InvoiceGlass

Extra UBL field “Company legal form / Payee › legal registration details” · UBL-CR-279

  • Severity · Warning
  • Applies to · UBL
  • Editorial review pending

The CEN check flags the XML element cbc:CompanyLegalForm in UBL invoices and credit notes. It checks for company legal form under “payee › legal registration details”.

As of

Who can correct it?

The invoicing software provider can correct the export.

How to fix it

  1. Find the entry in the UBL export at cac:PayeeParty/cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:CompanyLegalForm.
  2. Adjust the export to omit cbc:CompanyLegalForm at this location. If you need the information, first check where the selected profile expects it.

Rule text and source

Paraphrase · The test reports a finding as soon as cac:PayeeParty/cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:CompanyLegalForm returns at least one match.

Message to the sender

Hello,

rule UBL-CR-279 was triggered when checking electronic invoice {invoiceNumber}. The validator flagged company legal form under “payee › legal registration details”. Could you check the export and send us a corrected file?

Kind regards

Example

The rule flags cbc:CompanyLegalForm under “payee › legal registration details”. The corrected export omits that element from the affected section.

UBL

cac:PayeeParty/cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:CompanyLegalForm

Fails the rule
<cbc:CompanyLegalForm>GmbH</cbc:CompanyLegalForm>

Corrected
<!-- optional element omitted -->

Rule versions

CEN · EN 16931 (KoSIT) 1.3.16

CEN · EN 16931 1.3.17

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