How to manage business and legal settings in Mews POS

Business & 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 & Legal section of Customer 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 & Legal settings
  • General tab
  • Legal & Certification tab
  • Fiskaly tab
  • France E-Reporting tab
  • Audit Log tab

How to access Business & Legal settings

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

The section has two main tabs: General and Legal & Certification. Additional tabs appear depending on your account configuration: Fiskaly (Spain only), France E-Reporting (select countries), and Audit Log (when enabled for your account).

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.
   • 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: Eneter 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 & 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 & Certification tab, enter the following details:
   • Tax number: Enter your registered tax number. 
   • VAT registered: Enable the slider switch if your business is VAT registered.

 

Belgian fiscal compliance

The following settings are available for Belgian merchants:

Setting	Description
Belgian FDM	Enables fiscalization compliance for Belgian merchants using the 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 date: 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 Log tab

The Audit Log records changes made to your Business & Legal settings. Each entry shows:

• What was changed
• Who made the change
• When the change was made

Use the date range filter to narrow results. The audit log is read-only.

The Audit Log tab is only visible when the Audit Log feature is enabled for your account, and only to users who have both the POS settings permission and the Audit permission. If you expect to see the tab but cannot, check your role permissions under Settings > Team & Permissions > Roles or contact Mews support to confirm the feature is enabled.

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.