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Invalid file format

When exporting via Rechnungsdatenservice 1.0 the error 'Invalid file format' occurs

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Written by Lars Böhnke
Updated over 2 years ago

Situation

You have started an export with Rechnungsdatenservice 1.0. The export of one or more documents fails with the error 'Invalid file format'.

Cause

One or more documents were uploaded in a file format that is not supported by DATEV.

  • Allowed file formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIF, TIFF.

  • Other files: CSV, DOC, DOCX, DTA, MSG, ODS, ODT, PDF, PK7, PKCS7, RTF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, XML

Which is odd, since we actually only allow PDF files in Candis. So how could you upload something that is not a PDF? 🤔 We'll take a look at that.

Resolution

  1. Download the affected document once and save it as a PDF.

  2. You can delete the faulty document now.

  3. Then upload the PDF document and send it again for approval.

Click here for the official DATEV documentation for error #DCO01015 (in German).

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