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Every application with an EU VAT ID is checked against VIES, the European Commission's official VAT information system. Anmelda confirms the number is registered and active, and stores the result and timestamp with the application, writing them to the company's metafields on approval, so you can show what was checked and when. Where VIES returns a consultation number it is stored too. If VIES is slow or briefly down, the check retries automatically.

Three official sources: EU VIES for VAT IDs across all EU member states; Zefix, the Swiss central business name index, for company status, registered seat and legal form (plus a UID format check); and UK Companies House for registration status, company name match and incorporation date. Checks start automatically the moment an application arrives.

Yes, on the Pro plan. An auto-approval rule approves an application only when every applicable verification check has passed and — if you set a country allowlist — the applicant's country is on it. Applicants that no register covers are never auto-approved; they always wait for your manual review.

Anmelda creates the native Shopify B2B company with a company location built from the business address in the application, and links the applicant as the company's main contact. On Pro it also assigns the right catalog. The buyer gets a decision email and can order at B2B terms; the checkout lock and price hiding lift automatically for them. Provisioning is resume-safe: if a step fails, it picks up where it left off.

No. Anmelda creates B2B companies, locations and contacts on every Shopify plan. The difference is catalogs: assigning catalogs directly to company locations is a Plus feature, so on non-Plus plans Anmelda uses B2B market catalogs instead (Shopify caps those at 3 active catalogs). You set the prices on the catalog once; Anmelda assigns it. Anmelda detects what your plan supports and picks the right strategy automatically, and tells you when the 3-catalog limit is reached.

In the EU — AWS Frankfurt (eu-central-1). Anmelda is built GDPR-first: Shopify's mandatory privacy webhooks, a per-shop retention window, and true deletion rather than anonymisation. Applicants who never became customers are fully erased once the retention window passes.

Three plans, billed through Shopify (prices in USD): Free — $0, 10 applications per month, all three registers (VIES, Zefix, Companies House), price hiding and the checkout lock, manual approval. Growth — $19/month, 100 applications, branded decision emails written in your own words. Pro — $39/month, unlimited applications, auto-approval rules and catalog assignment.

The form is a prebuilt B2B field library — company details, contact person, business address, VAT number, commercial register number, phone, website, expected volume and a message — deliberately not a generic form builder. In the theme editor you set the heading, intro text and button label, and the form ships in English, German, French and Italian. On paid plans, decision emails use your own templates. There are no file uploads and no conditional fields.

Yes. Anmelda ships a Sidekick app extension: ask Sidekick which wholesale applications are waiting for review, or the status and register verification of a specific applicant by company name or email. Approving and rejecting stay in Anmelda.

Applications past your plan's monthly cap are still received and stored — the applicant is told the store is not accepting applications at the moment, and nothing is verified until you upgrade. Upgrading releases them for verification, oldest first. The count resets on the 1st of the month (UTC).

Shopify bills app subscriptions in US dollars; the amounts above are what appears on your Shopify invoice.

Nothing changes. Anmelda only handles new applications submitted through the form or app proxy — your existing B2B companies and locations are untouched. There is no bulk import.