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Credit Note — Note de Crédit (BE)

  • Render-verified
  • Commercial
  • Version 1.0.0

Belgian credit note per Code TVA Art. 79 and AR n°1 du 29.12.1992 Art. 13. Must contain all invoice mandatory mentions plus original invoice reference.

JSON Schema

Fields in this template

Data sent to the API is validated against the template’s JSON Schema before anything is rendered. This template defines 41 fields:

Field Required Type Description
letter Required object Document metadata.
letter.place Required string
letter.date Required date
letter.language Required enum
letter.document_reference Optional string
entity Required object Credit note issuer identification (Art. 5 §1 3° AR n°1).
entity.name Required string
entity.legal_form Optional string
entity.bce_number Required string
entity.vat_number Required string
entity.address Required string
entity.postal_code Required string
entity.commune Required string
entity.phone Optional string
entity.email Optional string
entity.iban Optional string IBAN for refund if applicable.
entity.bic Optional string
client Required object Recipient of the credit note (Art. 5 §1 4° AR n°1).
client.name Required string
client.vat_number Optional string Client VAT number if B2B.
client.bce_number Optional string
client.address Optional string
client.postal_code Optional string
client.commune Optional string
client.contact_person Optional string
credit_note Required object Credit note body.
credit_note.number Required string Sequential credit note number (series CN-YYYY-NNN).
credit_note.date Required date
credit_note.original_invoice_number Required string Number of the invoice being corrected (Art. 13 AR n°1).
credit_note.original_invoice_date Required date Date of the original invoice.

+11 more fields — the full JSON Schema is available in the dashboard and via the API.

POST /render

Generate it

One POST /render call: send your JSON, get the finished PDF back. Or skip the JSON entirely and describe the document in plain language on chut.app.

curl 
curl -X POST https://api.papii.eu/render \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "template": "be.accounting.credit_note",
    "data": { ... },
    "options": {"language": "en"}
  }' -o credit-note.pdf
Generate with AI on chut.app Try in the dashboard

Frequently asked questions

What is “Credit Note — Note de Crédit (BE)”?

Belgian credit note per Code TVA Art. 79 and AR n°1 du 29.12.1992 Art. 13. Must contain all invoice mandatory mentions plus original invoice reference. On papii this document is available as template be.accounting.credit_note: a JSON Schema plus a deterministic PDF renderer, so the same data always produces the same document.

Can I generate a Credit Note — Note de Crédit (BE) with AI?

Yes. chut.app — the AI back office papii powers — fills this template from a plain-language description: you describe the document in one sentence, the AI structures the data, papii validates it against the schema and renders the PDF. Developers can also call the papii API directly with structured JSON.

Is the Credit Note — Note de Crédit (BE) template legally compliant?

This template is render-verified: its schema, sample data and PDF output are automatically tested on every release. It is published with status “ready”, meaning it has not yet been through papii’s final legal review. Where it references specific legislation, that is stated in the template description — always have a professional check documents with legal effect before relying on them.