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PEPPOL-PROCESS-001 · Peppol BIS Billing 3 · UBL

Peppol: invalid document type or process identifier

The document cannot be associated with the expected Peppol profile or process.

Peppol BIS Billing 3 (November 2025 Release)Last professional review: 2026-07-05

Meaning

The document cannot be associated with the expected Peppol profile or process.

Typical cause

CustomizationID/ProfileID belongs to another profile or was edited manually.

Affected fields / XML paths

/ubl:Invoice/cbc:CustomizationID/ubl:Invoice/cbc:ProfileID

Invalid example

<cbc:CustomizationID>custom</cbc:CustomizationID><cbc:ProfileID>billing</cbc:ProfileID>

Corrected example

<cbc:CustomizationID>urn:cen.eu:en16931:2017#compliant#…</cbc:CustomizationID><cbc:ProfileID>urn:fdc:peppol.eu:2017:poacc:billing:01:1.0</cbc:ProfileID>

Remediation steps

  1. Determine the recipient and network profile.
  2. Generate identifiers from versioned configuration.
  3. Do not override them with free text.