Adding a licence, certificate or personal code to your invoices
If your business has a number that belongs on your invoices and is not a company registration number, put it in Additional information. A licence number, an activity certificate or a personal identity code all go there, and whatever you type is printed on your invoices under your business details.
Adding it to your business
- Click your business name to open the menu, then click Business settings.
- On the Company profile tab, find the VAT & Registration section.
- Type the number into Additional information, using as many lines as you need.
- Click Save.
The text appears on your invoices and estimates under your business name and address, worded exactly as you typed it.
Adding it to a customer
Customers have the same field. Open the customer, click Edit, and fill in Additional information. You can also edit it from the Customer panel while writing an invoice, in which case it prints under the customer's details on the document.
What belongs in Registration number
Registration number is for the code your national business register issued, and nothing else. Sliptree checks it against the format used in your country, so a mistyped number is caught before it reaches an invoice.
Not every business has one. Someone trading as an individual in Lithuania has an activity certificate number and activity codes rather than a company code. For them Registration number stays empty, and both numbers go in Additional information. In Estonia, a person trading without a registry code can enter their personal identification code in Registration number instead.
If your number is refused
Two things usually explain it:
- A label was typed along with the number. Sliptree prints the label for you, using the name your country gives the number, so the number on its own is enough. When the number itself is valid, the form tells you what to enter.
- It is not a company registration number. Put it in Additional information, and leave Registration number empty.