UBL-SR-19: The payee needs one name, different from the seller's

What it means

The payee is the party that receives the payment when that is not the seller, for example a factoring company or a group company that collects for you. The rule checks the payee name (BT-59) in cac:PayeeParty/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name. It must appear at most once, and it must not be identical to the seller name (BT-27). Because the test compares the two names, a missing payee or seller name element, or identical names, also makes it fail.

Why it matters

The payee block exists to tell the buyer that the money goes to someone other than the seller.

How to fix it

If you are paid yourself, leave the payee fields empty in your invoicing software so that no payee is exported. If a different party is paid, such as a factoring company, enter its own name once in the payee name field. Check that the payee name is not a copy of the seller name, since the rule compares the two texts. Make sure the seller name element is present too. In the XML, this is a single cbc:Name in cac:PayeeParty/cac:PartyName.

The rule as published

Payee name shall occur maximum once, if the Payee is different from the Seller

Where this rule applies