# OPERATION_DATE_AFTER_ISSUE_DATE

Operation date cannot be after the issue date

<Callout type="info">
**Category:** [Invoices](/errors/category/invoicing)
</Callout>

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

## When it happens

`operation_date` is later than the invoice's issue date. The operation date is when the goods were delivered or the service was provided, and it cannot be in the future of the invoice that documents it.

## How to fix it

Send an `operation_date` on or before the issue date, or omit it when it is the same day.

## 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`](/invoices/createCompanyInvoice)
- [`PATCH /v1/companies/{company_id}/invoices/{invoice_id}`](/invoices/patchCompanyInvoice)

## Rules that cite this code

- [DAT-003 · The operation date is never after the issue date nor over twenty years old](/rules/dates#dat-003)

## 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/OPERATION_DATE_AFTER_ISSUE_DATE",
  "title": "OPERATION_DATE_AFTER_ISSUE_DATE",
  "detail": "Operation date cannot be after the issue date",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "OPERATION_DATE_AFTER_ISSUE_DATE",
    "message": "Operation date cannot be after the issue date",
    "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">{"Operation date cannot be after the issue date"}</Tab>
  <Tab value="Spanish">{"La fecha de operación no puede ser posterior a la fecha de emisión"}</Tab>
  <Tab value="Catalan">{"La data d'operació no pot ser posterior a la data d'emissió"}</Tab>
</Tabs>

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

## Other errors in this category

<div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-3 not-prose">
  <Card title="ATTACH_SOURCE_INVOICE_UNAVAILABLE" description="A source invoice is not available (it does not exist or you no longer have access); uncheck the source invoices attachment to send without the folder" href="/errors/ATTACH_SOURCE_INVOICE_UNAVAILABLE" />
  <Card title="ATTACH_SOURCE_INVOICES_NO_SOURCES" description="The invoice has no consolidation disbursements: there are no source invoices to attach" href="/errors/ATTACH_SOURCE_INVOICES_NO_SOURCES" />
  <Card title="ATTACH_SOURCE_INVOICES_REQUIRES_PDF" description="Attaching the source invoices also requires attaching the invoice PDF" href="/errors/ATTACH_SOURCE_INVOICES_REQUIRES_PDF" />
  <Card title="ATTACH_SOURCE_PDF_MISSING" description="These source invoices have no generated PDF: ‹value›" href="/errors/ATTACH_SOURCE_PDF_MISSING" />
  <Card title="ATTACH_SOURCE_ZIP_TOO_LARGE" description="The source invoices ZIP (‹value› MB) exceeds the maximum sendable size (‹value› MB)" href="/errors/ATTACH_SOURCE_ZIP_TOO_LARGE" />
</div>

## Keep exploring

<div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-3 not-prose">
  <Card title="All Invoices errors" description="Every code in this category in one table." href="/errors/category/invoicing" />
  <Card title="Error reference home" description="Browse every category or jump to the handling guide." href="/errors" />
</div>

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Full OpenAPI spec: https://docs.beel.es/api/openapi