Could you please suggest what would be the best way to record VAT numbers of my clients. VAT number is company (client) specific and must be displayed together with other client information on my invoices:

Company Ltd.
Address
VAT No. 1324567

Should I add a field for this in Address Book? If so, can you suggest what field I should use?

VAT number should also be part of my company's Identity pref pane, though I could put all my company info in a picture together with the logo...

Thanks.

For your clients i'd recommend adding the client VAT number as an extra field in the project, This will allow you to add this to the invoices etc.

For your own VAT number,

either

add it to the last line of the identity (Billings -> Preference -> Identity)

or

add it as text to the invoices etc, you are using.

We also have an "official" way of showing VAT registration numbers or other tax registrations. The way to do this is to go to Billings Preferences, click on the Taxes pane, and to edit an individual tax. When you edit a VAT, such as VAT 17.5 for instance, you'll see a field for "registration number." If you put a number in there and save it, it will appear on invoices any time you use that tax.

Thanks for your suggestions. This solves the question about my company's Tax ID (VAT number), but it leaves the question of recording my clients' registration numbers open.

Clients' reg numbers should be recorded and displayed with other clients' information. Since Billings takes this information from AB, I think there should be a way to add an extra field in AB (ie. TAX ID) and then display this in Billings Invoices.

Mark suggested that I add an extra field in projects for my client' Tax IDs, which is a workaround. However, Tax IDs are CLIENT SPECIFIC and not project specific, therefore I think there should be a way to add Tax IDs to other Client information and have it diplayed automatically, eliminating the need to enter it over and over for each project I do for a client.

If there already is a way to do this in Billings, please explain.

I second this feature request. You seem to have a lot customers based in Europe and this feature is essential over here.

I've also noticed that several of the templates shipping with Billings do not show tax registration numbers, not sure if it's a bug or not.

I'm also hoping on the addition of tax numbers, becaus is't essential for billings.

The workaround by adding the tax number in the extra field, is fine, but how do I show in the invoices automaticly?

By adding a text field with: parent.parent.reportData.object.project.extraField1 the program adds the extra information line 1 in the invoice.
But in the client card, there's also a Extra Line 1.
What is the "code" to add this to the invoice, because it would solve the issue of adding tax numbers.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Bram,

To get to the extra field on the client, you need to add "client" to that keypath. So to get to extra1, do this:

parent.parent.reportData.object.project.client.extra1

Note: there is an inconsistency between project's extra fields and client's extra fields. In project, they are called "extraField1"[1 to 4] and on client it is "extra1"[1 to 4].

I should add that you can browse to the extra field. You don't have to type that keypath in manually.

Add a token, then for that token in the field browser, go to Report -> Object -> "Invoice's Project" -> "Project's Client" -> "Client's Extra Field 1".

Thanks for the advice! Works perfectly now!
I never found the extra field one with the field browser.