A group of business terms providing information on the invoice period. For yellowbill CH invoices, this is the billing or delivery period. At least one Billing Period segment must be present, either on the document or the line item. Do not use the Invoice Period Description cbc:DescriptionCode if you provide the billing or delivery period.

Elements

The invoice period group can be used additionally to provide different dates that are not natively supported by UBL. Use the Invoice Period Description Code to provide the allowed UNCL2005 codes to specify which date should be represented. To specify the Invoice Period, do not provide the Invoice Period Description Code.

Example

<ubl:Invoice>
  <!-- ... omitted for readability -->
  <cac:InvoicePeriod>
    <cbc:StartDate>2026-06-01</cbc:StartDate>
    <cbc:EndDate>2026-06-01</cbc:EndDate>
    <cbc:DescriptionCode>50</cbc:DescriptionCode>
  </cac:InvoicePeriod>
  <!-- ... omitted for readability -->
</ubl:Invoice>