ORIGINAL_REFERENCE_ONLY_ON

Only a corrective invoice can reference an original invoice.

Category: Invoices


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

When it happens

An invoice that is not a corrective references an original invoice. Only a corrective points at the invoice it corrects.

How to fix it

Remove the reference, or create a corrective from the original invoice instead.

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.

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/ORIGINAL_REFERENCE_ONLY_ON_CORRECTIVE",
  "title": "ORIGINAL_REFERENCE_ONLY_ON_CORRECTIVE",
  "detail": "Only a corrective invoice can reference an original invoice.",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "ORIGINAL_REFERENCE_ONLY_ON_CORRECTIVE",
    "message": "Only a corrective invoice can reference an original invoice.",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-05-21T10:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}