InvoiceGlass

Extra UBL field “Allowance or charge reason / Item price › allowance or charge” · UBL-CR-670

  • 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 “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: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:Price/cac:AllowanceCharge/cbc:AllowanceChargeReason returns at least one match.

Message to the sender

Hello,

rule UBL-CR-670 was triggered when checking electronic invoice {invoiceNumber}. The validator flagged allowance or charge reason under “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 “item price › allowance or charge”. The corrected export omits that element from the affected section.

UBL

//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