How to manage business and legal settings in Mews POS

Business and legal settings in Mews POS let you configure the foundational details that identify your business to the tax authority, appear on customer receipts and invoices, and support the fiscal compliance rules that apply in your country. As an admin user, you use the Business and legal section of Settings to maintain your business information, tax registration details, legal identifiers, and compliance certificates. You do this whenever any of these details change, or when your account is first being set up, from Mews POS. This keeps your business and legal records accurate and your account compliant with the fiscal rules in your country.

In this article, you can learn about:

• How to access Business and legal settings
  • General tab
  • Legal and certification tab
  • Fiskaly tab
  • France E-Reporting tab
  • Audit logs tab

How to access Business and legal settings

1. In Mews POS, go to the main menu > Settings.
2. Click Business and legal.

The section has three tabs: General, Legal and certification and Audit logs. Additional tabs appear depending on your account configuration: Fiskaly (Spain only) and France E-Reporting (select countries).

General tab

Use this tab to update the core details of your business, fill in the following details:

1. Under Business information, enter the following details:
   • Business name: Enter the name shown on receipts, invoices, and reports.
   • Business owner: The primary contact or responsible person for this account, this must be an Admin user.
2. Under Contact and location, enter the following details:
   • Phone number (Business): Enter your business contact number, including the country code.
   • Address: Enter the street address of your business location.
   • Postal code: Enter your ZIP or postal code. Format validation applies for some countries, for example, Portugal.
   • City: Enter your city, the system may automatically fill this in based on your postal code in supported areas.
   • Country: Enter the country where your business operates. Note: You cannot change the country after the initial setup.
   • Language: Enter the language you use in Mews POS.
   • Time zone: Enter the time zone you use for order and report timestamps.
3. Click Save to apply your changes.

Legal and certification tab

Use this tab to manage your tax registration details, fiscal compliance settings, country-specific legal identifiers, and compliance certificates.

1. In the Legal and certification tab, enter the following details:
   • Tax number (Optional): Enter your registered tax number.
   • VAT registered: Enable the slider switch if your business is registered for value-added tax, or VAT.

Belgian fiscal compliance

The following settings are available for Belgian merchants:

Setting	Description
Belgian FDM	Enables fiscalization compliance for Belgian merchants using the fiscal data module, or FDM, standard.
Belgian FDM v2	Enables the updated FDM v2 fiscalization standard.

When either FDM toggle is enabled, Company registration number becomes a required field.

Legal identifiers

The following fields appear depending on your country:

Field	Country	Description
UK SIC code	United Kingdom	Standard Industrial Classification code for your business.
SIREN	France	9-digit French company identification number.
SIRET	France	14-digit French business ID (SIREN + location suffix).

Certificate

For merchants in Slovenia and Croatia, a compliance certificate is required for fiscal reporting. This section shows:

• Subject: the entity the certificate belongs to (read-only)
• Issuer: the certificate authority (read-only)
• Expiry: when the certificate expires (read-only)

Contact Mews support to upload or renew your certificate.

Fiskaly tab

This tab appears for merchants in Spain who have Fiskaly fiscal reporting configured on their account. Use it to manage your Fiskaly organization representative details, including address and tax number.

France E-Reporting tab

This tab appears for merchants in France and other eligible countries where France e-reporting fiscalization is enabled on the account. Use it to manage your France e-reporting registration and related attachments.

Audit logs tab

The Audit logs tab records changes made to your Business and legal settings. Use the filters at the top of the tab to narrow the results by date range, users, events and item types. The table shows the following columns:

• Date: when the change was made
• User: who made the change
• Event: what kind of change it was
• Item: what the change applies to
• Changes: what was changed

The audit logs are read-only.

The Audit logs tab is only visible to users who have the Can view audit log permission. If you expect to see the tab but cannot, check your role permissions under Settings > Team and permissions > Roles or contact Mews support.

You can now manage your business information, tax registration details, legal identifiers, and compliance certificates in Mews POS, and track the history of changes made to your account.