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.

• DE-R-001
• DE-R-002
• DE-R-003
• DE-R-004
• DE-R-005
• DE-R-006
• DE-R-007
• DE-R-008
• DE-R-009
• DE-R-010
• DE-R-011
• DE-R-014
• DE-R-015
• DE-R-016
• DE-R-017
• DE-R-018
• DE-R-019
• DE-R-020
• DE-R-022
• DE-R-023-1
• DE-R-023-2
• DE-R-024-1
• DE-R-024-2
• DE-R-025-1

Validate an invoice against this rule →

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