BR-CO-10 in your own invoice? Upload the file and find every error in seconds.
What does BR-CO-10 mean?
Sum of Invoice line net amount (BT-106) = Σ Invoice line net amount (BT-131). This is a consistency rule of EN 16931: the amounts must add up, otherwise the invoice does not hold together.
Common causes of BR-CO-10
- The sum or consistency condition does not add up.
- A partial amount or a line was left out of the sum.
- Rounding was not carried out cleanly to 2 decimal places.
How to fix BR-CO-10
- Find the faulty spot in the XML. Open the XML of the invoice and go to field BT-106 along this XPath:
//ram:SpecifiedTradeSettlementHeaderMonetarySummation/ram:LineTotalAmount - Apply the fix. Sum of Invoice line net amount (BT-106) must equal the sum of all 'ram:LineTotalAmount' (BT-131). Check how the total is built.
- Validate again. Save the file and validate it again to check that BR-CO-10 is no longer reported.
Concrete fix
Sum of Invoice line net amount (BT-106) must equal the sum of all 'ram:LineTotalAmount' (BT-131). Check how the total is built.
XPath
//ram:SpecifiedTradeSettlementHeaderMonetarySummation/ram:LineTotalAmountFrequent questions about BR-CO-10
How do I fix BR-CO-10?
Sum of Invoice line net amount (BT-106) must equal the sum of all 'ram:LineTotalAmount' (BT-131). Check how the total is built.
Related error codes
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