Vertex Validator offers a real-time business-to-business (B2B) validation service that fits into your users’ workflows and helps fulfil several use cases. This service is especially valuable as the tax treatment can vary from the business-to-consumer (B2C) channel in many locations.

The service's API provides a way to manage your tax ID verification across multiple regions. This helps you to meet demanding and diverse requirements of various tax authorities.

Features

The solution offers the following capabilities:

• Customers who may want to integrate supplier verification into their supplier onboarding process can also utilize this service.
• You can use the service to verify their buyer’s business status before commencing a commercial relationship.
• You can use the Validate Tax IDs request to validate a bulk load of Tax IDs.

Restrictions

• You cannot block countries.
• Single Sign-On (SSO) is not supported in this version.
• You must send 1 Tax ID per request. You cannot verify multiple IDs in a single request.

API Integration

To access the API, you need to retrieve your access token, as described in the API Authentication topic.

You can use the Validate Tax Number request to integrate.

Settings

The following settings are available and can be set in the request:

You can use the Cache setting to vary whether the cache is checked or not. The following sections show examples for a real-time validation (where the cache is set to 0) and a cached validation (where the cache is set to 30 days).

Real-Time validation

The following diagram shows a typical process flow where the cache is set to 0:

Cached validation

Post processing

Messages

Messages are described in the Message Processing topic.

Reports

You can view details about validation requests in the Tax Number Validations UI.