BT-87

Payment card primary account number

Raw

Number of the card used for payment. For PCI DSS reasons transmit it masked only — typically the last 4 to 6 digits.

Practical note

Never put the full PAN into an invoice — EN 16931 explicitly expects a truncated number.

Where does it live in the XML?

UBL (XRechnung)
cac:PaymentMeans/cac:CardAccount/cbc:PrimaryAccountNumberID
CII (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD, Factur-X)
rsm:SupplyChainTradeTransaction/ram:ApplicableHeaderTradeSettlement/ram:SpecifiedTradeSettlementPaymentMeans/ram:ApplicableTradeSettlementFinancialCard/ram:ID

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