CORRECTIVE_RECIPIENT_NOT

A corrective invoice goes to the recipient of the invoice it corrects. Send recipient only to correct that recipient's data: with rectification_type PARTIAL, rectification_code R4 and no lines.

Category: Invoices


HTTP status	`422` Unprocessable Content
Retry	After fixing the cause

When it happens

The request to create a corrective invoice carries a recipient (a customer_id or inline data) outside a recipient-data correction. A corrective goes to the recipient of the invoice it corrects, with that invoice's data; recipient is accepted only to correct that recipient's name, tax ID or address, with rectification_type PARTIAL, rectification_code R4 and no lines. Nothing is created.

How to fix it

Send the corrective without recipient. To correct the recipient's data on the invoice, send PARTIAL, R4, no lines and the corrected recipient.

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-017 A corrective keeps the recipient, except to correct the recipient's data

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_RECIPIENT_NOT_ACCEPTED",
  "title": "CORRECTIVE_RECIPIENT_NOT_ACCEPTED",
  "detail": "A corrective invoice goes to the recipient of the invoice it corrects. Send recipient only to correct that recipient's data: with rectification_type PARTIAL, rectification_code R4 and no lines.",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "CORRECTIVE_RECIPIENT_NOT_ACCEPTED",
    "message": "A corrective invoice goes to the recipient of the invoice it corrects. Send recipient only to correct that recipient's data: with rectification_type PARTIAL, rectification_code R4 and no lines.",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-05-21T10:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}

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

Message

A corrective invoice goes to the recipient of the invoice it corrects. Send recipient only to correct that recipient's data: with rectification_type PARTIAL, rectification_code R4 and no lines.

Una rectificativa va al destinatario de la factura que corrige. Solo se indica recipient para corregir sus datos: con rectification_type PARTIAL, rectification_code R4 y sin líneas.

Una rectificativa va al destinatari de la factura que corregeix. Només s’indica recipient per corregir-ne les dades: amb rectification_type PARTIAL, rectification_code R4 i sense línies.

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