# ENTITY_TYPE_INCONSISTENT_WITH_NIF

The entity type ‹value› does not match the NIF ‹value›: an individual is identified by a DNI or NIE, and a company or entity by a NIF that starts with a legal-form letter

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**Category:** [Account settings](/errors/category/configuracion)
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| | |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | `422` Unprocessable Content |
| Retry | After fixing the cause |

## When it happens

The company's `entity_type` does not match its NIF: an individual is identified with a DNI or NIE, and a company or entity with a NIF that starts with the letter of its legal form.

## How to fix it

Send the `entity_type` that matches the NIF.

## 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/accounts/{account_id}/companies`](/companies/createCompany)
- [`PATCH /v1/companies/{company_id}`](/companies/patchCompanyById)

## Example response

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

```json
{
  "type": "https://docs.beel.es/errors/ENTITY_TYPE_INCONSISTENT_WITH_NIF",
  "title": "ENTITY_TYPE_INCONSISTENT_WITH_NIF",
  "detail": "The entity type ‹value› does not match the NIF ‹value›: an individual is identified by a DNI or NIE, and a company or entity by a NIF that starts with a legal-form letter",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "ENTITY_TYPE_INCONSISTENT_WITH_NIF",
    "message": "The entity type ‹value› does not match the NIF ‹value›: an individual is identified by a DNI or NIE, and a company or entity by a NIF that starts with a legal-form letter",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-05-21T10:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

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

## Message

<Tabs items={["English", "Spanish", "Catalan"]}>
  <Tab value="English">{"The entity type ‹value› does not match the NIF ‹value›: an individual is identified by a DNI or NIE, and a company or entity by a NIF that starts with a legal-form letter"}</Tab>
  <Tab value="Spanish">{"El tipo de entidad ‹value› no casa con el NIF ‹value›: una persona física se identifica con DNI o NIE, y una sociedad o entidad con un NIF que empieza por letra de forma jurídica"}</Tab>
  <Tab value="Catalan">{"El tipus d'entitat ‹value› no casa amb el NIF ‹value›: una persona física s'identifica amb DNI o NIE, i una societat o entitat amb un NIF que comença per lletra de forma jurídica"}</Tab>
</Tabs>

Send the request with `Accept-Language: <es|en|ca>` to receive the message in your preferred language.

> Placeholders like `‹value›` are filled in at runtime with the actual values of your request.

## Other errors in this category

<div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-3 not-prose">
  <Card title="ACTIVE_CANNOT_DELETE" description="Cannot delete an active series. Deactivate it first" href="/errors/ACTIVE_CANNOT_DELETE" />
  <Card title="DEFAULT_CANNOT_BE_UNMARKED" description="Cannot unmark the default series. Set another series as default first" href="/errors/DEFAULT_CANNOT_BE_UNMARKED" />
  <Card title="DEFAULT_CANNOT_DEACTIVATE" description="Cannot deactivate the default series. Set another series as default first" href="/errors/DEFAULT_CANNOT_DEACTIVATE" />
  <Card title="DEFAULT_CANNOT_DELETE" description="Cannot delete the default series. Set another series as default first" href="/errors/DEFAULT_CANNOT_DELETE" />
  <Card title="FISCAL_IDENTITY_LIVE_ONLY" description="This company is live. In Test mode you can only change how the invoice looks (logo, colour, template, languages and additional information). Fiscal details are edited in Live mode" href="/errors/FISCAL_IDENTITY_LIVE_ONLY" />
</div>

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