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India IRP: Additional Supporting Documents

You can model additional supporting documents for India.

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You can model the following types of additional supporting documents for India:

  • Shipping Details: For imports and exports to a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), you can model the Shipping Bill Number per the Indian Customs EDI System (ICES) if it applies and is available when the e-invoice is created.
  • Transport Document Number and Date.
  • Attachments: For example, you may want to attach a PDF version of the e-invoice.

More general information about additional supporting documents is provided in the VRBL: Additional Document References topic.

Elements

You can use the following sub-elements of the AdditionalDocumentReference element:

Name (Path)CardinalityDescription
Shipping Bill Number (Invoice/AdditionalDocumentReference[ID/@schemeID="AEV"]/ID)0..1Shipping bill number per the Indian Customs EDI System (ICES).
Shipping Bill Date (Invoice/AdditionalDocumentReference[ID/@schemeID="AEV"]/IssueDate)0..1Date of Shipping Bill per the Indian Customs EDI System (ICES).
Transport Document Number (Invoice/AdditionalDocumentReference[ID/@schemeID="AAS"]/cbc:ID)0..1Transport Document Number. See Restrictions section below.
Transport Document Date (/Invoice/AdditionalDocumentReference[ID/@schemeID="AAS"]/cbc:IssueDate)0..1Date of Transport document. See Restrictions section below.
Additional Information (/Invoice/AdditionalDocumentReference/DocumentDescription)0..1Any additional Information.
Embedded Document (/Invoice/AdditionalDocumentReference/Attachment/EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject)0..1Embedded document in Base64 format.
Attachment URL (/Invoice/AdditionalDocumentReference/Attachment/ExternalReference/cbc:URI)0..1URL of the supported document.

Restrictions

  • The Transport Document Number and Transport Document Date are optional for the E-Waybill. It can be used in the embedded version of E-Waybill.

Examples

Shipping Bill Number and Date

<Invoice>
    <!-- code omitted for clarity -->
	<cac:AdditionalDocumentReference>
		<cbc:ID schemeID="AEV">112233</cbc:ID>
		<cbc:IssueDate>2025-09-01</cbc:IssueDate>
	</cac:AdditionalDocumentReference>
	<!-- code omitted for clarity -->
</Invoice>

Transport Document Number and Date

<Invoice>
    <!-- code omitted for clarity -->
	<cac:AdditionalDocumentReference>
		<cbc:ID schemeID="AAS">2334</cbc:ID>
		<cbc:IssueDate>2025-09-01</cbc:IssueDate>
	</cac:AdditionalDocumentReference>
	<!-- code omitted for clarity -->
</Invoice>

Attachment

<Invoice>
    <!-- code omitted for clarity -->
	<cac:AdditionalDocumentReference>
		<cbc:ID>INVOICE-111113</cbc:ID>
		<cbc:DocumentDescription>PDF version of xml invoice</cbc:DocumentDescription>
		<cac:Attachment>
			<cbc:EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject mimeCode="application/pdf" filename="invoice.pdf">aW5k...aWEK</cbc:EmbeddedDocumentBinaryObject>
			<cac:ExternalReference>
				<cbc:URI>my-invoice/asafsd/INVOICE-111113.pdf</cbc:URI>
			</cac:ExternalReference>
		</cac:Attachment>
	</cac:AdditionalDocumentReference>
	<!-- code omitted for clarity -->
</Invoice>

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