Validate

Real-time tax ID validation. Globally.

What is Fonoa Validate

Fonoa Validate checks customer, supplier, and seller tax identities against live government registries in 120+ countries. Search by company name, clean master data at scale, and stop poor tax data before it moves downstream.

Capabilities

Validation that goes deeper than a format check

Live data from 120+ government registries

Results reflect current registration status from live government sources.

Finds any tax number by name

No tax ID on hand? Search by name and Fonoa Validate returns the registered tax ID and associated details.

Data like name and address included

Returns the registered business name, address, and tax metadata, not just a valid or invalid flag.

Validates 50,000 records in one batch

Smart queuing and request routing for large batches to maximize data completion and verification success.

Confirms your supplier is VAT-registered before you pay their invoice

Ensure a business is a registered VAT payer before you process their invoice and before you claim input VAT.

Fix poor data automatically

Fuzzy matching catches mismatched, incomplete, or outdated VAT data before it moves downstream.
The proof is in the numbers

Lookup runs instant validations using live government data

120+
Countries covered

Via live connections to government systems

98%
Faster validation

For a global logistics company.

1 day
Or less to implement

With API documentation that dev teams rave about.

How teams use Validate

You operate a marketplace with multiple sellers and buyers

Verifies tax identity on both sides before onboarding and at every transaction

New customer onboarding

Validates their tax ID in real time, before the transaction completes

An invoice arrives from a supplier

Confirms they are a registered VAT payer, protecting your right to reclaim input VAT

You need to comply with an e-invoicing mandate

Verifies and enriches customer tax data to meet structured data requirements

Keeping tax data current

Full integration with the Fonoa Platform

Your master data has gaps, errors, or legacy records

Runs fuzzy matching and name-based search to find, fix, and enrich at scale

Customer stories

Don’t just take our word for it. Why companies around the world prefer Fonoa.

Fonoa is a core piece of indirect tax infrastructure.

One Jae Paik
Tax Director at Fin

36

countries

58.8%

reduction in errors

100%

automated validation

Fonoa is one of the few platforms that truly understands digital economy businesses and supports the full indirect tax lifecycle.

Wei Jie Siow
Tax Director at Coda

90%

faster tax calculation

4

week implementation

2M

transactions per year

When we talk about scaling, we want to automatically trigger an API to see if the tax ID is valid or not. Fonoa's API was a huge differentiator.

Renan Bastazini
Staff Technical Program Manager at Wellhub

33%

reduction in tax ID validation tickets

15%

submitted IDs caught as invalid

#1

API speed vs. other vendors

Fonoa's solutions aren't just saving us time, they're helping us stay ahead of regulatory change, globally.

Kirsten Best
Head of VAT at Remote

480

hours saved per year

95+

countries live

100s

corrected VAT IDs
Rated by the people who rely on us

Built on trust.
Measured in results.

100%
Customer retention

Every customer who started 2025 with us renewed.

97%
Ease of doing business

G2 reviewers highlighted end-to-end collaboration and availability.

94%
Quality of support

G2 reviewers highlighted
response times and expertise.

4.6/5
Gartner Peer Insights rating

Independent reviews from
verified enterprise users.

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