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DE-R-027

warningPeppol BIS Billing 3.0profileUBLBT-42

"Seller contact telephone number" (BT-42) should contain a valid telephone number. A valid telephone should consist of 3 digits minimum.

Why it fails

The seller telephone number (BT-42) has fewer than three digits.

How to fix it

Write a real telephone number. Placeholders such as '-' or 'n/a' fail this check.

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]

matches(normalize-space(cbc:Telephone), $XR-TELEPHONE-REGEX)

Related rules

Part of DE-R — XRechnung via Peppol.

Check your own invoice against DE-R-027

…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.