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REPRESENTATION_NOT_ACTIVE

There is no active representation document. Generate and sign one before continuing.


Category: VeriFactu

HTTP status400 Bad Request
RetryNo

When it happens

The company has no active representation document (generated and signed), so there is nothing to cancel.

How to fix it

Check the representation's status. Nothing needs cancelling if none is active.

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.

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_NOT_ACTIVE",
  "title": "REPRESENTATION_NOT_ACTIVE",
  "detail": "There is no active representation document. Generate and sign one before continuing.",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "REPRESENTATION_NOT_ACTIVE",
    "message": "There is no active representation document. Generate and sign one before continuing.",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-05-21T10:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}

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

Message

There is no active representation document. Generate and sign one before continuing.
No hay un documento de representación activo. Genera y firma uno antes de continuar.
No hi ha cap document de representació actiu. Genera’n i signa’n un abans de continuar.

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

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