🇪🇺 VIES EU VAT Number Validator

🚀 Batch-validate EU VAT numbers across all 27 member states. Get company names, addresses, validity status, and official EU timestamps for compliance-ready records.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Cross-border invoicing in the EU requires valid VAT numbers. VIES is the European Commission's official validation system. This tool lets you batch-validate hundreds or thousands of VAT numbers in one run, returning the registered company name, structured address fields, and an official EU timestamp for each check.

No manual one-by-one lookups. Paste your VAT numbers, click Start, and download validated results as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🎯 Target	VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) by the European Commission
🔎 Best for	Invoice validation, KYC checks, CRM cleanup, cross-border compliance

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📋 What it does

• Validates each VAT number against the official EU VIES system and returns a boolean validity flag
• Returns registered company name and full address when published by the member state
• Parses addresses into structured fields (street, postal code, city) for direct database use
• Supports all 27 EU member states plus XI (Northern Ireland) and includes official EU timestamps for audit trails

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🎬 Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
Max Items	integer	Free users: limited to 10 validations. Paid users: up to 1,000,000.
VAT Numbers	string[]	EU VAT numbers with country prefix (e.g. "IT00159560366", "DE811109517", "FR12345678901").

Example 1: Validate multiple VAT numbers

{
    "vatNumbers": ["IT00159560366", "DE811109517", "FR12345678901"],
    "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2: Bulk validation

{
    "vatNumbers": [
        "NL001234567B01",
        "ES12345678A",
        "BE0123456789",
        "AT12345678",
        "PL1234567890"
    ],
    "maxItems": 500
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Each VAT number must include the 2-letter country prefix (IT, DE, FR, etc.). Some member states restrict publishing company names and addresses through VIES. In those cases, the validity flag is still returned but name and address fields may be empty. Free users are limited to 10 validations per run.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema

Each validation returns a complete record with validity status, company info, parsed address fields, and an official EU timestamp.

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✨ Why choose this validator

Feature	Details
Batch validation	Validate hundreds or thousands of VAT numbers in one run
All 27 EU states plus XI	AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, XI
Parsed address fields	Street, postal code, and city split into separate fields
Official EU timestamps	Request date from VIES for compliance audit trails
Company name returned	Registered business name when published by the member state
Real-time validation	Each check hits VIES live for current registration status
Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel	Download validated records in the format you need

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares

Capability	This validator	Manual VIES form
Batch validation	Thousands per run	One at a time
Parsed address fields	Street, postal code, city	Single text blob
Audit-ready timestamps	Included automatically	Must record manually
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel	Not supported
Automated scheduling	Daily or weekly checks	Manual visits
API access	Programmatic run and retrieval	Browser only
All 27 EU states	One tool for all	Same form, one at a time

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit)
2. Search for VIES EU VAT Validator in the Apify Store
3. Paste your list of VAT numbers with country prefixes
4. Click Start and wait for results
5. Download validated records as JSON, CSV, or Excel

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💼 Business cases

Use case	How it helps
Cross-border invoice validation	Verify customer VAT numbers before issuing zero-rated invoices
KYC and customer onboarding	Confirm new B2B customers are real registered companies
CRM database cleanup	Flag stale or invalid VAT records in your customer database
Recurring billing compliance	Re-check VAT validity periodically for subscription customers

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test VIES EU VAT Number Validator and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running VIES EU VAT Number Validator regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running VIES EU VAT Number Validator at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using VIES EU VAT Number Validator

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run VIES EU VAT Number Validator on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use VIES EU VAT Number Validator?

Yes. VIES EU VAT Number Validator only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating runs

Schedule the VIES EU VAT Validator to run weekly or monthly to re-validate your customer database. Connect with Make or Zapier to trigger validation when new customers sign up. Pair with Google Sheets to maintain a validated customer spreadsheet or Slack to get alerts when invalid VAT numbers are detected.

🔌 Integrate with your tools

• Make - Automate VAT validation workflows
• Zapier - Validate new customers on signup
• Slack - Get alerts on invalid VAT numbers
• Google Sheets - Maintain a validated customer sheet
• Airbyte - Build compliance data pipelines
• Webhooks - Trigger billing workflows on completion

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🔌 Integrate with any app

VIES EU VAT Number Validator connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🆘 Need help?

Contact us through our support form to request a new scraper, report an issue, or propose a custom project.

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Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to VIES, the European Commission, or any EU institution. It uses only publicly available validation services.

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