If you have a problem completing the signup form and creating your payments profile, make sure that you have followed the guidelines below:
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Sign up from a supported country: Depending on the Google product, we may not support your country for merchant payments yet. Learn more about countries that we support for merchant and developer registration.
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Use a physical business address: Currently, Google only lets merchants use a physical address in their payments profile. We don't allow merchants to use P.O. boxes as their business address.
- Use correct credit card formatting: Our system only accepts a–z, A–Z and 0–9 as inputs for the credit card statement name. If you use other characters or languages, you'll see an error.
- Use a legal business name that's not too long: Our system only allows business names of up to 60 characters.
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): Our signup form requires your VAT ID to be entered in your country's specific format. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Austria
- Expected format: Letter 'U' followed by 8 digits
- Example: U12345678
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Belgium
- Expected format: 9 or 10 digits (10 digits begin with 0)
- Example: 123456789 or 0123456789
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Denmark
- Expected format: 8 digits
- Example: 12345678
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): Our signup form requires your VAT ID to be entered in your country's specific format. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Finland
- Expected format: 8 digits
- Example: 12 34 56 78
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- France
- N/A
- N/A
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Germany
- Expected format: 9 digits
- Example: 123456789
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Greece
- Expected format: 9 digits starting with 0
- Example: 012345678
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Croatia
- Expected format: 11 digits
- Example: 12345678910
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Ireland
- Expected format: 8 characters (6 or 7 digits followed by 1 or 2 letters) or 7 digits followed by 2 letters
- Example: 1234567X, 123456XY or 1234567MH
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Italy
- Expected format: 11 digits
- Example: 12345678910
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Luxembourg
- Expected format: 8 digits
- Example: 12345678
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Netherlands
- Expected format: 9 digits followed by suffix in the range of B01–B99
- Example: 123 456 789 B01
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Portugal
- Expected format: 9 digits
- Example: 123456789
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Spain
- Expected format: 9 characters with first alphabetic, last alphabetic or first and last alphabetic characters
- Example: X12345678, 12345678X or X1234567X
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Sweden
- Expected format: 12 digits ending in 01
- Example: 123456789701
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Use the correct format for value-added tax identification (VAT ID): You're required to enter your VAT ID in your country's specific format on our signup form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- United Kingdom
- Expected format: 9 digits
- Example: 123 4567 89