Unable to validate VAT number - Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure

This article provides a patch for the issue where there is an error during VAT number verification.

Affected products and versions

All Adobe Commerce on-premises and Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure versions up to 2.3.6 (including 2.3.5-p1) were affected, including already released p1 and p2 versions. This includes:

• 2.3.5-p1
• 2.3.5
• 2.3.4 - 2.3.4-p2
• 2.3.3 - 2.3.3-p1
• 2.3.2 -2.3.2-p2
• 2.0.0 - 2.3.1

Issue

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Stores > Configuration > Customers > Customer Configuration > Create New Account Options and set Enable Automatic Assignment to Customer Group to Yes.
2. Go to General > Store Information > and set a valid Country and VAT Number.
3. Click on Validate VAT Number.

Expected result:

Validation is successful.

Actual result:

The following error is displayed: “Error during VAT Number verification.”

Solution

Apply the patch provided in this article.

Patch

The patch is attached to this article. To download it, scroll down to the end of the article and click the file name, or click the following link:

MDVA-27623_EE_2.3.2-p2_COMPOSER_v1.patch

How to apply the patch

See How to apply a composer patch provided by Adobe for instructions.

Attached Files