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BR-DE-5: seller contact name missing

The seller contact (BG-6) needs a contact point (BT-41): usually the name of a person or a department.

What the validator reports

BR-DE-5: Das Element "Seller contact point" (BT-41) 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

Fill in the name of the contact person or department in the seller contact.

In the XML (UBL)

<cac:Contact>
  <cbc:Name>Erika Mustermann</cbc:Name>
</cac:Contact>

With the Valinvo API (JSON)

"contact": {
  "name": "Erika Mustermann"
}

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