Multi-region, US cosmetology vs UK NHBF vs AU AHA licensure?

Different licensing regimes per country. Magento Multi-Source Inventory + per-store-view license verification rules handle this; the licensure data sources differ:

• US, state-by-state cosmetology / esthetician / barber boards (50 states + DC + territories). License number + name + state. Public board APIs in ~12 states, scrapable in ~20 more, manual queue for the rest.
• United Kingdom, NHBF (National Hair and Beauty Federation) membership is the de facto pro identifier (no government-issued license). Some salon-supply distributors verify via HABIA NVQ qualifications or City & Guilds certs. The verification is upload-cert-and-review rather than API lookup.
• Australia, AHA (Australian Hairdressing Association) membership + state-level training package qualifications (e.g. NSW Cert III in Hairdressing). Similar upload-cert workflow.
• Canada, province-by-province cosmetology board. Most provinces have searchable license registries (Ontario, BC, Alberta).
• EU, varies by member state; Germany has the strictest (Meisterbrief master cosmetologist requirement for certain professional sales).

Architecture: per-store-view license verification config. US store view fires state board APIs + manual queue. UK store view fires upload-NHBF / HABIA cert + manual review. AU store view fires upload-AHA / training-cert + manual review. Customer-group + trade-pricing logic stays identical across regions; only the verification mechanism differs.

Tax-exempt logic also forks per region, US has resale-cert per state, UK has VAT (different exemption rules for cosmetics resale), AU has GST. Each region needs its own tax-class + cert workflow. Significant scope add, budget 2-4 weeks per additional region.