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PEPPOL-EN16931-R007: business process not approved

The business process (BT-23) must be one of the identifiers Peppol approves. A typo, an invented value or the identifier of another process fails this rule.

What the validator reports

PEPPOL-EN16931-R007: Business process MUST have an approved identifier.

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

How to fix it

Use the Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 process identifier shown below, exactly as written.

In the XML (UBL)

<cbc:ProfileID>urn:fdc:peppol.eu:2017:poacc:billing:01:1.0</cbc:ProfileID>

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