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BR-DE-2: seller contact missing

XRechnung requires a contact for the seller (group BG-6), so that the buyer knows whom to ask about the invoice. It belongs inside the seller party.

What the validator reports

BR-DE-2: Die Gruppe "SELLER CONTACT" (BG-6) muss übermittelt werden.

This is the message our validator returns for an invoice with this problem. The text is the official rule text.

The official XRechnung rule texts are published in German, so the message is in German.

How to fix it

Add a seller contact. It then needs a name, a phone number and an email address, as the three following rules check.

In the XML (UBL)

<cac:Contact>
  <cbc:Name>Erika Mustermann</cbc:Name>
  <cbc:Telephone>+49 30 1234567</cbc:Telephone>
  <cbc:ElectronicMail>billing@example-software.de</cbc:ElectronicMail>
</cac:Contact>

With the Valinvo API (JSON)

"contact": {
  "name": "Erika Mustermann",
  "phone": "+49 30 1234567",
  "email": "billing@example-software.de"
}

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