BR-07

The invoice must contain the buyer name (BT-44) — the name the recipient expects the invoice under.

Severity: Error
Applies to: CII, UBL
Rule set: v2026-01-31

Official rule text

An Invoice shall contain the Buyer name (BT-44).

Why does BR-07 happen?

Customer master data usually holds several name fields: display name, search term, invoice recipient. The mapping reads one that is empty for some customers because it is only maintained for searching.

How do you fix BR-07?

Set BT-44 to the name of the invoice recipient: cac:AccountingCustomerParty/cac:Party/cac:PartyLegalEntity/cbc:RegistrationName in UBL, ram:BuyerTradeParty/ram:Name in CII.

In the XML

A UBL fragment. The CII path is named above — same change, different element names.

Fails

<cac:AccountingCustomerParty>
  <cac:Party>
    <cac:PostalAddress>
      <cbc:CityName>Bonn</cbc:CityName>
    </cac:PostalAddress>
  </cac:Party>
</cac:AccountingCustomerParty>

Fixed

<cac:AccountingCustomerParty>
  <cac:Party>
    <cac:PostalAddress>
      <cbc:CityName>Bonn</cbc:CityName>
    </cac:PostalAddress>
    <cac:PartyLegalEntity>
      <cbc:RegistrationName>Behörde Bonn</cbc:RegistrationName>
    </cac:PartyLegalEntity>
  </cac:Party>
</cac:AccountingCustomerParty>

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