UBL-CR-164: The seller's address should not include a district element

What it means

UBL lets a postal address name a district, such as a neighbourhood or borough within a city. EN 16931 has no field for it. The seller's address (BG-5) has the street (BT-35), extra address lines (BT-36 and BT-162), the city (BT-37), the post code (BT-38), the country subdivision (BT-39) and the country code (BT-40). This rule fails whenever cbc:District is present, even if it is empty.

Why it matters

This rule is a warning, so the invoice is still accepted. The recipient's software has nowhere to store the district, so it is ignored. It is worth fixing when the district is needed to find the address, since it will not be read where it is.

How to fix it

In your invoicing software, check the address of your own company and put the district in an address line or in the city field. If you build the XML yourself, delete cbc:District from cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress. Then add the text to cbc:AdditionalStreetName or to a cac:AddressLine/cbc:Line.

The rule as published

A UBL invoice should not include the AccountingSupplierParty Party PostalAddress District

Where this rule applies