Invoices containing a tax ID from outside the country and international addresses are not accepted for upload to SPV.
The "Buyer has no address set" error
This error appears because the client's address is incomplete. Note the distinction:
Client in Romania: fill in the full address — street, city, county, country. Check all four from the start, not just the field named in the message: validation stops at the first field that is wrong or empty, so if you fix only that one, you will get the next error on another field when you re-upload. For Bucharest, the city must be the sector (SECTOR1 … SECTOR6); if you write "București", Ebriza converts it on its own, but the English form "Bucharest" is not converted and is rejected by ANAF. Fix the address on the order, in the "Address details" block, not just in the Clients menu — the invoice is built from the client's data as of the order date. For company clients, make sure both the billing and the delivery address are set (if you add a single address, it automatically serves as both). After the correction, re-upload the invoice to SPV. The full explanation, field by field, is in the article "Invoices not validated by ANAF".
Client outside Romania:
Client outside Romania: the invoice is not uploaded to SPV and is declared only in the VAT return, but only if Ebriza recognizes the client as foreign. Ebriza recognizes the client as foreign from the client details on the order: the client is a legal entity and has the VAT code with the country prefix in the CUI field (for example BE..., DE..., HU...), or the country of the billing address on the order is not Romania. In this case, the invoice appears in the S.P.V. column as not eligible for upload to SPV. This is normal and final: the invoice remains issued and valid, and the County field can stay empty.
If you get the error "Buyer has no address set" on a foreign client's invoice, Ebriza did not recognize the client as foreign. Most often, the foreign company was saved as a private individual, with the VAT code entered in the CNP field, or without a country on the address. In this case, neither filling in the county nor leaving it empty helps. Correct the client on the order:
Step 1: Open the order from Sales and click Edit next to Client.
Step 2: Choose the legal entity (company) type and enter the VAT code, with the country prefix, in the CUI field, not in the CNP field.
Step 3: In the "Address details" block, click Edit and choose the client's real country under Country (for example Belgium). The county can stay empty.
Step 4: Confirm the update message with Yes and save.
Step 5: Re-upload the invoice from the S.P.V. column (the upload arrow). The invoice will be marked as not eligible for SPV, meaning it is no longer sent, as is normal for a client from abroad.
Also correct the client in the Clients menu, so the next orders are issued correctly from the start.
The same applies in reverse: invoices received from suppliers outside Romania
The rule works both ways. S.P.V. only receives invoices issued by companies that are fiscally registered in Romania, so invoices you receive from a supplier in another country will not appear in S.P.V. and cannot be downloaded from there, including by using the “Download invoices from S.P.V.” button in the Costs menu.
An invoice from a foreign supplier must be entered manually from the Costs menu, using the “+” button, with the amounts converted into RON using the exchange rate applicable on the invoice issue date. The complete steps are described in the “Adding invoices in Costs” article, in the “Invoices from foreign suppliers and invoices in foreign currency (EUR)” section.
Voiding and reissuing these invoices
Because the invoice is not uploaded to the S.P.V., it does not wait for any response from the Tax Authority. You can normally use the “Void invoice” button and the “Issue invoice” / “Issue a new invoice” buttons for the respective order. The message “The Last Invoice must be successfully uploaded to the Tax Authority before creating a new Invoice.” no longer applies to these invoices.
If you click “Issue a new invoice” immediately after voiding and still see the message, it only means that the void invoice has just been created and does not yet have its own status in the S.P.V. column. This is resolved during the next automatic upload or immediately if you click the upload arrow on the void invoice row in the S.P.V. column and confirm.
[tags: client outside Romania, adress error, invoice]