REPRESENTATION_ALREADY

There is already an active representation document. Cancel it before generating another one.

Category: VeriFactu


HTTP status	`400` Bad Request
Retry	No

When it happens

The company already has an active representation document, so a new one is not generated.

How to fix it

Use the active one. To replace it, cancel it first and then generate a new one.

Retry

Do not retry. The outcome is final: sending the same request again gets the same answer.

Returned by

The operations where this code is most likely. The list is not exhaustive.

POST /v1/companies/{company_id}/representation

Example response

When this error occurs, the API answers 400 Bad Request with a JSON body of this shape:

{
  "type": "https://docs.beel.es/errors/REPRESENTATION_ALREADY_ACTIVE",
  "title": "REPRESENTATION_ALREADY_ACTIVE",
  "detail": "There is already an active representation document. Cancel it before generating another one.",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "REPRESENTATION_ALREADY_ACTIVE",
    "message": "There is already an active representation document. Cancel it before generating another one.",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-05-21T10:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}