The Leitweg-ID is a German specific field that is need on invoices to public contract authorities. On the XML-data it’s buyer reference. To add a Leitweg-ID to your e-invoice/XML-invoice follow the steps below.
- Create a client custom field on settings/preferences with the name #Leitweg-ID. Make sure to name the field exactly as described and field type is “Text”. The field name is used for the mapping.
- The field is now available on client settings and you can insert the Leitweg-ID into it.
- The Leitweg-ID will be automatically added to XML-data of the invoice created for that client. If you don’t insert data that custom field or if you not using it, 999 is inserted as default value to the XML-data.
Restrictions:
The Leitweg-ID will be only used if the field is named exactly #Leitweg-ID
The Leitweg-ID will be only used if the field type of the client custom field is text.
If the field is not available or no data is inserted, it adds 999 to the XML-data of the invoice.
