BR-8 in your own invoice? Upload the file and find every error in seconds.
What does BR-8 mean?
An Invoice shall contain the Seller postal address (BG-5). It belongs to the mandatory data of the European standard EN 16931; without it the invoice is structurally incomplete and gets rejected.
Common causes of BR-8
- The mandatory element is missing entirely from the structured XML.
- The value appears only in the visible PDF layout, not in the XML.
- The element was sent empty.
How to fix BR-8
- Find the faulty spot in the XML. Open the XML of the invoice and go to field BG-5 along this XPath:
//ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress - Apply the fix. Add the Seller postal address (BG-5) in 'ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress' (at least with CountryID).
- Validate again. Save the file and validate it again to check that BR-8 is no longer reported.
Concrete fix
Add the Seller postal address (BG-5) in 'ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress' (at least with CountryID).
XPath
//ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddressFrequent questions about BR-8
How do I fix BR-8?
Add the Seller postal address (BG-5) in 'ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress' (at least with CountryID).
Related error codes
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