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# Italy

> What Coverbase asks a supplier in Italy for, and which of those rules block a submission.

[User guides](/user-guides/overview) / [Supplier countries](/user-guides/supplier-countries/overview)

A supplier whose bank account is held in Italy sees the fields below. The country is chosen on the form, and changing it changes the fields, so a supplier is never asked for a detail their country does not use.

## Bank details

| Field          | Requirement | Format                                            | Notes                                                             |
| -------------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Bank name      | Optional    | up to 60 characters                               |                                                                   |
| ABI            | Required    | up to 5 characters, digits only                   |                                                                   |
| CAB            | Required    | up to 5 characters, digits only                   |                                                                   |
| Account number | Required    | 12 characters, letters and digits                 |                                                                   |
| Check digit    | Optional    | 1 characters, letters only, CIN control character |                                                                   |
| SWIFT/BIC      | Optional    | 8 to 11 characters, letters and digits            | 8 or 11 characters, e.g. BOFAUS3N. Needed for a payment by wire.  |
| Account type   | Optional    | no length limit, one of: checking, savings        | Checking unless the bank issued the account as a savings account. |

### IBAN

An IBAN is required for Italy. It is 27 characters and is checked against the ISO 7064 MOD-97 algorithm, which catches a mistyped or transposed digit before the details reach your finance system.

## Tax and company registrations

| Registration | Requirement | Format                                              | Notes      |
| ------------ | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| Partita IVA  | Required    | 11 characters, digits only, Partita IVA check digit | 11 digits. |

After a registration is saved, Coverbase checks it against the EU VIES service in the background. That check never blocks the supplier: it annotates the record once it completes, and a reviewer can retry it.

## Where these rules come from

Oracle Fusion Cash Management 26c IT validations; ABI CIN table.

The rules on this page are confirmed against a primary source, so they are enforced strictly.

Configuration version `2026.09.1`. Your organization can override any of these rules for its own suppliers.

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