BG-3

Preceding invoice reference

Raw

Points to an earlier invoice the current document relates to — typical for credit notes and corrective invoices. Only needed when such a relation exists.

Where does it live in the XML?

UBL (XRechnung)
cac:BillingReference/cac:InvoiceDocumentReference
CII (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD, Factur-X)
ram:InvoiceReferencedDocument

Contained fields

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Semantics: EN 16931-1. Simplified explanation in our own words — the norm is authoritative.