BR-25

Every invoice line must carry an item name (BT-153). Without one the row states an amount for something unnamed.

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

Official rule text

Each Invoice line (BG-25) shall contain the Item name (BT-153).

Why does BR-25 happen?

The description comes from a long-text field that is allowed to be empty, while the internal article number is always populated. The mapping reads the long text and finds nothing.

How do you fix BR-25?

Put a short description in cac:Item/cbc:Name in UBL, ram:SpecifiedTradeProduct/ram:Name in CII. The full text belongs beside it in BT-154 and the article number in BT-155.

In the XML

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

Fails

<cac:InvoiceLine>
  <cbc:ID>1</cbc:ID>
  <cbc:InvoicedQuantity unitCode="C62">10</cbc:InvoicedQuantity>
  <cbc:LineExtensionAmount currencyID="EUR">1000.00</cbc:LineExtensionAmount>
  <cac:Price>
    <cbc:PriceAmount currencyID="EUR">100.00</cbc:PriceAmount>
  </cac:Price>
</cac:InvoiceLine>

Fixed

<cac:InvoiceLine>
  <cbc:ID>1</cbc:ID>
  <cbc:InvoicedQuantity unitCode="C62">10</cbc:InvoicedQuantity>
  <cbc:LineExtensionAmount currencyID="EUR">1000.00</cbc:LineExtensionAmount>
  <cac:Item>
    <cbc:Name>Beratungsleistung</cbc:Name>
  </cac:Item>
  <cac:Price>
    <cbc:PriceAmount currencyID="EUR">100.00</cbc:PriceAmount>
  </cac:Price>
</cac:InvoiceLine>

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