If you have a problem completing the sign-up form and creating your payments profile, make sure that you 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 PO boxes as their business address.
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Use correct credit card formatting: our system accepts only 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.
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Use a legal business name that's not too long: our system allows business names up to 60 characters only.
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Use the correct format for Value Added Tax identification (VAT ID): our sign-up 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 eight 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Belgium
- Expected format: nine 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Denmark
- Expected format: eight digits
- Example: 12345678
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Use the correct format for Value Added Tax identification (VAT ID): our sign-up 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: eight 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 sign-up 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Germany
- Expected format: nine 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Greece
- Expected format: nine 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 sign-up 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Ireland
- Expected format: eight characters (six or seven digits followed by one or two letters) or seven digits followed by two 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 sign-up 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Luxembourg
- Expected format: eight 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Netherlands
- Expected format: nine 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Portugal
- Expected format: nine 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- Spain
- Expected format: nine 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 sign-up 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 sign-up form. Here's the VAT ID format for your location:
- United Kingdom
- Expected format: nine digits
- Example: 123 4567 89