Peppol BIS 3.0 · type code 381
Reverse an invoice on the network, not on paper.
A credit note in Peppol UBL, carrying the number of the invoice it cancels.
Runs in your browser
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What this produces
A UBL 2.1 CreditNote document in the Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 profile, with type code 381 and positive amounts: the direction is carried by the document type, not by a minus sign, which is the part hand-built files usually get wrong. Where an invoice would carry a due date, this carries the number of the invoice being credited instead.
Name the invoice you are crediting
A credit note that does not say what it credits is a document nobody can reconcile: your customer’s ledger has an amount arriving with nothing to match it against. The reference goes in a billing reference block, the check on the right insists on it, and it is the single most common omission on credit notes generated by hand.
Credit at the rate you charged
Not the rate in force today. If the original invoice was reverse-charged, exempt or zero-rated, the credit note has to say the same thing, otherwise the pair does not net to nothing and one of the two is wrong. Pick the same VAT treatment here as the invoice used and the legal note comes across with it.
What this does not do
It does not know your invoices, so it cannot check that the reference exists or that you are not crediting more than you charged. And it cannot send: Peppol delivery needs a registered Access Point. In weBiller a credit note is raised from the invoice itself, which is why the amounts and the reference cannot disagree.
Questions, answered
Is it really free?
Yes. No account, no limit, no watermark.
Where does the data go?
Nowhere. The XML is built in your browser and closing the tab deletes it.
Can I credit part of an invoice?
Yes. Put only the lines you are crediting on it, at the amounts you are crediting, and reference the original invoice number. A partial credit note is an ordinary credit note.
Should credit notes have their own numbering?
Most accountants want them distinguishable from invoices at a glance, and a CN- prefix is the usual way. The sequence still has to be unbroken.
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