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Error

FX-SCH-A-000708: Do not repeat the end user's identifier field

In short

Error: fails the selected checks.

FX-SCH-A-000708 means a product end user block in your invoice contains more than one direct ram:ID element. Keep at most one ram:ID in that block.

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What it means

Each ram:ProductEndUserTradeParty under ram:ApplicableHeaderTradeAgreement may contain zero or one direct ram:ID child. This check does not count ram:GlobalID or identifiers nested inside the legal organisation.

Why it matters

The Extended profile allows at most one direct ram:ID field in each product end user block.

How to fix it

Keep the appropriate end user identifier and remove any additional ram:ID elements directly inside ram:ProductEndUserTradeParty in your CII XML. Do not remove ram:GlobalID or the legal organisation's ram:ID to fix this rule. Export the corrected file and recheck it.

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The rule as published

Element 'ram:ID' may occur at maximum 1 times.

Where this rule applies

Rule set Version
Factur-X 1.09 EXTENDED 1.0.9-2
ZUGFeRD 2.5 EXTENDED 2.5.2
Rule text from phive-rules 4.6.4.

Check your file

Drop your e-invoice to see whether FX-SCH-A-000708 still fails, and which other rules do.

Updated 6 November 2026