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BR-FR-23_EXT-FR-FE-98: Buyer's service provider electronic address must use only allowed characters

In short

Fatal: fails the selected checks.

BR-FR-23_EXT-FR-FE-98 means the electronic address of the buyer's service provider (EXT-FR-FE-98), using scheme 0225, contains an unsupported character. Confirm the correct address and enter it using only letters A to Z and a to z, digits, plus signs, hyphens, underscores and full stops.

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What it means

In UBL invoices and credit notes, this rule checks cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:ServiceProviderParty/cac:Party/cbc:EndpointID only when schemeID is 0225. The electronic address may contain only letters A to Z and a to z, digits, plus signs (+), hyphens (-), underscores (_) and full stops (.).

Why it matters

The French rules restrict the characters you can use in this service provider's electronic address with scheme 0225. A value outside that set fails this check.

How to fix it

Find the electronic address of the buyer's service provider (EXT-FR-FE-98). Confirm the address and its scheme with that provider, then correct cbc:EndpointID or its schemeID in UBL, or ram:InvoiceeTradeParty/ram:URIUniversalCommunication/ram:URIID or its schemeID in CII, if either was recorded incorrectly. Do not simply strip characters from an address without verifying it. Export the corrected file and check it again.

Once the file is corrected, check it again for free: Check an e-invoice

The rule as published

L'adresse électronique (cbc:EndpointID) ne respecte pas le format autorisé. Valeur actuelle : " … ". Seuls les caractères alphanumériques et les symboles "-", "_", "." sont autorisés.

Where this rule applies

Rule set Version
France CTC (UBL invoice) 1.4.0-04
France CTC (UBL credit note) 1.4.0-04
France CTC (CII) 1.4.0-04
Rule text from phive-rules 4.6.4.

Check your file

Drop your e-invoice to see whether BR-FR-23_EXT-FR-FE-98 still fails, and which other rules do.

Updated 8 November 2026