Reference

BR-07 Buyer name is required

An invoice shall contain the Buyer name (BT-44), the name under which the customer is registered or known.

This is an EN 16931 core rule. The invoice must state clearly who is billed. In UBL the name belongs in cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:RegistrationName; a name only in cac:PartyName/cbc:Name does not satisfy BR-07. The error often appears when the customer master data holds a short name but no legal name. In CII, BT-44 is ram:BuyerTradeParty/ram:Name.

Solution

Provide cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:RegistrationName with the buyer’s name.

Quick actions

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Valid Examples

BT-44 = Beispiel Einkauf AG — buyer registration name populated

Invalid Examples

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

Code Examples

Valid XML

<cac:AccountingCustomerParty>
  <cac:Party>
    <cac:PartyLegalEntity>
      <cbc:RegistrationName>Beispiel Einkauf AG</cbc:RegistrationName>
    </cac:PartyLegalEntity>
  </cac:Party>
</cac:AccountingCustomerParty>

Invalid XML

<cac:AccountingCustomerParty>
  <cac:Party>
    <cac:PartyLegalEntity>
      <cbc:CompanyID>DE987654321</cbc:CompanyID>
    </cac:PartyLegalEntity>
  </cac:Party>
</cac:AccountingCustomerParty>