Cross-border invoices, validated live.
Reverse-charge isn’t optional when you invoice a German agency or a Dutch B2B customer. Validate a counterparty’s EU VAT ID against the live VIES registry, surface the registered company name, and flag the entry as reverse-charge, with the proof stored for audit.
Paste a VAT ID, watch it resolve.
Type or paste an EU VAT ID. Baslic hits VIES live and returns the registered company name, address, and a verified-at timestamp. If the ID is invalid, you see why, instantly.
Typical lookup: ~400 ms, measured from our own servers. Every check is stored as audit proof.
EU VIES · live lookup
Counterparty VAT ID
DE 129 273 398
Bauhaus AG · Mannheim, Germany
Carl-Benz-Str. 34, 68167 Mannheim · DE
Flagged on validation
Reverse-charge · ALV 0%
EU_REVERSE_CHARGEEvery outcome, on the record.
Valid VIES + EU B2B service
- YInvoice a German agency for SaaS access
- BVIES live-check returns “valid: Bauhaus AG”
- BAdds 0% VAT line + reverse-charge note
- BStores VIES response timestamp for audit
EU_REVERSE_CHARGEInvalid / non-existent VAT ID
- YCounterparty gives you a VAT ID
- BVIES live-check returns “not registered”
- BFlags invoice, cannot use reverse-charge
- BSuggests Finnish VAT (25.5%) or B2C handling
VIES temporarily offline
- YForward invoice to a recently-validated EU B2B
- BVIES API times out (it happens)
- BServes cached response (< 24h old) if available
- BElse queues for retry, receipt held, not lost
Yyou · BBaslic
Four things most apps skip.
Live, not stale
Every VIES check is a fresh live call. A 6-month-old check doesn’t satisfy a Finnish auditor, and it doesn’t satisfy us.
Cached audit proof
VIES response, company name, address, and verified-at timestamp are stored with the invoice. Your auditor can replay the validation a year later.
Reverse-charge automation
Valid VIES + EU service invoice → 0% VAT + “käännetty verovelvollisuus” note applied, with the reasoning behind it.
Country-aware
Knows the VAT ID format quirks: GR uses EL, NL ends in B plus two digits, IT has 11 digits. Validates the format locally before calling VIES, which saves API calls.
All 27 EU members.
Every member state’s VAT ID format is supported, validated locally, and verified live against VIES. UK, NO, CH, US counterparties, handled separately as non-EU exports (0% with proof attached).
AT
Austria
BE
Belgium
BG
Bulgaria
HR
Croatia
CY
Cyprus
CZ
Czechia
DK
Denmark
EE
Estonia
FI
Finland
FR
France
DE
Germany
EL
Greece
HU
Hungary
IE
Ireland
IT
Italy
LV
Latvia
LT
Lithuania
LU
Luxembourg
MT
Malta
NL
Netherlands
PL
Poland
PT
Portugal
RO
Romania
SK
Slovakia
SI
Slovenia
ES
Spain
SE
Sweden
Selling to EU consumers? OSS, on the roadmap.
Under the EU OSS scheme, B2C goods to consumers in other EU countries get the customer’s country VAT once you cross €10,000 / year. Automatic threshold tracking and quarterly-return prep are on our roadmap, today we flag OSS lines so you handle them manually.
Send your first EU B2B invoice, validated.
Try it on a real counterparty. VIES check in ~400 ms, reverse-charge attached, audit proof stored.