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Extra UBL field “Payment instructions / Invoice or credit note line › allowance or charge” · UBL-CR-560

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

The CEN check flags the XML element cac:PaymentMeans in UBL invoices and credit notes. It checks for payment instructions under “invoice or credit note line › allowance or charge”.

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:InvoiceLine|cac:CreditNoteLine)/cac:AllowanceCharge/cac:PaymentMeans.
  2. Adjust the export to omit cac:PaymentMeans 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:InvoiceLine|cac:CreditNoteLine)/cac:AllowanceCharge/cac:PaymentMeans returns at least one match.

Message to the sender

Hello,

rule UBL-CR-560 was triggered when checking electronic invoice {invoiceNumber}. The validator flagged payment instructions under “invoice or credit note line › allowance or charge”. Could you check the export and send us a corrected file?

Kind regards

Example

The rule flags cac:PaymentMeans under “invoice or credit note line › allowance or charge”. 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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