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DE-R-005

fatalPeppol BIS Billing 3.0profileUBLBT-41

The element "Seller contact point" (BT-41) shall be provided.

Why it fails

The seller contact point (BT-41) is missing from the seller contact group.

How to fix it

Add a contact name or department, e.g. 'Accounts Receivable' (UBL Contact/cbc:Name).

What the validator checks

UBL — context (/ubl-invoice:Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact)[$supplierCountryIsDE and $customerCountryIsDE]

cbc:Name[boolean(normalize-space(.))]

Related rules

Part of DE-R — XRechnung via Peppol.

Check your own invoice against DE-R-005

…or paste the XML instead

Nothing is stored, and the whole invoice is checked, not just this rule. A PDF only works if it is Factur-X / ZUGFeRD — a PDF with the invoice XML inside it.

This is a Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 rule: an invoice can be perfectly valid EN 16931 and still be rejected by it.