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Peppol invoice validator

Check a UBL invoice or credit note against the EN 16931 and Peppol BIS Billing 3 rules, and see every finding by layer.

  • Your XML is sent only when you choose Validate or Try the sample invoice.
  • Anonymous XML and its result are processed transiently and are not stored.
  • Content-free request and security metadata, including IP address, may be retained for up to 90 days.
  • Anonymous rate limits apply. Maximum input is 5 MiB.
  • Archives and compressed uploads are refused. A DOCTYPE, entities beyond the five predefined ones, or XInclude are refused before validation or reported invalid at the XML layer, never validated.
  • Privacy policy

Drop a UBL .xml file here, or click to browse

One XML document, up to 5 MiB. UTF-8, or UTF-16 with a byte-order mark.

Advanced options

These options do not pin a release. They declare the profile and document type for which the API resolves the current sendable release, instead of detecting them from the document; the result names the release used. A declared document type that contradicts the detected root element is refused before validation. A document whose root cannot be read needs both declared, and is then reported as invalid at the XML or schema layer.

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What this checks

Your document is validated against the current sendable ruleset, an exact and immutable release: the UBL 2.1 schema, the EN 16931 business rules and the Peppol BIS Billing 3 rules, in that order. Each finding carries a stable identifier, the official one where the standard supplies it and an Ironfang FW- identifier for the input and XML boundary checks. The result tells you whether the document is valid against that ruleset. It does not certify the document, does not guarantee a recipient will accept it, and does not send anything over the Peppol network.

What is kept

An anonymous document and its result are processed transiently and are not stored. Content-free request and security metadata, including the IP address, may be kept for up to 90 days. See the privacy policy.

Limits

One XML document of at most 5 MiB per request, and anonymous rate limits. Archives and compressed uploads are refused before validation. With both options on Detect, a document whose profile cannot be detected, including one with a DOCTYPE before its root element, is refused before validation as profile undetected. Once a ruleset can be selected, detected or declared, a DOCTYPE, entity declarations or references beyond XML's five predefined entities, or XInclude are reported as invalid at the XML layer; the rules are not reached.

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