InvoiceGlass

Extra UBL field “Allowance or charge reason / Invoice or credit note line › item price › allowance or charge” · UBL-CR-634

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

The CEN check flags the XML element cbc:AllowanceChargeReason in UBL invoices and credit notes. It checks for allowance or charge reason under “invoice or credit note line › item price › 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:Price/cac:AllowanceCharge/cbc:AllowanceChargeReason.
  2. Adjust the export to omit cbc:AllowanceChargeReason 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:Price/cac:AllowanceCharge/cbc:AllowanceChargeReason returns at least one match.

Message to the sender

Hello,

rule UBL-CR-634 was triggered when checking electronic invoice {invoiceNumber}. The validator flagged allowance or charge reason under “invoice or credit note line › item price › allowance or charge”. Could you check the export and send us a corrected file?

Kind regards

Example

The rule flags cbc:AllowanceChargeReason under “invoice or credit note line › item price › allowance or charge”. The corrected export omits that element from the affected section.

UBL

(cac:InvoiceLine|cac:CreditNoteLine)/cac:Price/cac:AllowanceCharge/cbc:AllowanceChargeReason

Fails the rule
<cbc:AllowanceChargeReason>Example</cbc:AllowanceChargeReason>

Corrected
<!-- optional element omitted -->

Rule versions

CEN · EN 16931 (KoSIT) 1.3.16

CEN · EN 16931 1.3.17

Validate a file