Comments on: European VAT Number Validation API

By: Angelos G.

Angelos G. — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:20:44 +0000

Here you can download a PHP script that I wrote which queries the VIES website. It was written for x-cart but can be included to any PHP code. You just need to call one function which will return if zero rating should be applied or not. It even emails or saves a copy of the VIES reply for archiving. http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=62401

By: Vies

Vies — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:53:44 +0000

I found a website where you can verify several VAT numbers at once.

For many it can be very helpful.

direct link: http://vatnumber.info/en/vies_mass_vat_numbers_validation.html

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:37:03 +0000

hi Aral,
I am trying to get the API to work but cannot seem to get the data in the callback request. Can someone send me a code sample of how to do this in JS ?

thank you kindly,
Chris

By: ph

ph — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:53:31 +0000

Hi!

I just came across your post looking for a guaranteed API from the EU.

Actually there is an API in form of a SOAP web service provided by the EU. The link to the WSDL file download is in the FAQ you reference on your project’s website. This service has been available for many years already.

Best regards,
Peter

By: Pragnesh

Pragnesh — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:10:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing.
Really Helped me lot !!

By: saravanan

saravanan — Fri, 20 May 2011 09:02:44 +0000

European VAT registration number

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:44:11 +0000

Hey Aral

This has always been a most useful service but today it seems to have gone down :(

It doesn’t appear to be a problem with European Commissions Service. Any ideas?

By: Rhia

Rhia — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:37:34 +0000

Hi Aral,

Why is that if I paste the link

http://isvat.appspot.com/GB/802311782/

in IE 8 it is downloading a file rather then returning “True” or “false”. It works perfectly fine with Firefox.
by the way you have done a very cool job :-)

By: Rob L

Rob L — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:48:03 +0000

For anyone interested in checking a large number of VAT numbers without going to the trouble of developing an API you can go to http://www.gbrdirect and upload all the the numbers from a simple text file. The results will be emailed back to you. You can check thousands of numbers in seconds!

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:30:42 +0000

If you need to check a lot of VAT numbers in a small time, you should try on this site: http://www.gbrdirect.eu/
It can provide VAT numbers of thousands of companies in europe, in a few seconds…
Hope it’s helpful!
Guillaume.