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Setting Up VAT Validation Rules

Parallels Business Automation - Standard provides a tool for VAT number format validation. This is a preliminary validation that is not related to the Anti-Fraud Manager.

The VAT validation is not very strict and allows filtering an absolutely incorrect VAT numbers.

Preliminary VAT validation is applied at the moment when a customer saves an account data

In case a VAT number does not pass a preliminary validation, it will be not allowed to save an account data with such a VAT number.

The default set of VAT validation rules is a number of regular expressions that define the correct VAT format for most of European countries.

The list of VAT validation rules displays the following:

The buttons above the list of Rules serve for:

To add a rule:

  1. Click the Add Rule button.
  2. Fill the form:
    1. Country. Select the country from the drop-down menu.
    2. Validation rule. Enter the regular expression that defines VAT format for this country and will to be used for VAT number validation for customers that specify this country in their accounts.
  3. Click the Update button.

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