Quickstart

1. Create an account

Sign up at stawka.eu/login. You’ll get a personal organization automatically — that’s where your keys and billing live.

2. Mint an API key

In the dashboard, open your org’s Keys page and click Create key. The plaintext key is shown once; copy it now. Stawka stores only a SHA-256 hash, so a lost key cannot be recovered — revoke it and mint a new one.

Keys look like cp_live_<43 random characters>.

3. Make a request

curl https://api.stawka.eu/rates \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer cp_live_..."

You’ll get back the current VAT rates for all EU-27 countries:

{
  "version": "2026-05-27",
  "source": "European Commission TEDB",
  "rates": {
    "DE": {
      "country": "Germany",
      "currency": "EUR",
      "flag": "https://flagcdn.com/de.svg",
      "standard": 19,
      "reduced": [7],
      "super_reduced": null,
      "parking": null
    }
  }
}

4. What’s next

• The full list of endpoints lives under Endpoints in the sidebar.
• Authentication covers how the bearer-token flow works and how revocation propagates.
• Rate limits & quotas explains the per-plan caps your account is subject to.
• Errors is the canonical list of error codes.