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PEPPOL-EN16931-R002: more than one note

Peppol BIS allows one note at document level (BT-22). The official message adds an exception for invoices where both parties are German organisations.

What the validator reports

PEPPOL-EN16931-R002: No more than one note is allowed on document level, unless both the buyer and seller are German organizations.

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

How to fix it

Join the texts into one note. Put payment wording into the payment terms (BT-20) and remarks about one product or service into that line's note (BT-127).

In the XML (UBL)

<cbc:Note>Thank you for your business.</cbc:Note>

With the Valinvo API (JSON)

"notes": ["Thank you for your business."]

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