#mike_best-practices
alpine nacelleBOT
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urban latch
Unfortunatley not, it looks like you need either a Customer or Account to use our tax IDs API. Can you tell me more about what you are trying to do?
rose nymph
on a user (tenant) registration we require at least following info:
- countryCode (US, CA, FR, DE, etc.)
- taxId (registration number | null = no registration at all)
later the customer can register for stripe tax api to utilize tax features but the taxId has been already stored in his account... 🤷♂️
urban latch
Ah so you are using connect, but want to delay when you actually create the account? I am not sure if we have a flow that can cover that but can look in to it
rose nymph
I think it is important not only for connected accounts (vendors) but also for the customers (without stripe accounts) as they can have multiple tax-registrations as well... 🤷♂️
alpine nacelleBOT
urban latch
I am still not seeing a way to do this without either of those two objects. For Customers, it may make sense to make a dummy customer with no data and add the Customer's details later when you collect them
rose nymph
well, we are platform and the customers are the customers for the vendors while vendors are the customers for us. we don't want to create the vendors' customers in our account
shrewd wadi
Hello! I'm taking over and catching up...
I'm not sure I 100% understand the issue you're facing. What do you mean by "validate Tax ID provided by a user" exactly?
rose nymph
I agree the expression "by user" can be confusing. I try to reword: when anybody is registering to our platform they must 1) select their country and 2) choose between "no-tax-registration" or "tax-registration". If they select tax-registration they must enter tax-id and we would like to validate it (verify if this is correct) before we allow the registration.
shrewd wadi
Gotcha. We do perform some validation, but it's not comprehensive. Ultimately it's up to you to verify the IDs on your end, as documented here: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/customer/tax-ids#validation
rose nymph
Yes, that's from where I use the patterns but I have no idea how to validate the code during the registration process on your side?
I can simply validate the format by using your suggested regex pattern however it's not real validation - just checking the format
shrewd wadi
What do you mean by "real validation"?
rose nymph
Such as If the vat really exists and is active.
shrewd wadi
You can validate a VAT using VIES: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/vat-validation
I think they have an API somewhere as well.
Yeah, I think there's info here about it: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/technical-information
rose nymph
I know they have. I thought I can utilise your APIs to check tax-ids from more regions (not just eu)
shrewd wadi
You can, as long as there's an existing Customer. If you don't have a Customer, you can't.
rose nymph
I see. So I would have to create every new registered tenant as customer, right?
Not planned but possible
shrewd wadi
Sounds like it, yes.
shrewd wadi
Not sure I understand, are you asking about the Stripe API to create a Tax ID? If so, that's here: https://docs.stripe.com/api/tax_ids
rose nymph
Ok, I’ll figure out