external_id_exists

A document with this external_id already exists for the empresa.

What to do

error.existing_id names it. This is the duplicate-invoice guard working.

The envelope

{
  "error": {
    "type": "conflict_error",
    "code": "external_id_exists",
    "message": "…",
    "hint": "`error.existing_id` names it. This is the duplicate-invoice guard working.",
    "retriable": false,
    "doc_url": "https://docs.facturia.cl/errors/external_id_exists",
    "request_id": "req_01K2R7Q9M4T2VB"
  }
}

Program against code, never against message — the prose can be rewritten, the code cannot (§5.8).

hint and retriable arrive in the response with these exact values: they are a function of code and come from the same dictionary GET /v1/error_codes serves, so the envelope and the dictionary cannot disagree. Both are English on the wire by design — one registry, one language. More in The error envelope.

See also

The machine-readable copy of this page lives at GET /v1/error_codes, unauthenticated.