Description
With EU VAT for WooCommerce Pro plugin you can collect and validate EU VAT numbers on WooCommerce checkout. Optionally you can automatically disable VAT (i.e. exempt) for valid numbers. Additionally, there is a tool to add all EU country VAT standard rates to WooCommerce.
Main plugin settings can be accessed from “WooCommerce > Settings > EU VAT”. EU country VAT rates tool is in “Tools > EU country VAT Rates”. VAT is validated through http://ec.europa.eu service.
Frontend Options
- Field label
- Label visible to the customer.
- Default:
EU VAT Number
- Default:
- Placeholder
- Placeholder visible to the customer.
- Default:
EU VAT Number
- Default:
- Description
- Description visible to the customer.
- Default: None
- Required
- Sets if EU VAT field is required on checkout.
- Default:
no
- Default:
- Confirmation notice
- Will add an additional confirmation notice on the checkout on empty VAT ID. For example you can enable this if EU VAT field is not required, but you still want to display a confirmation notice to the customer when no VAT ID was entered.
- Default:
no
- Default:
- Confirmation notice text
- “Confirmation notice” must be enabled.
- Default:
You didn't set your VAT ID. Are you sure you want to continue?
- Default:
- Priority (i.e. position)
- Sets EU VAT field’s position in the billing section of the checkout page. Here are the default fields priorities: First name – 10, Last name – 20, Company – 30, Country – 40, Address 1 – 50, Address 2 – 60, City – 70, State – 80, Postcode – 90, Phone – 100, Email – 110.
- Default:
200
- Default:
- Clear
- CSS clear option.
- Default:
yes
- Default:
- CSS class
- CSS class option. Possible values: Wide; First; Last.
- Default:
Wide
- Default:
- Label CSS class
- Label CSS class option.
- Default: None
- Always show zero VAT
- Will always show zero VAT amount in order review on checkout.
- Default:
no
- Default:
- Show field for selected countries only
- Ignored if empty (i.e. field is shown for all countries). Enter country codes as comma separated list, e.g. to show field for EU VAT countries only enter:
AT,BE,BG,CY,CZ,DE,DK,EE,ES,FI,FR,GB,GR,HU,HR,IE,IT,LT,LU,LV,MT,NL,PL,PT,RO,SE,SI,SK,MC,IM
- Default: None
Validation
- Validate
- Enabled/disables EU VAT validation.
- Default:
yes
- Default:
- Message on not valid. Replaced value:
%eu_vat_number% - Message will be displayed, when customer tries to checkout with invalid VAT number (“Validate” option must be enabled).
- Default:
<strong>EU VAT Number</strong> is not valid.
- Default:
- First validation method
- Change this if you are having issues when validating VAT. This only selects first method to try – if not succeeded, remaining methods will be used for validation. Possible values: SOAP; cURL; Simple.
- Default:
SOAP
- Default:
- Exempt VAT for valid numbers
- Enables/disabled VAT exemption.
- Default:
yes
- Default:
- Preserve VAT in selected countries
- This will validate the VAT, but won’t exempt VAT for selected countries. Country for “Base (i.e. store) country” option is set in “WooCommerce > Settings > General > Store Address”. Possible values: Base (i.e. store) country; Comma separated list; Disable.
- Default:
Disable
- Default:
- Preserve VAT in selected countries: Comma separated list
- Enter country codes as comma separated list, e.g.
IT,NL. Ignored unless “Comma separated list” option is selected above.- Default: None
- Check country by IP
- This will check if customer’s country (located by customer’s IP) matches the country in entered VAT number.
- Default:
no
- Default:
- Check for matching billing country code
- This will check if country code in VAT number matches billing country code.
- Default:
no
- Default:
- Allow VAT number input without country code
- This will allow customers to enter VAT number without leading country code letters and still get VAT validated. In this case country will be automatically retrieved from billing country input.
- Default:
no
- Default:
Progress Messages
- Add progress messages
- Enabled/disables progress messages on checkout.
- Default:
no
- Default:
- Validating
- Message when validation is in progress.
- Default:
Validating VAT. Please wait...
- Default:
- Valid
- Message on valid VAT.
- Default:
VAT is valid.
- Default:
- Not valid
- Message on invalid VAT.
- Default:
VAT is not valid.
- Default:
- Validation failed
- Message on VAT validation server timeout etc.
- Default:
Validation failed. Please try again.
- Default:
Display Options
- Display
- If empty – will display after order table. Possible values: After order table; In billing address.
- Default:
After order table
- Default:
- EU VAT number summary admin meta box
- Adds EU VAT number summary meta box to admin order edit page.
- Default:
no
- Default:
Advanced Options
- Session type
- Possible values: Standard PHP session; WC session.
- Default:
Standard PHP session
- Default:
- Skip VAT validation for selected countries
- List all countries you want VAT validation to be skipped for (i.e. VAT always valid). Ignored if empty. Enter country codes as comma separated list, e.g.
IT,NL.- Default: None
WPML/Polylang Compatibility
To translate field label, placeholder, description, all messages options etc. you can use [alg_wc_eu_vat_translate] shortcode by entering it directly in settings, e.g.:
[alg_wc_eu_vat_translate lang="DE,NL" lang_text="EU-Steuernummer" not_lang_text="EU VAT Number"]
or in more complex form:
[alg_wc_eu_vat_translate lang="DE"]EU-Steuernummer[/alg_wc_eu_vat_translate][alg_wc_eu_vat_translate lang="NL"]BTW nummer van de EU[/alg_wc_eu_vat_translate][alg_wc_eu_vat_translate not_lang="DE,NL"]EU VAT Number[/alg_wc_eu_vat_translate]
Developers
Field ID used for storing EU VAT is _billing_eu_vat_number. To retrieve saved EU VAT number from WooCommerce order in PHP, use this snippet:
if ( '' != ( $billing_eu_vat_number = get_post_meta( $order->get_id(), '_billing_eu_vat_number', true ) ) ) {
echo esc_html( $billing_eu_vat_number );
} To retrieve saved EU VAT number from WooCommerce customer meta in PHP, use the snippet below. Note that there is no underscore in field ID (differently from order meta):
if ( '' != ( $billing_eu_vat_number = get_user_meta( get_current_user_id(), 'billing_eu_vat_number', true ) ) ) {
echo esc_html( $billing_eu_vat_number );
} EU country VAT Rates Tool
| Country | VAT Rate |
|---|---|
| Austria (AT) | 20% |
| Belgium (BE) | 21% |
| Bulgaria (BG) | 20% |
| Cyprus (CY) | 19% |
| Czech Republic (CZ) | 21% |
| Germany (DE) | 19% |
| Denmark (DK) | 25% |
| Estonia (EE) | 20% |
| Spain (ES) | 21% |
| Finland (FI) | 24% |
| France (FR) | 20% |
| United Kingdom (UK) (GB) | 20% |
| Greece (GR) | 24% |
| Hungary (HU) | 27% |
| Croatia (HR) | 25% |
| Ireland (IE) | 23% |
| Italy (IT) | 22% |
| Lithuania (LT) | 21% |
| Luxembourg (LU) | 17% |
| Latvia (LV) | 21% |
| Malta (MT) | 18% |
| Netherlands (NL) | 21% |
| Poland (PL) | 23% |
| Portugal (PT) | 23% |
| Romania (RO) | 19% |
| Sweden (SE) | 25% |
| Slovenia (SI) | 22% |
| Slovakia (SK) | 20% |
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