What it means
The invoicee is the party the invoice is addressed to, when that is not the buyer. The postal address inside its company registration details (ram:SpecifiedLegalOrganization) may hold at most one country subdivision name (ram:CountrySubDivisionName), meaning a region, county, state or province. The file has two or more.
Why it matters
The profile defines one region field in this address. A reader of the file expects one value, so a second one can lead to the file being rejected or to part of the address being ignored.
How to fix it
Open the registered address of the invoicee in your invoicing software and look at the region, county or state fields. Keep one value and clear the others, then export again. If you build the XML yourself, keep a single ram:CountrySubDivisionName in ram:InvoiceeTradeParty/ram:SpecifiedLegalOrganization/ram:PostalTradeAddress.
Once the file is corrected, check it again for free: Validate a ZUGFeRD invoice
Or fix the invoice in a form and download the corrected file, for 1 credit: Fix a rejected e-invoice Beta
The rule as published
Element 'ram:CountrySubDivisionName' 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 |
Check your file
Drop your e-invoice to see whether FX-SCH-A-000879 still fails, and which other rules do.
Related rules
- FX-SCH-A-000880 Use an allowed country code in the invoicee's registered address
- FX-SCH-A-000881 The invoicee's tax registration needs one identifier element
- FX-SCH-A-000882 The invoicee's tax registration needs a scheme
- FX-SCH-A-000883 The invoicee's electronic address entry needs one address
- FX-SCH-A-000884 The invoicee's electronic address needs a scheme
- FX-SCH-A-000885 The invoicee's electronic address scheme must use an allowed code