Message Processing

The following table lists the possible responses to a validation request:

ResponseDescription
tax-number-validation-not-availableThe service was not able to validate this number.
tax-number-syntax-validThe syntax of the ID is valid. However, no further validations were done. For some countries, it can also involve a check sum validation.
tax-number-syntax-invalidThe syntax of the ID is invalid.
tax-number-valid-according-to-external-serviceThe Tax ID has been validated against the external service's list of Tax IDs and is valid.
tax-number-invalid-according-to-external-serviceThe Tax ID has been validated against the external service's database of Tax IDs and is invalid.
tax-number-service-temporarily-unavailable Could not connect to validation service due to temporary unavailability of the service.
tax-number-syntax-considered-valid-but-not-verifiedThis message can occur due to the same reasons as the tax-number-service-temporarily-unavailable message. The difference here is that this message occurs when the on-error settings are used.