Checking a VAT number takes a minute. Keeping the evidence, with the date and the reference number alongside, is the bit that gets skipped. That is exactly the bit you need when a question comes up later.
Raydo does the check and keeps the answer in the customer's file. That turns backing up reverse-charge VAT into a matter of looking it up.
Answers your question. After that the work is still there.
Sees for itself what has to happen and prepares the work for your approval.
Four actions, and no more than that. Raydo looks and changes nothing.
Whether the VAT number is valid at the moment of the check
The name and the address VIES returns for that number
The evidence of the check in the customer's file
The date and the reference number of the query
Raydo queries VIES and keeps the answer. What you do with that answer is up to you.
Before the reverse-charge invoice goes out the door, the check is already in the file.
With a new customerCompany checkThe VAT number is checked as soon as it is known, not only at the first invoice.
On requestCustomer pictureThe outcome of the check sits in the customer picture, next to the rest of what you know about the customer.
Whenever you want to know somethingLooking things upAsk whether a number is right and the answer comes with the date of the query alongside.
Beta partners have a say in which tasks come next.
Read what the beta programme involvesQuery a VAT number at VIES
Keep the answer with the date and reference number
Show you when the check was done
Decide whether you may reverse-charge the VAT
Apply for or change a VAT number
Claim anything VIES did not answer
VIES says whether a number was valid at that moment. Whether you may reverse-charge the VAT is a question for you and your accountant.
The European Commission's checking system for VAT numbers. No permission is needed for that, because the system is public.
With the date and the reference number, so you can show it later.
With the customer it concerns, without having to search for it.
A query at VIES is about a VAT number, not about a person.
Every check says when Raydo did it and what VIES answered.
Everything Raydo keeps from this stays inside Europe.
Raydo never changes anything at VIES or at a tax authority.
Then the number cannot be confirmed at that moment. Raydo keeps that outcome just the same, because that too is something you want to be able to show later.
For a valid number VIES returns the name and the address. Raydo keeps those, so you can lay them next to your own details.
The check is the evidence that you looked at that moment. Whether you may reverse-charge the VAT is a tax question. Raydo supplies the grounds, not the judgement.
As long as that customer's file exists. You can always find it back with the customer itself.
VIES covers VAT numbers inside the European Union, so Dutch ones as well. For the registration of a Dutch company there is the Chamber of Commerce register.
We take on a small number of companies as beta partners. We run alongside you for four to six weeks on your own data, and it costs you nothing. Together we measure where things stand up front, so at the end you can see what changed.