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BR-51 – In accordance with card payments security standards an invoice should never include a…

What the rule says

In accordance with card payments security standards an invoice should never include a full card primary account number (BT-87). At the moment PCI Security Standards Council has defined that the first 6 digits and last 4 digits are the maximum number of digits to be shown.

How to fix it

Fill in or correct the fields named in the rule (the BT/BG codes tell you which). The test below shows exactly what is checked in the XML. Quickest: validate the invoice to get the exact location and, for amounts, the correct value.

This is a warning, not an error: it does not normally cause a rejection, but it is worth cleaning up.

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Paste the XML and see every error with the exact fix and the correct amounts.

Where it is checked in the XML

Context: cac:PaymentMeans/cac:CardAccount/cbc:PrimaryAccountNumberID

Test (XPath):

string-length(normalize-space(.))<=10

Related rules

• BR-01 An Invoice shall have a Specification identifier (BT-24)
• BR-02 Invoice number missing
• BR-03 An Invoice shall have an Invoice issue date (BT-2)
• BR-04 An Invoice shall have an Invoice type code (BT-3)
• BR-05 Invoice currency missing
• BR-06 Seller name missing
• BR-07 Buyer name missing
• BR-08 Seller address missing
• BR-09 The Seller postal address (BG-5) shall contain a Seller country code (BT-40)
• BR-10 Buyer address missing
• BR-11 The Buyer postal address shall contain a Buyer country code (BT-55)
• BR-12 An Invoice shall have the Sum of Invoice line net amount (BT-106)