Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 · rule
UBL-CR-204
What does UBL-CR-204 mean? A UBL invoice should not include the AccountingCustomerParty Party MarkCareIndicator
Why did my invoice fail UBL-CR-204?
This EN 16931 rule warns when the UBL element cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cbc:MarkCareIndicator is present: the invoice should not include a mark-care ("care of") indicator on the buyer party. EN 16931 does not model care-of delivery flags; buyer addressing is fully described by the buyer postal address group (BG-8), so this indicator has no business term. The element is not forbidden by UBL itself, but it lies outside the EN 16931 core invoice model, so remove it to keep the invoice fully conformant and interoperable.
Official rule text
A UBL invoice should not include the AccountingCustomerParty Party MarkCareIndicator
Common causes
- Postal handling flags exported from a logistics-oriented system
- Schema-driven generator emitting every optional Party attribute
- Copy-paste from a full UBL 2.1 sample
Related rules
UBL-CR-001 · UBL-CR-002 · UBL-CR-003 · UBL-CR-004 · UBL-CR-005 · UBL-CR-006 · UBL-CR-007 · UBL-CR-008
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