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Japan: Invoice Document Reference

For Japanese correction invoices, you must specify the preceding invoice number and issue date.

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Elements

Use the following subelements of the BillingReference element to specify this information:

Name (Path)CardinalityDescription
Billing Reference (Invoice/BillingReference/InvoiceDocumentReference)0..1A group for references to a preceding Document.
Preceding Invoice Reference (Invoice/BillingReference/InvoiceDocumentReference/ID)1..1Specify the number of the referenced document.
Preceding Invoice Date (Invoice/BillingReference/InvoiceDocumentReference/IssueDate)1..1The date the reference Document was issued.

Restrictions

  • For Japanese correction invoices, you must specify the preceding invoice number in the ID element and the preceding invoice's issue date in the IssueDate element.

Example

<ubl:Invoice>
    <!-- Code omitted for clarity -->
	<cac:BillingReference> 
		<!-- Information about the preceeding invoice to correct -->
		<cac:InvoiceDocumentReference>
			<cbc:ID>123</cbc:ID> 
			<cbc:IssueDate>2023-10-20</cbc:IssueDate> 
		</cac:InvoiceDocumentReference>
	</cac:BillingReference>	
    <!-- Code omitted for clarity -->
</ubl:Invoice>

Updated 6 days ago