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Readme.md
VIES
VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) is an electronic mean of validating VAT-identification numbers of economic operators registered in the European Union for cross border transactions on goods or services. You can verify the validity of a VAT number issued by any Member State / Northern Ireland by selecting that Member State / Northern Ireland from the drop-down menu provided, and entering the number to be validated.
Publisher: Tomasz Poszytek
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Supported Operations
Check VAT validity
Action looks up data in VIES database to see, if for given country's ISO code and VAT number there is a registered company. If data is valid, service will return "true" along with company's details. Otherwise it will return false.
Obtaining Credentials
No credentials needed.
Known Issues and Limitations
Sometimes requests to VIES may take more time than expected which may lead to timeouts. If you face such issues, try building requests to VIES in a loop running until a correct response is received. Apart from that, no other issues or limitations are known at the moment of api creation.
Changelog
1.0: Initial release of the Independent Publisher Connector. 2.0: Updates to the connector caused by changes in VIES endpoint.
Getting Started
Visit https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vatRequest.html to test the api on your own.