Basic principles to the PDF version of the Purchase Order

In order for the conversion of the Order into a human-readable equivalent and the sending via email to be successful the sender needs to follow a number of rules.

1. Email: the sender must provide the email address of the recipient in the element  <Order/SellerSupplierParty/Party/Contact/ElectronicMail>.                                                               i.      Example: <ElectronicMail languageID="NL">email </ElectronicMail>

2. Language: The sender  must pass a language code (only “FR” or “NL”) in attribute "Lang" of UBL data element <Order/SellerSupplierParty/Party/Contact/ElectronicMail> . The Language code is compulsory. There is no default/backup language. Example: <ElectronicMaillanguageID="NL"> email </ElectronicMail>

3. Own PDF: Mercurius foresees a mechanism to prioritize the customer's own PDF versus the Mercurius generated PDF. This offers a solution:

   1. for those who wish to use their own layout

   2. when a more extensive or complicated order is used

   3. if another language (then  NL or FR) is needed

   4. The sender must use  <additionalDocumentReference> with  "human-readable equivalent order" in  the DocumentType element.

4. Exception handling: If Mercurius detects an error in the transformation process into a PDF then an exception handling process will kick in. This means that the Mercurius servicedesk gets notified and will contact the sender to notify of the error.