`PEPPOL-EN16931-R001`

Peppol BIS Billing 3 · validation rule

Peppol BIS Billing 3Error

Peppol requires the business process identifier (BT-23). The sender must fill cbc:ProfileID / ram:BusinessProcessSpecifiedDocumentContextParameter/ram:ID, e.g. 'urn:fdc:peppol.eu:2017:poacc:billing:01:1.0'.

Field: document.business_process (BT-23)
Rule set: Peppol BIS Billing 3
Rule-set version: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 (rules master, Sep 2026) · in force since 2026-09-07 · Rule-set changelog
Who has to fix it: The sender

This is a property of the file you received, so it cannot be corrected on your side without changing the document — ask the supplier to reissue it.

Worked example · UBL

Peppol needs the business process (BT-23) as well as the specification id: cbc:ProfileID right after cbc:CustomizationID.

Fails this rule

<!-- no cbc:ProfileID after cbc:CustomizationID -->

Passes

<cbc:ProfileID>urn:fdc:peppol.eu:2017:poacc:billing:01:1.0</cbc:ProfileID>

Check your own invoice

Drop the file that failed. We parse it, run the official rule sets against it and list every finding with a fix — 20 invoices per day, no key, nothing stored.

Open the live demo

Same explanation over the API: GET /v1/rules/PEPPOL-EN16931-R001?lang=en