Cross-border invoices, validated live.
Reverse-charge isn't optional when you invoice a German agency or a Dutch B2B customer. Baslic hits the EU VIES registry live on every cross-border invoice, surfaces the company name, and flags the entry as reverse-charge — before you click save.
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. Cached for 24h — re-validating the same counterparty within a day is free.
EU VIES · live lookup
Counterparty VAT ID
DE 129 273 398
Bauhaus AG · Mannheim, Germany
Carl-Benz-Str. 34, 68167 Mannheim · DE
Auto-flagged
Reverse-charge · ALV 0%
ruleId: vat-fi-rc-eu-b2bEvery outcome, a named rule.
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
vat-fi-rc-eu-b2bInvalid / 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
vat-fi-vies-invalidVIES 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
vat-fi-vies-fallbackYyou · BBaslic
Four things most apps skip.
Live, not stale
Every cross-border invoice triggers a fresh VIES 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 auto-added to the invoice text. ruleId attached.
Country-aware
Knows the VAT ID format quirks: GR uses EL, NL has the C/P suffix, IT has 11 digits. Validates locally before hitting VIES — 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 handled.
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. Baslic tracks the threshold, switches the rate automatically, and prepares the OSS quarterly return.
Send your first EU B2B invoice — validated.
Try it on a real counterparty. VIES check in ~400 ms, reverse-charge attached, audit proof stored.