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beyonddigitalit/vies-vat-validation
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Vat Information Exchange System, VAT number Validation.

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VIES Vat Number Validation - Laravel
====================================

[](#vies-vat-number-validation---laravel)

Vat Information Exchange System (VIES), is an electronic mean of validating VAT-identification numbers of economic operators registered in the European Union for cross border transactions on goods or services.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Require this package with composer.

```
composer require beyonddigitalit/vies-vat-validation
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
    namespace App\Http\Controllers;

    use Illuminate\Http\Request;
    use Facades\Beyonddigitalit\ViesVatValidation\ViesVatValidator;

    class ValidationController extends Controller
    {
        try {
            $response = ViesVatValidator::validate("GB844281425");
        } catch (\Exception) {
            // Handle exception here.
        }
    }
```

Usage for testing
-----------------

[](#usage-for-testing)

Please use this method for testing. See below table for valid and invalid Vat numbers to use for testing. Remember these Vat Numbers will only work with the test endpoint as seen in the below example.

```
use Beyonddigitalit\ViesVatValidation\ViesVatValidator;

$vatValidator = new ViesVatValidator(
    'https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatTestService.wsdl'
);

$response = $vatValidator->validate("GB100");
```

Vat NumberResponse100Valid request with Valid VAT Number200Valid request with an Invalid VAT Number201Error : INVALID\_INPUT202Error : INVALID\_REQUESTER\_INFO300Error : SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE301Error : MS\_UNAVAILABLE302Error : TIMEOUT400Error : VAT\_BLOCKED401Error : IP\_BLOCKED500Error : GLOBAL\_MAX\_CONCURRENT\_REQ501Error : GLOBAL\_MAX\_CONCURRENT\_REQ\_TIME600Error : MS\_MAX\_CONCURRENT\_REQ601Error : MS\_MAX\_CONCURRENT\_REQ\_TIME For all the other cases, The web service will responds with a "SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE" errorResponse Object
---------------

[](#response-object)

The response will be a `ViesValidatorResponse` you can then call the below methods to access the data.

```
$response = ViesVatValidator::validate("GB844281425");

$response->isValid(); // boolean value
$response->getCountryCode(); // GB
$response->getVatNumber(); // B844281425
$response->getRequestDate(); // Carbon instance, date
$response->getName(); // name of the registered entity
$response->getAddress(); // address of the registered entity
```

Tests
-----

[](#tests)

```
vendor/bin/phpunit
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Pull requests are welcome.

License
-------

[](#license)

[MIT](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/)

###  Health Score

18

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Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity32

Early-stage or recently created project

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