Introducing: Multiple VAT Numbers for Customers (2024 release wave 2)
Multiple VAT numbers for customers in Business Central (2024 release wave 2), in public preview and expected in version 25.0. Covers setup of alternative VAT registrations per country, use in sales documents, VAT entries, VAT return and settlement filters, and extensibility interfaces.
- Introduction and business requirement
- Why multiple VAT numbers are needed
- Setup scenarios and configuration
- Sales documents and VAT number application
- VAT entries and alternative registration page
- Demo - setup from customer card
- Demo - applying VAT numbers to sales orders
- Demo - custom addresses and VAT reporting
- Architecture and extensibility
- Summary and call to action
Overview
The video explains why companies operating in several European Union countries need more than one VAT registration number per customer, described as a legal requirement. It shows how to define alternative VAT registrations per country, with optional VAT and general business posting groups, either from the customer card or in a dedicated table and page.
The demos show a notification when a ship-to address with a different country is created, sales orders picking up the VAT number for the ship-to country with a confirmation dialog, custom addresses, and the new country region filter in VAT return and VAT settlement. The video also covers three interfaces developers can use to customize the behavior. The feature currently applies to customers only, not vendors or the company.
Key points
- Status: public preview, stated to be available in version 25.0.
- Each customer can have one alternative VAT number per country, with optional VAT and general business posting groups.
- Creating a ship-to address with a different country code triggers a notification to create an alternative VAT registration if none exists.
- Sales documents use the alternative VAT number based on the ship-to country; a confirmation dialog shows the change and the user can disable it.
- A new VAT country region code field in sales documents is posted to VAT entries so they can be filtered by country.
- VAT return suggest lines and the calculate and post VAT settlement batch job get a country region filter; the VAT return filter supports multiple countries and exclusion.
- Limited to customers for now; vendors and company are not yet covered. Three interfaces allow custom logic for ship-to country changes, consistency checks and sales document behavior.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple VAT numbers for customers | preview, demoed | 0:46 | “this is available in a public preview and it will be available for 25.0 version” (16:59) |
| Alternative customer VAT registration table | status not stated, demoed | 1:47 | |
| Automatic VAT notification on ship-to address creation | status not stated, demoed | 2:47 | |
| VAT number application in sales documents | status not stated, demoed | 4:08 | |
| VAT country region code field in documents | status not stated, demoed | 5:28 | |
| Custom address option in sales documents | status not stated, demoed | 11:44 | |
| Country region filter in VAT return | status not stated, demoed | 13:25 | |
| Country region filter in VAT settlement | status not stated, demoed | 13:46 | |
| Ship-to alternate customer VAT registration interface | status not stated | 14:46 | |
| Alternative customer VAT registration consistency interface | status not stated | 15:37 | |
| Alternative customer VAT registration document interface | status not stated | 16:18 |
AL objects mentioned
As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.
- table “alternative customer VAT registration” at 1:47
- page “alternative customer VAT registration” at 6:29
- interface “ship to alternate customer VAT registration” at 15:06
- interface “alternative customer VAT registration consist” at 15:37
- interface “alternative customer VAT registration Doc” at 16:18
Not found in BC28-30: table “alternative customer VAT registration”, page “alternative customer VAT registration”, interface “ship to alternate customer VAT registration”, interface “alternative customer VAT registration consist”, interface “alternative customer VAT registration Doc”.
Quotes
- 0:46 “this is a legal requirement when companies operate in different countries across the european union”
- 2:07 “you can configure one vat per country you cannot have more countries for the same customers”
- 16:38 “the whole feature is highly highly extensible um and if you want to change any part of it”
- 16:59 “this is available in a public preview and it will be available for 25.0 version so it will be immediately in our major”
Disclaimers in the video
- 1:06 not-in-this-release: it can be applied to customers for vendors for company as well but we had to start from somewhere so we couldn’t deliver everything in one hit
- 16:59 preview: this is available in a public preview and it will be available for 25.0 version
Presenters (as heard): Alexander, Arthur.