Validation rules

BR-26 — EN 16931 rule

An invoice line has no item net price (BT-146).

Rule: BR-26 — official EN 16931 / XRechnung rule
Severity: error
Business term: BT-146 — Item net price
Field in your JSON: invoice.lines[*].unit_price
Detected by: tier 3 — KoSIT validator (authoritative)
Reachability: Only reachable when validating your own XML — normbill-generated documents cannot trigger it

The request schema requires line.unit_price (>= 0).

How to fix it

Add cac:Price/cbc:PriceAmount to the line.

BR-26 auf Deutsch — was bedeutet der Fehler?

Eine Rechnungsposition hat keinen Netto-Einzelpreis (BT-146).

So beheben Sie den Fehler

Ergänzen Sie cac:Price/cbc:PriceAmount in der Position.

Related rules

PEPPOL-EN16931-R046 — The item net price must equal the gross price minus the price allowance when a gross price is provided.
BR-27 — The item net price (BT-146) must not be negative.
BR-25 — An invoice line has no item name (BT-153).
BR-24 — An invoice line has no line net amount (BT-131).
BR-28 — The item gross price (BT-148) must not be negative.
BR-29 — The invoicing period end date (BT-74) must not be earlier than its start date (BT-73).

Official sources

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.

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