Reference

BR-06 Seller name is required

An invoice shall contain the Seller name (BT-27), the full legal name under which the supplier is registered; a differing trading name belongs in BT-28.

This is an EN 16931 core rule. The buyer must be able to identify who issued the invoice. In UBL the name belongs in cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:RegistrationName; a name that appears only in cac:PartyName/cbc:Name is the trading name (BT-28) and does not satisfy BR-06. A common cause is an export that writes only the trading name. In CII, BT-27 is ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:Name.

Solution

Provide cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:RegistrationName with the seller’s name.

Quick actions

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Valid Examples

BT-27 = Muster Handels GmbH — seller registration name populated

Invalid Examples

cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:RegistrationName is missing for the supplier party

Code Examples

Valid XML

<cac:AccountingSupplierParty>
  <cac:Party>
    <cac:PartyLegalEntity>
      <cbc:RegistrationName>Muster Handels GmbH</cbc:RegistrationName>
    </cac:PartyLegalEntity>
  </cac:Party>
</cac:AccountingSupplierParty>

Invalid XML

<cac:AccountingSupplierParty>
  <cac:Party>
    <cac:PartyLegalEntity>
      <cbc:CompanyID>DE123456789</cbc:CompanyID>
    </cac:PartyLegalEntity>
  </cac:Party>
</cac:AccountingSupplierParty>