RET191176
Shipping bill date out of range
What the portal shows
Do enter the correct shipping bill date that is on or after Invoice Date and on or before today’s date
On an export invoice, the shipping bill date is before the invoice date or in the future.
What it means
Export invoices carry shipping bill details, and the portal enforces that the shipping bill date falls between the invoice date and today. A date outside that window is rejected. Format mismatches are as common a cause as genuinely wrong dates.
Common causes
- The shipping bill date was entered as earlier than the invoice date.
- A future date was entered, often a typo in the year.
- DD/MM and MM/DD formats were mixed between systems.
- The shipping bill relates to a different invoice.
How to fix it
- Check each export invoice: shipping bill date must be on or after the invoice date and not in the future.
- Verify the date format your export writes matches what the utility expects.
- Confirm the shipping bill actually belongs to that invoice.
This one is catchable before you upload
RET191176 is produced by something already present in your invoice data — our Invoice date sanity checks flags it before the file reaches the portal, so you fix it once instead of discovering it on upload day.
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Reviewed 13 August 2026. GSTN changes error wording and adds codes without notice, and this is general information rather than tax advice — confirm the current position on gst.gov.in or with your CA.