Reference

BR-10 Buyer postal address is required

An invoice shall contain the Buyer postal address (BG-8), the group describing where the customer is located.

This is an EN 16931 core rule. The buyer address is needed to determine the place of supply for VAT, so the buyer address group must be present even when the invoice is sent electronically. The error often appears when the customer record holds only an e-mail or portal address. In CII, BG-8 is ram:BuyerTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress.

Solution

Add cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress with at least the country code and the applicable address components.

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Valid Examples

BG-8 present with cac:PostalAddress containing city, postal code and country

Invalid Examples

The customer party has no cac:PostalAddress element at all

Code Examples

Valid XML

<cac:Party>
  <cac:PostalAddress>
    <cbc:CityName>Muenchen</cbc:CityName>
    <cbc:PostalZone>80331</cbc:PostalZone>
    <cac:Country>
      <cbc:IdentificationCode>DE</cbc:IdentificationCode>
    </cac:Country>
  </cac:PostalAddress>
</cac:Party>

Invalid XML

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

Affected Fields

BG-8 Buyer postal address

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