Guides

Using VAT numbers in your product

Practical pages about what a VAT number is good for once you have one, and about what gets in the way. Written from what we ran into building Vatlas, limits included.

Autofill a company form from a VAT number

One field instead of six. What autofill changes for a B2B sign-up, why no single method works across countries, and how to design a form that stays usable when no answer comes back.

Getting a company's name and address from a VAT number

What a VAT number tells you, why every country publishes that data differently (open data files here, a national API there, nothing at all somewhere else), and the three ways to reach the company behind a number.

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Last updated 9 September 2026.

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