Overview
VIES is the European Commission’s VAT Information Exchange System. Enabling it in Spott lets you validate EU VAT numbers against the official service.Enable VIES for your workspace
Go to Settings → Integrations → VIES and turn on Enable VIES. This allows VAT numbers to be validated with VIES when creating companies.
Only workspace admins can enable this integration. If you don’t see this option, contact your workspace admin.
Where validation happens
Once enabled, VAT numbers are checked against VIES as you type them, in two places:- When you create or edit a company.
- When you generate a Creditsafe credit report, which looks the company up by its tax identifier. Catching a bad number here saves a wasted lookup.