Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 · rule

UBL-CR-359

Layer en16931·Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

What does UBL-CR-359 mean? A UBL invoice should not include the Delivery DeliveryLocation Address ID

Why did my invoice fail UBL-CR-359?

The invoice should not contain the ID element on the delivery location's Address (cac:Delivery/cac:DeliveryLocation/cac:Address/cbc:ID). The delivery location identifier (BT-71) is carried on the location itself (cac:DeliveryLocation/cbc:ID); an identifier on the Address element has no business term in the EN 16931 core model.

Official rule text

A UBL invoice should not include the Delivery DeliveryLocation Address ID

Common causes

The location identifier (e.g. a GLN) is placed on the Address instead of on DeliveryLocation
An internal address-record key is serialised into the XML

How do I fix it?

<cac:DeliveryLocation>
  <cbc:ID schemeID="0088">7300010000001</cbc:ID>
  <cac:Address>
    <cbc:CityName>Ljubljana</cbc:CityName>
    <cac:Country><cbc:IdentificationCode>SI</cbc:IdentificationCode></cac:Country>
  </cac:Address>
</cac:DeliveryLocation>
<!-- the identifier (BT-71) goes on DeliveryLocation, not on Address -->

Check your invoice against this rule

Paste it into the live demo, or call POST /v1/validate. See the quickstart.