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- 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.
- maintenance
Paid checkout
Closed until the merchant of record approves the site; the waitlist is open.
VIES availability by member state
relay availableFrom 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).
Sources
- VIES — help page: what the consultation number proves, member-state availability — European Commission, DG TAXUD, consulted 2026-10-24