DE-R-T02: If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, BT-124 "External…
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What this error means and how to fix it
A national rule of Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 for the country in the rule prefix (for example NO, DK, IT, SE, GR): it usually applies when the seller is in that country. This is a warning: on its own it does not reject the invoice.
Warnings are not repaired automatically. The free check shows every finding in the file with its location; if other errors in the same file are in the automatic set (totals, VAT breakdown, rounding, element order), the result page offers the corrected file for 9 €.
Rule text
[DE-R-T02]-If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, BT-124 "External document location" must contain an absolute URL with valid scheme.
Where the rule is checked (XPath context and test)
Syntax
Severity
Context (XPath)
Test (XPath)
Peppol-UBL
warning
(/ubl-invoice:Invoice/cac:AdditionalDocumentReference/cac:Attachment/cac:ExternalReference | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote/cac:AdditionalDocumentReference/cac:Attachment/cac:ExternalReference)[$supplierCountryIsDE and $customerCountryIsDE]