The Magento VIES Module adds fields to Magento's customer profile for European VAT number support. It also provides a two level VAT number validation. The first validation is syntactic. The second uses the VAT Information Exchange System (VIES)'s Web Service. The information about the validity of the VAT number is also stored as read-only fields in the customer profile.

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