Validation rules
BR-09
The seller address has no country code (BT-40).
- Rule
BR-09— official EN 16931 / XRechnung rule- Severity
- error
- Business term
BT-40— Seller country- Field in your JSON
invoice.seller.address.country- Detected by
- tier 3 — KoSIT validator (authoritative)
- Reachability
- Only reachable when validating your own XML — normbill-generated documents cannot trigger it
invoice.seller.address.country is required by the request schema.
How to fix it
Add cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode with an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code to the supplier postal address.
BR-09 auf Deutsch — was bedeutet der Fehler?
In der Verkäuferanschrift fehlt der Ländercode (BT-40).
So beheben Sie den Fehler
Ergänzen Sie cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode mit einem ISO-3166-1-Alpha-2-Code in der Verkäuferanschrift.
Official sources
- XRechnung specification (KoSIT / xeinkauf.de)
- KoSIT validator on GitHub and the XRechnung validator configuration
Every 422 from the API lists the rule id, the path in your request JSON, a plain-language message and a suggested fix — see the docs overview for the report format.