# RECURRING_MAX_INVOICES_BELOW_GENERATED

The cap cannot fall below the ‹generated› invoices already generated: issued invoices are fiscal facts and are not undone by lowering the cap. To stop it now, end the recurrence by setting its status to COMPLETED.

<Callout type="info">
**Category:** [Invoices](/errors/category/invoicing)
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| | |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | `422` Unprocessable Content |
| Retry | After fixing the cause |

## When it happens

The new `max_invoices` is lower than the number of invoices the recurrence has already generated. Issued invoices are not undone by lowering the cap.

## How to fix it

Send a `max_invoices` equal to or higher than the invoices already generated. To stop the recurrence now, set its status to `COMPLETED`.

## 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.

- [`PATCH /v1/companies/{company_id}/recurring-invoices/{recurring_invoice_id}`](/recurring-invoices/patchCompanyRecurringInvoice)

## 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/RECURRING_MAX_INVOICES_BELOW_GENERATED",
  "title": "RECURRING_MAX_INVOICES_BELOW_GENERATED",
  "detail": "The cap cannot fall below the ‹generated› invoices already generated: issued invoices are fiscal facts and are not undone by lowering the cap. To stop it now, end the recurrence by setting its status to COMPLETED.",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "RECURRING_MAX_INVOICES_BELOW_GENERATED",
    "message": "The cap cannot fall below the ‹generated› invoices already generated: issued invoices are fiscal facts and are not undone by lowering the cap. To stop it now, end the recurrence by setting its status to COMPLETED.",
    "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 cap cannot fall below the ‹generated› invoices already generated: issued invoices are fiscal facts and are not undone by lowering the cap. To stop it now, end the recurrence by setting its status to COMPLETED."}</Tab>
  <Tab value="Spanish">{"El cupo no puede quedar por debajo de las ‹generated› facturas ya generadas: las facturas emitidas son hechos fiscales y no se descuentan bajando el cupo. Si quieres pararla ya, termina la recurrencia poniendo su estado en COMPLETED."}</Tab>
  <Tab value="Catalan">{"El límit no pot quedar per sota de les ‹generated› factures ja generades: les factures emeses són fets fiscals i no es descompten abaixant el límit. Si vols aturar-la ja, finalitza la recurrència posant el seu estat a COMPLETED."}</Tab>
</Tabs>

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

Placeholders are filled in at runtime:

- `‹generated›` — how many invoices the recurrence has already generated.

## 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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