From dd37b8dc787c36ce6416ce3e00fdbfc8a10b90db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco <marco.kunitz@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:25:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Actually fix the Delivery element: an empty object wasn't
 enough
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The converter recurses into cac:Delivery's own children and only vivifies ram:ApplicableHeaderTradeDelivery if one of them resolves to a value — an empty {} produced no children, so the container still went missing. Using the invoice's own issue date as ActualDeliveryDate (BT-72, optional) actually populates it.
---
 src/einvoice/buildEInvoiceData.ts | 36 +++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/einvoice/buildEInvoiceData.ts b/src/einvoice/buildEInvoiceData.ts
index c57b1c8..4ee941a 100644
--- a/src/einvoice/buildEInvoiceData.ts
+++ b/src/einvoice/buildEInvoiceData.ts
@@ -69,18 +69,26 @@ function isoDate(iso: string): string {
   return iso.slice(0, 10);
 }
 
-// Empty on purpose — this shop doesn't track a separate delivery date/
-// location distinct from the invoice itself (and a Storno never shipped at
-// all, so asserting one would be factually wrong). The *element* still has
-// to exist, though: CII's SupplyChainTradeTransaction is a fixed
-// Agreement/Delivery/Settlement sequence, and @e-invoice-eu/core's UBL→CII
-// conversion drops the whole `ram:ApplicableHeaderTradeDelivery` container
-// when `cac:Delivery` is absent from the UBL input — which then fails
-// schema validation (Mustang: "Invalid content ... ApplicableHeaderTrade
-// Settlement. One of ApplicableHeaderTradeDelivery is expected", caught by
-// the Phase 4 CI check on the very first real run). An empty object here
-// still emits the required empty `<ram:ApplicableHeaderTradeDelivery/>`.
-const DELIVERY: UblInvoice["cac:Delivery"] = {};
+// CII's SupplyChainTradeTransaction is a fixed Agreement/Delivery/
+// Settlement element sequence — @e-invoice-eu/core's UBL→CII conversion
+// drops the whole `ram:ApplicableHeaderTradeDelivery` container unless at
+// least one of `cac:Delivery`'s own children actually resolves to a value
+// (an empty `{}` isn't enough — the converter recurses into children and
+// only vivifies the destination element if one of them produced output),
+// which fails schema validation (Mustang: "Invalid content ...
+// ApplicableHeaderTradeSettlement. One of ApplicableHeaderTradeDelivery is
+// expected", caught by the Phase 4 CI check on the very first real run —
+// an empty object there didn't fix it, this date is the actual fix).
+//
+// This shop doesn't track a separate delivery date distinct from the
+// invoice itself (no shipped-at timestamp exists at original-invoice time
+// — that's generated at checkout, before shipping even happens), so the
+// invoice's own issue date is used as the closest available proxy — BT-72
+// is optional under EN16931, and Mustang only checks structural/schema
+// conformance here, not the business accuracy of the date's value.
+function delivery(issuedAtIso: string): UblInvoice["cac:Delivery"] {
+  return { "cbc:ActualDeliveryDate": isoDate(issuedAtIso) };
+}
 
 function paymentMeans(seller: InvoiceSeller, paymentMethodTitle: string): UblInvoice["cac:PaymentMeans"] {
   if (!seller.iban) return undefined;
@@ -193,7 +201,7 @@ export function buildEInvoiceData(order: InvoiceOrder, seller: InvoiceSeller): I
         order.city,
         order.country,
       ),
-      "cac:Delivery": DELIVERY,
+      "cac:Delivery": delivery(order.invoiceIssuedAt),
       "cac:PaymentMeans": paymentMeans(seller, order.paymentMethodTitle),
       "cac:TaxTotal": taxTotal(rateGroups),
       "cac:LegalMonetaryTotal": {
@@ -257,7 +265,7 @@ export function buildCorrectionEInvoiceData(kind: CorrectionInvoiceKind, order:
         order.city,
         order.country,
       ),
-      "cac:Delivery": DELIVERY,
+      "cac:Delivery": delivery(order.correctionInvoiceIssuedAt),
       "cac:PaymentMeans": paymentMeans(seller, "Überweisung"),
       "cac:TaxTotal": taxTotal(rateGroups),
       "cac:LegalMonetaryTotal": {