BR-KSA-EN16931-01: Business process (ProfileID) is not reporting:1.0

Official text

Business process (BT-23) must be "reporting:1.0".

Error · Source: ZATCA E-Invoicing SDK 238-R3.3.8 · Electronic Invoice XML Implementation Standard v1.2, 19 May 2023, §13.3.4, p. 66 · Checked: 26 October 2026

What it means

ProfileID is exactly reporting:1.0 on every invoice, including tax invoices that go through clearance.

When it happens

• The developer wrote clearance:1.0 for tax invoices because they are cleared.
• The field is missing or contains a space.

How to fix it

1. Write reporting:1.0 for every invoice and note type.
2. Tell reporting and clearance apart by the invoice type (01 or 02) and the endpoint you send to, not by this field.

Example

<cbc:ProfileID>clearance:1.0</cbc:ProfileID>

<cbc:ProfileID>reporting:1.0</cbc:ProfileID>

We ran the wrong example through ZATCA's SDK 238-R3.3.8 on 26 October 2026 and it raised BR-KSA-EN16931-01. The example is an excerpt of ZATCA's sample Simplified/Invoice/Simplified_Invoice.xml with one change; the sample without it does not raise the code.

Related codes

• BR-KSA-06 Transaction code (KSA-2) is incomplete
• BR-KSA-EN16931-02 Tax currency is not SAR
• BR-KSA-EN16931-03 Allowance/Charge amount (BT-92, BT-99, BT-136, BT-141) must equal base amount (BT-93, BT-100, BT-137, BT-142) * percentage (BT-94, BT-101, BT-138, BT-143) / 100 if base amount and percentage exists.

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Last updated: 26 October 2026 · What we don't do · Methodology · Correct us · Changelog

First published 2026-10-26 · Archived copy