CORRECTIVE_NOT_RECTIFIABLE

When it happens

The invoice you tried to correct is itself a corrective invoice. Corrective invoices are not chained.

How to fix it

Issue a new corrective invoice against the original invoice, the one the erroneous corrective pointed at.

Retry

Not as is: the same request fails the same way. Fix the cause described above, then send the request again, under a new Idempotency-Key if the body changed.

Returned by

The operations where this code is most likely. The list is not exhaustive.

• POST /v1/companies/{company_id}/invoices/{invoice_id}/corrective

Rules that cite this code

• COR-007 A wrong corrective is fixed against the original, not corrected itself

Example response

When this error occurs, the API answers 422 Unprocessable Content with a JSON body of this shape:

{
  "type": "https://docs.beel.es/errors/CORRECTIVE_NOT_RECTIFIABLE",
  "title": "CORRECTIVE_NOT_RECTIFIABLE",
  "detail": "A corrective invoice cannot be rectified. To fix an erroneous corrective, issue another corrective against the original invoice.",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "CORRECTIVE_NOT_RECTIFIABLE",
    "message": "A corrective invoice cannot be rectified. To fix an erroneous corrective, issue another corrective against the original invoice.",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-05-21T10:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}

The type URI is stable and always resolves to this page.

Message

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