BR-08 Seller address missing

The seller's postal address is missing.

What the rule says

An Invoice shall contain the Seller postal address (BG-5).

The rule's official wording (CEN / KoSIT). The German XRechnung rules are published in German.

Why it happens

The invoice has no postal address for the seller (BG-5).

How to fix it

Add your street, postcode, city and country to your company settings.

Applies to

Every EN 16931 e-invoice: XRechnung, ZUGFeRD / Factur-X, Peppol and others.

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More about BR-08

The seller's full address is a legal requirement on invoices (§ 14 (4) No. 1 UStG) and tells the buyer which country's VAT rules the seller falls under. BR-08 fires when the address group is missing entirely; if the group is there but the country is missing, you get BR-09 instead.

In the European standard only the country is strictly required inside the address. XRechnung is stricter and also requires the city (BR-DE-3) and the post code (BR-DE-4), so add the whole address at once.

The fields involved

BG-5 Seller postal address: CII ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress; UBL cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress
BT-40 Seller country code: CII ram:SellerTradeParty/ram:PostalTradeAddress/ram:CountryID; UBL cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress/cac:Country/cbc:IdentificationCode

Typical situations

The address is only printed in the PDF letterhead or footer, not entered as data.
The company settings have the address in a single free-text field the exporter can't split.
Hand-built XML left out the PostalTradeAddress block.

Example

A complete seller address in CII:

<ram:PostalTradeAddress>
  <ram:PostcodeCode>10115</ram:PostcodeCode>
  <ram:LineOne>Musterstraße 1</ram:LineOne>
  <ram:CityName>Berlin</ram:CityName>
  <ram:CountryID>DE</ram:CountryID>
</ram:PostalTradeAddress>