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Australia (Peppol): Payment Instructions

Australia has specific requirements for how payment instructions or means are to be modeled.

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In Australian invoices, the Payment Instructions must be provided at least once in the PaymentMeans group.

Also, when the Payment Means Code in the element /PaymentMeansCode is equal to the following, then the Payee Financial Account ID in the element cac:PayeeFinancialAccount/ID must also be provided:

  • 30 = Credit Transfer (preferred for local transfers)
  • 58 = SEPA Credit Transfer (intended for international payments in Euros and is rarely appropriate for Australian domestic payments)
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Example

<Invoice>
    <!-- code omitted for clarity -->
   a<cac:PaymentMeans>
        <PaymentMeansCode name="Credit transfer">30</PaymentMeansCode>
        <PaymentID>Snippet1</PaymentID>
        <cac:PayeeFinancialAccount>
            <ID>IBAN32423940</ID>
            <Name>AccountName</Name>
            <cac:FinancialInstitutionBranch>
                <ID>BIC324098</ID>
            </cac:FinancialInstitutionBranch>
        </cac:PayeeFinancialAccount>
    </cac:PaymentMeans>
    <!-- code omitted for clarity -->
</Invoice>

Updated about 22 hours ago