#geordi-invoice-vat
gilded fractal
Verify that the VAT is valid (as it's shown in the Stripe docs here) https://stripe.com/docs/tax/tax-ids#european-value-added-tax-(eu-vat)-numbers
Is there some type of pre-flight synchronous request that can be made to have this validated along with customer name and address?
Before a subscription is created and invoice is issue to the customer - to avoid the need to refund and re-create the subscription upon invalid VAT
wraith cradle
I'm... confused so please bear with me. Collecting tax ids is done entirely separately from a Subscription. So I don't get what you call "pre-flight synchronous request"
gilded fractal
No worries - let me try to explain better.
When a customer is created we can optionally do a separate request to add a tax ID to the customer.
This results in the webhook firing tax_id.updated with the verification status of the tax id
I wanted to know if there was a way to wait for the verification process synchronously, through an API endpoint, as opposed to waiting for status changes through a webhook
wraith cradle
Ah gotcha then no that is not possible. You have to wait for the event as it can take a while since we're using an external partner to verify it
gilded fractal
Ah okay, in the docs above it mentions it takes a few seconds usually - what is your experience of this? We can always hold the UI waiting for the status to be verified but just evaluating the risks
wraith cradle
It can be quick, it can be slow, you have to be resilient to this