Organizations

Validate a VAT number against the VIES database

Validates a VAT number against the official European Union VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) database. Includes retry logic and rate limiting to comply with VIES best practices.

post/organizations/validate-vat

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.xfa.tech
  • URL: https://api.xfa.tech/organizations/validate-vat
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Request body

vatstring required

VAT number to validate (e.g., NL123456789B01)

Response

VAT validation result

validboolean required

Whether the VAT number is valid according to VIES

country_codestring

Country code extracted from VAT number

vat_numberstring

VAT number without country code

namestring

Company name from VIES (if valid)

addressstring

Company address from VIES (if valid)

request_datestring date-time

Date of the validation request

request_identifierstring

Request identifier for audit purposes

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.