Company details
Updated on 2026-08-29
This chapter is not for a hair salon. It describes the Company details screen in the platform panel: the details of the business that sells HairConnect, as they appear on our own working copy of an invoice.
These details do not block invoicing. They did when HairConnect issued its own invoices. Since they are issued by the invoicing service, it is its identity that appears on the fiscal record. What does block is the salon's billing details — see the chapter The invoicing service.
Why these fields are empty
They have never been filled in, and that is not an oversight.
The name, address, VAT number and bank account of a real business are not values software can know. An invented VAT number on an invoice is a fiscal document with a lie in it — and that is worse than an empty box. In this project an invented address once appeared on the booking page; since then the rule is that a field whose value we do not know stays empty.
So the software does not fill them in, not even "as an example". Someone has to type them here.
What you have to fill in
These seven fields should be filled in. They appear on our own working copy of every invoice.
| Field | What belongs there |
|---|---|
| Company name | The legal name, as registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises. |
| Street and number | The registered office address. |
| Postcode | |
| Town | |
| Country | Two-letter country code. This software calculates with Belgian VAT. |
| VAT number | In the form BE0123.456.789. |
| IBAN | The account the salons pay into. |
These are optional:
| Field | What for |
|---|---|
| BIC | Only needed for a payment from outside the SEPA zone. |
| Payment term in days | Determines the due date: invoice date plus this number of days. Default 14. |
| E-mail address and phone | Where a salon can go with a question about its invoice. |
| Footer | Appears at the bottom of every invoice, for instance a reference to the terms and conditions. |
The VAT number is checked
The screen validates the number with the modulo 97 check and rejects a number that does not add up. A VAT number with a typo is worse than no VAT number at all: it sits unnoticed on every document until your accountant calls.
The number is stored in normalised form (BE0123456789), so that the same form appears on every invoice regardless of how you type it.
The notice at the top
At the top of this screen there is a notice as long as something is missing, naming the empty fields.
That notice does not stop you: invoicing carries on, because the issued document comes from the invoicing service and carries its details. What is missing here is missing on our own working copy.
What does block invoicing sits with the salon: without the salon's name, address, country and VAT number, nothing is recorded.
These details do not live with a salon
A salon's settings are strictly bound to that salon: there is no "global" setting in HairConnect, precisely because such a row leaks between salons.
HairConnect's company details are not salon data. They are therefore kept in their own store that is by definition not tied to a salon. An owner can neither read nor overwrite them.
Historical invoices do not change along
When an invoice is recorded, these details are copied into it. If HairConnect moves later, or the account number changes, last year's invoice still shows the address and the account that were on it then.
That is the intention. An archive rewritten with every move is not an archive.