Magento1: VAT Validation using EU VIES service

Question

Magento is using EU VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) service to validate the VAT-IDs (http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl)

Is it reliable and how Magento is using it?

As VIES/Web team proposes following recommendation to ensure validation can be performed without blocking:

1. you perform 20k or less requests for VAT validations per day,
2. you perform up to 5 validations to a unique VAT number per day,
3. you avoid performing blank or null or white space or corrupted or invalid (syntax, length) validations
4. you perform validations preferably until 10:00 am CET and/or after 18:00 CET

Answer 1

Recieved confirmation from VIES-on-the-Web (VoW)

• The below are simply a proposal for you to follow;
• If you make proper use of the VoW you can make as many requests as you need. There are no restrictions or limits either by means of volume or time of validation;
• All conditions for using the VoW service are provided in the disclaimer at the corresponding page of the VoW: (Specific disclaimer for this service) http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/disclaimer.html
• You may also navigate through the remaining pages as well as the FAQ page of the VoW website for additional information