einvoice / EN 16931 / XRechnung rule reference

BR-61

If the Payment means type code (BT-81) means SEPA credit transfer, Local credit transfer or Non-SEPA international credit transfer, the Payment account identifier (BT-84) shall be present.

Wenn der Code für das Zahlungsmittel (BT-81) eine SEPA-Überweisung, eine nationale Überweisung oder eine internationale Nicht-SEPA-Überweisung bezeichnet, muss die Kennung des Zahlungskontos (BT-84) vorhanden sein.

Deutsche Fassung: Übersetzung der gleichen BT/BG-Semantik (translation — not the official assert).

Requires: If the Payment means type code (BT-81) means SEPA credit transfer, Local credit transfer or Non-SEPA international credit transfer, the Payment account identifier (BT-84) shall be present.
Business terms: BT-81 BT-84
Syntax: Binds the UBL-2.1 Invoice / CreditNote syntax and the UN/CEFACT-CII syntax
Location (UBL-2.1 path): cac:PaymentMeans
Fix: Add the required element at `cac:PaymentMeans`: If the Payment means type code (BT-81) means SEPA credit transfer, Local credit transfer or Non-SEPA international credit transfer, the Payment account identifier (BT-84) shall be present.
Fix (Deutsch): Ergänzen Sie das erforderliche Element bei `cac:PaymentMeans`: Wenn der Code für das Zahlungsmittel (BT-81) eine SEPA-Überweisung, eine nationale Überweisung oder eine internationale Nicht-SEPA-Überweisung bezeichnet, muss die Kennung des Zahlungskontos (BT-84) vorhanden sein.
Severity: fatal
Provenance source: en16931-ubl
Provenance assert: If the Payment means type code (BT-81) means SEPA credit transfer, Local credit transfer or Non-SEPA international credit transfer, the Payment account identifier (BT-84) shall be present.

The Location above is a UBL-2.1 path, and no UN/CEFACT-CII path for this rule is published here; Fix and Fix (Deutsch), verbatim from remediation_catalog.json and not reworded here; the UN/CEFACT-CII binding of this rule is differentially proven against the official CEN EN 16931 1.3.16 Schematron.

Everything here is free and open source — pick up whatever helps, at your own pace:

Licensing — Apache-2.0 for everyone, including closed-source embedding; an optional $29 / $290 commercial license adds support and rule-corpus update notices.
German remediation (--lang de) — the German fix for this rule is in the section above; the CLI surfaces it in place of the English message with --lang de.
Quickstart / free on-ramp — the README, a copy-paste CI-gate recipe, and a 5-minute worked walkthrough.

Rendered verbatim from remediation_catalog.json (single source of truth); regenerate with gen_site.py. This page is self-contained and opens offline with no network requests.