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UBL-SR-25: A delivery party needs exactly one name

In short

Fatal: fails the selected checks.

UBL-SR-25 means the delivery party on the invoice does not have exactly one name (BT-70) under EN 16931, XRechnung, France CTC or CIUS-RO, or has more than one name under Peppol BIS or NLCIUS. Give the party one name, or remove the delivery party if you do not need it, and export again.

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What it means

If delivery information includes a party that receives the goods (cac:DeliveryParty), the delivery block must contain exactly one deliver to party name (BT-70) in total, counted at cac:DeliveryParty/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name; Peppol BIS and NLCIUS allow zero or one instead. If the delivery block has no cac:DeliveryParty, this rule passes.

Why it matters

EN 16931 requires exactly one delivery party name within a delivery block when a delivery party is included. The Peppol BIS and NLCIUS checks allow zero or one name instead.

How to fix it

Fill in the name of the party the goods were delivered to, once, or leave the name out for Peppol BIS and NLCIUS. If you have no delivery party to name, remove it; the delivery date and address do not depend on it. In the XML, each cac:Delivery that contains cac:DeliveryParty needs exactly one cac:DeliveryParty/cac:PartyName/cbc:Name in total, except in Peppol BIS and NLCIUS, which allow zero or one.

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 party name 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
Rule text from phive-rules 4.6.4.

Check your file

Drop your e-invoice to see whether UBL-SR-25 still fails, and which other rules do.

Updated 8 November 2026