What it means
The delivery information (BG-13) may appear only once on an invoice or credit note. That block holds the delivery date (BT-72), the delivery address and the name of the party the goods were delivered to (BT-70). The rule counts the cac:Delivery elements directly under the invoice or credit note and fails when there are two or more.
Why it matters
EN 16931 allows at most one delivery information block per invoice or credit note.
How to fix it
Check the delivery details in your invoicing software and keep at most one delivery information block. In the XML there must be at most one cac:Delivery directly under the invoice or credit note.
Once the file is corrected, check it again for free: Validate an invoice against EN 16931
Or fix the invoice in a form and download the corrected file, for 1 credit: Fix a rejected e-invoice
The rule as published
Deliver to information shall occur maximum once Where this rule applies
| Rule set | Version |
|---|---|
| EN 16931 (UBL) | 1.3.17 |
| EN 16931 (UBL credit note) | 1.3.17 |
| XRechnung 3.0 (UBL) | 3.0.2 |
| XRechnung 3.0 (UBL credit note) | 3.0.2 |
| Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 (invoice) | 2026.5 |
| Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 (credit note) | 2026.5 |
| SI-UBL 2.0 / NLCIUS (invoice) | 2.0.3.13 |
| SI-UBL 2.0 / NLCIUS (credit note) | 2.0.3.13 |
| France CTC (UBL invoice) | 1.4.0-04 |
| France CTC (UBL credit note) | 1.4.0-04 |
| CIUS-RO UBL Invoice 1.0.9 | 1.0.9 |
| CIUS-RO UBL Credit Note 1.0.9 | 1.0.9 |
Check your file
Drop your e-invoice to see whether UBL-SR-24 still fails, and which other rules do.
Related rules
- UBL-SR-25 A delivery party needs exactly one name
- UBL-SR-26 A payment block can have only one payment reference
- UBL-SR-27 Only one payment means code per payment block
- UBL-SR-28 A payment block can have only one mandate reference
- UBL-SR-29 Only one SEPA creditor identifier is allowed in the invoice
- UBL-SR-30 A discount can have only one reason text