Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 · rule

UBL-CR-411

Layer en16931·Checked against Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 2026.5

What does UBL-CR-411 mean? A UBL invoice should not include the PaymentMeans ID

Why did my invoice fail UBL-CR-411?

The UBL element cac:PaymentMeans/cbc:ID should not be used in an EN 16931 invoice. The payment instructions group (BG-16) identifies the means of payment by its type code (BT-81, cbc:PaymentMeansCode), not by a separate ID element.

Official rule text

A UBL invoice should not include the PaymentMeans ID

Common causes

Assigning an internal payment-method identifier to cbc:ID
Confusing cbc:ID with cbc:PaymentID (the remittance information, BT-83, which is allowed)
Serializer emitting an ID for every UBL structure

How do I fix it?

<cac:PaymentMeans>
  <cbc:PaymentMeansCode>30</cbc:PaymentMeansCode>
  <cbc:PaymentID>RF18539007547034</cbc:PaymentID>
</cac:PaymentMeans>

Check your invoice against this rule

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