PEPPOL-EN16931-R010 The buyer electronic address (BT-49) must be provided
The buyer electronic address (BT-49) must be provided. This is the routing identifier a Peppol access point uses to deliver the document — a postal address and an email are not substitutes, and without it the invoice cannot be addressed on the network.
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- Business term
BT-49- Severity
warning
What the library returns
The exact object in result.errors when this rule fires.
Generated by running @attestwire/en16931, not transcribed:
{
"rule": "PEPPOL-EN16931-R010",
"field": "BT-49",
"severity": "warning",
"message": "The buyer electronic address (BT-49) must be provided. This is the routing identifier a Peppol access point uses to deliver the document — a postal address and an email are not substitutes, and without it the invoice cannot be addressed on the network.",
"fix": "Set buyer.electronicAddress to the participant identifier and its scheme, e.g. scheme \"9930\" (German VAT ID) or \"0204\" (Leitweg-ID). The full list is the Peppol EAS code list (ISO 6523 ICD).",
"example": "\"electronicAddress\": { \"schemeId\": \"9930\", \"value\": \"DE123456789\" }",
"xpath": "/ubl:Invoice/cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID",
"docsUrl": "https://attestwire.com/rules/PEPPOL-EN16931-R010"
}
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
"electronicAddress": { "schemeId": "9930", "value": "DE123456789" }The fix
Set buyer.electronicAddress to the participant identifier and its scheme, e.g. scheme "9930" (German VAT ID) or "0204" (Leitweg-ID). The full list is the Peppol EAS code list (ISO 6523 ICD).