BT-13

Purchase order reference

Raw

The buyer's purchase order number. Many buyers auto-match incoming invoices against their orders — without this reference the matching fails.

Where does it live in the XML?

UBL (XRechnung)
cac:OrderReference/cbc:ID
CII (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD, Factur-X)
rsm:SupplyChainTradeTransaction/ram:ApplicableHeaderTradeAgreement/ram:BuyerOrderReferencedDocument/ram:IssuerAssignedID
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Semantics: EN 16931-1. Simplified explanation in our own words — the norm is authoritative.