Re: [ubl-lcsc] [Fwd: Italian implementation of UBL_Invoice]

[Monica Martin <monica.martin@sun.com>]

Chiusano Joseph wrote:

>Ciao Sonia,
>
>I'll write to you in English because your English is excellent. I
>personally am not in a position to answer these questions for you, but
>I've forwarded your e-mail to the LCSC listserv.
>
>Molto piacere conoscerti,
>Joe Chiusano
>
mm1: This appears to be a use case for the context methodology subgroup 
to consider.
Thanks.

>
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>
> Subject:
> Italian implementation of UBL_Invoice
> From:
> "Sonia Guerci" <sonia.guerci@isolutions.it>
> Date:
> Mon, 6 Oct 2003 18:57:28 +0200
> To:
> <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
>
>
> From: Sonia Guerci
>
> iSolutions s.n.c.
>
> Noceto, PARMA (ITALY)
>
> Dear Mr. Chiusano,
>
> monitoring the UBL LCSC mail archive I’ve found that you speak 
> Italian, so I’m taking the liberty to pose a few questions.
>
> We are trying to develop a UBL compliant Web Service for electronic 
> invoicing.
>
> Basically we want to export and import invoice data in XML format 
> validating the files with the UBL_Invoice.xsd schema
>
> We’re experiencing problems fitting the fields of the typical Italian 
> invoice in the XML elements.
>
> Mainly we don’t know exactly where to place Payment Due dates.
>
> If I got it right the Invoice should contain the Seller’s instructions 
> that the buyer needs in order to trigger payment.
>
> The problem with the actual schema is that in the Italian invoice we 
> usually have more than one “payment due date”. Buyers have the chance 
> to pay a determined percentage of the ToBePaidTotalAmount by each due 
> date.
>
> We are now coping with this matter putting the entire description in 
> the element PaymentTerms/Note
>
> A typical PaymentTerms/Note that we use is “RI.BA. 30/60gg” which 
> translates to “Bank Receipt 30/60days”.
>
> If the Invoice/IssueDate was 2003/01/15 the buyer could pay, say, 50% 
> of the ToBePaidTotalAmount by the end of February 2003 and the 
> remaining percentage by the end of March 2003.
>
> Or the buyer could pay 100% of the taxable amount by one date and 100% 
> of the tax amount by the other.
>
> To effectively use the Schema we would need, for example, a 
> cardinality 0..n of SettlementPeriod and additional elements to 
> contain the percentages of ToBePaidTotalAmount and TotalTaxAmount 
> (ToBePaidTotalAmount - LineExtensionTotalAmount) due (or directly the 
> Amounts due).
>
> Something like this:
>
> <cat:PaymentTerms>
>
> <cat:ID />
>
> <cat:Note>*RI.BA. 30/60gg FINE MESE*</cat:Note>
>
> <cat:FromEventCode>*InvoiceIssueDate*</FromEventCode >
>
> <cat:SettlementPeriod>**
>
> <cat:DurationMeasure unitCode="*DAYS*">*30*</cat:DurationMeasure>
>
> <cat:TaxTotalAmountPercentRateNumeric>*50*</cat:TaxTotalAmountPercentRateNumeric 
> >
>
> <cat:LineExtensionTotalAmountPercentRateNumeric>*50*</cat:LineExtensionTotalAmountPercentRateNumeric>**
>
> </cat:SettlementPeriod >
>
> <cat:SettlementPeriod>**
>
> <cat:DurationMeasure unitCode="* DAYS* ">*60*</cat:DurationMeasure>
>
> <cat:TaxTotalAmountPercentRateNumeric 
> >*50*</cat:TaxTotalAmountPercentRateNumeric >
>
> <cat:LineExtensionTotalAmountPercentRateNumeric 
> >*50*</cat:LineExtensionTotalAmountPercentRateNumeric >**
>
> </cat:SettlementPeriod >
>
> </cat:PaymentTerms>
>
> This would be great but increasing the cardinality of SettlementPeriod 
> should suffice.
>
> My question is:
>
> Is there a chance that the schema in the final release will allow more 
> that one payment due date? If not, do you see an alternative to the 
> use of the unstructured Note element?
>
> We would really appreciate any help you could give us.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sonia Guerci
>
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