# Octobat Blog

## Octobat Blog

- [Octobat official blog](https://blog.octobat.com/master.md)
- [Our mission](https://blog.octobat.com/our-mission.md): empower online stores with an automatic, smart, and compliant billing system.
- [Create a payment link with Beanie](https://blog.octobat.com/create-a-payment-link.md): Discover Beanie links -  a secured solution to create payment links without any technical knowledge. Share it on your favorite social media or send it to your customers via SMS, Whatsapp, email...
- [Product](https://blog.octobat.com/product.md): Here are the articles in this section:
- [🇮🇪 Ireland cuts VAT rate from 23% to 21%](https://blog.octobat.com/product/ireland-cuts-vat-rate-from-23-to-21.md): Due to the COVID-19 crisis, Ireland announced that the domestic VAT rate will be cut from 23 to 21 percent from September 1, 2020 to February 28, 2021. Learn how Octobat is handling this update.
- [🇩🇪 Germany cuts VAT from 19% to 16%](https://blog.octobat.com/product/germany-vat-rate-cuts-july-1.md): Due to the COVID-19 crisis, Germany announced that VAT will be cut from 19 to 16 percent from July 1 to December 31 this year. Learn how Octobat is handling this update.
- [EU VAT rules and updates](https://blog.octobat.com/eu-vat-rules-and-updates.md)
- [🇪🇺 New VAT rules - The one-stop shop (OSS)](https://blog.octobat.com/eu-vat-rules-and-updates/new-vat-rules-the-one-stop-shop-oss.md)
- [🇪🇺 The EU Intra-community VAT 'reverse charge' mechanism](https://blog.octobat.com/eu-vat-rules-and-updates/the-eu-intra-community-vat-reverse-charge-mechanism.md): Generally, VAT is collected from customers by vendors for remittance. Sometimes it is the customer himself who returns the VAT to the tax authorities: this is the 'reverse charge' principle.
- [Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is here](https://blog.octobat.com/eu-vat-rules-and-updates/strong-customer-authentication-sca-is-here.md): #Strong Customer Authentication, #SCA, #compliance, #payments, #conversion, #checkout, #Beanie, #PSD2, #DSP2, #regulation, #3Dsecure