Status

Two kinds of information: what we report about our own components (by hand, with incidents written when they happen), and what the Commission’s VIES reports about itself and each member state (fetched every five minutes). A member state marked unavailable means validations for that country are answered from the dated cache, or 503 when no cached answer exists. The 24-hour and 30-day record per member state, the outage episodes and the error codes are on the VIES status page.

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Components (self-reported)

operational
  • API (/api/v1)

    Functions in Paris (cdg1). Self-reported; updated by the owner.

    operational
  • EU VAT validation

    Depends on the Commission’s VIES and on each member state; see the live table below. Cached answers are served, marked stale, when a state is down.

    operational
  • EU VAT rates

    Static table, no upstream dependency.

    operational
  • IBAN validation

    Static registry, no upstream dependency.

    operational
  • OSS / IOSS return

    Computed from your rows and the rates table; no upstream dependency.

    operational
  • French company data

    Depends on the open Recherche d’entreprises API (and the INSEE Sirene API when configured); cached answers, marked stale, are served when they are down.

    operational
  • US sales-tax rates

    Static tables (state rates, WA and OH ZIP files), no upstream dependency; refreshed quarterly.

    operational
  • Sign-up and keys

    Depends on the database and on outgoing mail.

    operational
  • Paid checkout

    Closed until the merchant of record approves the site; the waitlist is open.

    maintenance

VIES availability by member state

relay available

From the Commission’s check-status endpoint, fetched 2026-11-07 21:09:13 UTC, cached five minutes.

  • AT
  • BE
  • BG
  • CY
  • CZ
  • DE
  • DK
  • EE
  • EL
  • ES
  • FI
  • FR
  • HR
  • HU
  • IE
  • IT
  • LT
  • LU
  • LV
  • MT
  • NL
  • PL
  • PT
  • RO
  • SE
  • SI
  • SK
  • XI

Incidents

  • 2026-10-24 · resolved

    Service published

    First public version of the API and the documentation. No incident recorded yet; this page is updated by hand when one happens, and the VIES table below updates itself.

Machine-readable: GET /api/v1/status (free, no key).

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