XRechnung (Germany)

BR-DE-2

Seller contact (BG-6) required

What it means

XRechnung requires the SELLER CONTACT group (BG-6) — a contact point at the seller — to be present.

How to fix it

Add cac:Contact under the seller party with a contact name (BT-41), a telephone number (BT-42) and an email address (BT-43).

Catch this before it reaches the receiving authority:

# CLI
npx @eleata/validate-einvoice validate invoice.xml --format xrechnung-ubl

# GitHub Action — fail the build on any invalid invoice
- uses: hernaninverso/validate-einvoice-action@v1
  with:
    files: invoices/**/*.xml
    api-key: ${{ secrets.EINVOICE_API_KEY }}

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