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Germany B2G: Credit Transfer

If you specify Credit Transfer as the Payment Means, you must specify the Payee's bank account.

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This element is mandatory if you specify 50 or58 in the PaymentMeansCodè sub-element (indicating a credit transfer), as described in the Germany: Payment Means Code topic.

Elements

Use the following sub-elements of the PaymentMeans element:

Element (Path)CardinalityDescription
Credit Transfer Group (Invoice/PaymentMeans/PayeeFinancialAccount)0..1A group of elements to specify credit transfer payments.
Payment Account Identifier (Invoice/PaymentMeans/PayeeFinancialAccount/ID)1..1The identifier of the Payee's bank account.
Payment Account Name (Invoice/PaymentMeans/PayeeFinancialAccount/Name)0..1The name of the Payee's bank account.
Financial Institution Branch (Invoice/PaymentMeans/PayeeFinancialAccount/Name/ FinancialInstitutionBranch/)0..1Financial Institution Branch group.
Financial Institution Branch (Invoice/PaymentMeans/PayeeFinancialAccount/Name/ FinancialInstitutionBranch/ID)1..1The identifier for the Payee's bank or other financial institution.

Example

<ubl:Invoice>
    <!-- Code omitted for clarity -->
    </cac:PaymentMeans>
        <cbc:PaymentMeansCode>58</cbc:PaymentMeansCode>
        <!-- Code omitted for clarity -->
        <cac:PayeeFinancialAccount>
            <cbc:ID>DE75512108001245126199</cbc:ID>
            <cbc:Name>[Payment account name]</cbc:Name>
            <cac:FinancialInstitutionBranch>
                <cbc:ID>[BIC]</cbc:ID>
            </cac:FinancialInstitutionBranch>
        </cac:PayeeFinancialAccount>
    </cac:PaymentMeans>
    <!-- Code omitted for clarity -->
</ubl:Invoice>

Updated 13 days ago