InvoiceGlass

Extra UBL field “Name / Payment instructions › payee account › financial institution branch” · UBL-CR-429

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

The CEN check flags the XML element cbc:Name in UBL invoices and credit notes. It checks for name under “payment instructions › payee account › financial institution branch”.

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:PaymentMeans/cac:PayeeFinancialAccount/cac:FinancialInstitutionBranch/cbc:Name.
  2. Adjust the export to omit cbc:Name 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:PaymentMeans/cac:PayeeFinancialAccount/cac:FinancialInstitutionBranch/cbc:Name returns at least one match.

Message to the sender

Hello,

rule UBL-CR-429 was triggered when checking electronic invoice {invoiceNumber}. The validator flagged name under “payment instructions › payee account › financial institution branch”. Could you check the export and send us a corrected file?

Kind regards

Example

The rule flags cbc:Name under “payment instructions › payee account › financial institution branch”. The corrected export omits that element from the affected section.

UBL

cac:PaymentMeans/cac:PayeeFinancialAccount/cac:FinancialInstitutionBranch/cbc:Name

Fails the rule
<cbc:Name>Example GmbH</cbc:Name>

Corrected
<!-- optional element omitted -->

Rule versions

CEN · EN 16931 (KoSIT) 1.3.16

CEN · EN 16931 1.3.17

Validate a file