XRechnung 3.0.2 (KoSIT 2026-08-31) · UBL / CII · Severity: ERROR
XRechnung requires Seller contact point (BT-41)
The seller contact group (BG-6) must provide a non-empty contact point or person/department name (BT-41).
- Rule ID & Severity
BR-DE-5· ERROR- Standard & Scope
- XRechnung 3.0.2 (KoSIT 2026-08-31) · UBL / CII
- XPath Condition
exists(cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact/cbc:Name[normalize-space(.) != ""])- Target XML Path
cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact/cbc:Name
Find the source field
cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:Contact/cbc:Name
Match namespace URI and element name, not a particular prefix spelling. The validator reports the full expanded-name source path when the published rule supplies a location.
Common causes
- Contact person name was empty in the seller company profile.
Invalid and corrected fragments
<cac:Contact><cbc:Telephone>+49 30 123456</cbc:Telephone><cbc:ElectronicMail>billing@example.de</cbc:ElectronicMail></cac:Contact>
<cac:Contact><cbc:Name>Accounts Receivable</cbc:Name><cbc:Telephone>+49 30 123456</cbc:Telephone><cbc:ElectronicMail>billing@example.de</cbc:ElectronicMail></cac:Contact>
Provide a person or department name in cac:Contact/cbc:Name (UBL) or ram:DefinedTradeContact/ram:PersonName (CII).
Open BR-DE-5 in xrechnung-validator →
Verify the whole document
These are fragments, not complete invoices. The exact rule is exercised by synthetic mutation tests against the stated package. Correcting one field does not prove conformance; run the full selected validator again. Published messages and severity remain authoritative.
Explanation record: 2026-10-14 · Local WebAssembly / SaxonJS validation. No invoice-derived report is published as a search page.