XRechnung (Germany)

BR-DE-6

Seller contact telephone (BT-42) required

What it means

Within the SELLER CONTACT group, the telephone number (BT-42) must be present.

How to fix it

Add cac:Contact/cbc:Telephone for the seller party (e.g. <cbc:Telephone>+49 30 1234567</cbc:Telephone>).

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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