by eleven digits whose last digit is a Luhn-style check digit, and this one is not.
- Business term
BT-46- Severity
warning
The fix
Correct buyer.identifier, 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.
A passing value
"identifier": { "schemeId": "0211", "value": "IT01234567897" }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": "PEPPOL-COMMON-R047",
"field": "BT-46",
"severity": "warning",
"message": "The Buyer identifier (BT-46) is \"IT01234567890\" under scheme \"0211\", which identifies the Italian VAT number (Partita IVA). A value in that scheme must be \"IT\" followed by eleven digits whose last digit is a Luhn-style check digit, and this one is not. The Partita IVA check digit is computed by doubling every second digit and summing the results digit by digit, which catches the transposition that a plain length check does not. Note that a value not beginning with IT passes this rule untested — Peppol only checks what it can recognise. Peppol flags this one as a warning rather than a rejection, so the document will be delivered — but a wrong identifier is delivered to the wrong place, or to nowhere. 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 buyer.identifier, 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": "\"identifier\": { \"schemeId\": \"0211\", \"value\": \"IT01234567897\" }",
"xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyIdentification/cbc:ID",
"docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/PEPPOL-COMMON-R047"
}
xpath is always a UBL path. On a CII invoice, look for the
matching CII field instead.