The Irish business software dataset

Every record starts from a primary source. Companies House of Ireland (CRO) supplies legal entity data for Irish-headquartered vendors. Public supplier registers (Revenue, eTenders, Peppol Authority lists) seed the candidate set of vendors already trusted to operate inside Irish compliance perimeters. International vendors are added when they ship a documented Ireland-specific configuration.

Each record is then enriched with the compliance fields that decide whether the software is usable in Ireland. The dataset is re-verified weekly by a Perplexity sonar pass against live vendor pages and supplier registers, with a Claude Haiku fallback when the primary verifier is unavailable. The verification date is exposed on every vendor profile.

International software directories list a US-shaped catalogue and call it localised. Vendors.ie carries fields that only matter in Irish jurisdiction:

• Revenue and PAYE Modernisation integration status, vendor by vendor.
• SEPA Direct Debit and Irish IBAN handling, with AIB, Bank of Ireland, and Permanent TSB feed coverage.
• Peppol-ready flags aligned to Revenue eInvoicing rollout.
• Auto-Enrolment compliance posture against the NAERSA model (employer, employee, AE Administrator, AE Investment Manager mapping).
• GDPR data residency (EU vs US), RCT and Reverse Charge VAT for construction, and NACE industry codes.

These are the structured axes the dataset is organised around. They are why a vendor that looks identical to a US listing on G2 can be a clear-cut yes or no for an Irish buyer.

Editorial polish on Vendors.ie is the moat-defender, not the product. Each vendor record carries a named-editor Vendors.ie Verdict that reads the structured data and tells the buyer where the vendor fits and where it does not. Category guides explain the trade-offs inside each axis. Comparisons run head-to-head against the same fields. The named byline is on purpose. A dataset whose Verdicts are signed is a dataset whose calls a buyer can argue with.

Vendors cannot pay to change their compliance data, alter Verdicts, or influence AI recommendations. See the Transparency page for the full disclosure.