SEPA Character Validator

Check texts for SEPA compliance

Validate payment recipients, references and other SEPA fields for allowed characters according to DFUe Agreement Annex 3.

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Allowed characters

According to DFUe Agreement Annex 3, the following characters are allowed in SEPA fields:

A-Z, a-z (no umlauts)

A-Z a-z

0-9

0-9
:'?,-(+.)/␣
Maximum length

Payment recipient: max. 70 characters

Payment reference: max. 140 characters

Common errors
  • Umlauts (ae, oe, ue, ss) - Replace with ae, oe, ue, ss
  • Euro sign (€) - Not allowed
  • Ampersand (&) - Not allowed
  • Quotation marks (" ") - Not allowed
  • Semicolon (;) - Not allowed