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Update your billing address and VAT ID

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Martin Freiwald, Founder
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Billing details sit with your account, not with an event. Set the company name, address and VAT number there once and every future invoice carries them.

They take effect from the next purchase. An invoice already issued keeps what was on file when you paid.

Where the details sit

With your account, under billing — a different screen from your profile and a different one again from the event settings. All 3 feel like settings, which is why this particular detour is a common one.

Once set, they are stored and reused, so it is a job you do once rather than at every purchase.

  1. Open billing in your account settings. Not the event settings. This is account-level.
  2. Fill in company, address and VAT number. The VAT format is checked as you type.
  3. Then buy. The invoice is generated from what is on file at that moment.

When they take effect

From the next purchase onwards. An invoice already issued records what was true at the moment it was issued, and changing your details afterwards leaves it alone — deliberately, because a record that rewrites itself is a worse record.

So the useful order is: details first, purchase second. Reversing it costs an invoice you cannot correct.

The VAT number format

The field checks the shape as you type and refuses one that does not match, rather than storing something malformed and putting it on an invoice. The country prefix is part of it — a number entered without one will be rejected.

Whether a VAT number changes the tax treatment of your purchase is a question for your accountant, not for this page.

If you are buying privately

Leave the company fields empty. The invoice then carries your name and the amount, which is everything a private purchase needs. Nothing has to be requested separately and nothing is missing from it.

You can add business details later without affecting anything already bought.

They are reused automatically

The details are carried to the payment provider so future purchases pick them up without you retyping anything. That is what makes several events a year manageable rather than repetitive.

If you change company or address, update them once and the next invoice follows.

On a business account

Billing is a separate permission from the rest of the account. An owner can change these details, an administrator cannot, and there is a billing-only role for somebody who handles paperwork and should not be editing events.

That split is worth setting up before the first purchase rather than after.

Common questions

Where are the billing details?

In your account settings under billing — not in your profile and not in an event.

Will changing them fix an invoice I already have?

No. They apply from the next purchase onwards.

Why is my VAT number rejected?

The format is checked as you type. The country prefix is part of it.

Do I have to enter them for every event?

No. They are stored and reused for future purchases.

Can an administrator change them?

No. On a business account billing is the owner s permission, or a billing-only role.

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