InvoiceGlass

Extra UBL field “Address / Payment instructions › payee account › financial institution branch › financial institution” · UBL-CR-431

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

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

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/cac:FinancialInstitution/cac:Address.
  2. Adjust the export to omit cac:Address 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/cac:FinancialInstitution/cac:Address returns at least one match.

Message to the sender

Hello,

rule UBL-CR-431 was triggered when checking electronic invoice {invoiceNumber}. The validator flagged address under “payment instructions › payee account › financial institution branch › financial institution”. Could you check the export and send us a corrected file?

Kind regards

Example

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

Rule versions

CEN · EN 16931 (KoSIT) 1.3.16

CEN · EN 16931 1.3.17

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