BR-02

An Invoice shall have an Invoice number (BT-1).

Severity
Rejects the invoice
Applies to
CII, UBL
Family
BR
  • BT-1

Why it fires

An invoice number is what both parties use to reference the document later, in payment remittance and in audit. The standard makes it unconditionally mandatory.

How to fix

Set the invoice number. In CII it is ExchangedDocument/ID; in UBL it is cbc:ID at the document root.

About the BR family

Core invoice rules. These govern the fields every EN 16931 invoice must carry, regardless of VAT treatment or country.

Related rules

Others in the BR family:

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Rule text comes from the EN 16931 validation artefacts published by CEN/TC 434 and the European Commission, used unmodified under the European Union Public Licence v1.2. The artefacts are available from the upstream repository.
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