VAT4EU Support Thread

This is the support thread for the forthcoming ***VAT4EU ***(VAT for EU Countries) plugin, a re-design of the VAT mod for European Companies that supports Zen Cart 1.5.5 and later.

***VAT4EU ***reduces (but does not remove) the core-file/template-file changes required for its operation, injecting Zen Cart "notifiers" to allow its processing to integrate into your installation without carving those files up! It also makes use of the VIES service for automatic VAT number validation.

A beta version is available on the plugin's GitHub repository for anyone who wants to give it a try before I submit the plugin to the Zen Cart Plugins over the next few days.

Just to clarify, this mod allows customers (ie. usually companies) that have a VAT number registered with the EU as valid for inter-community commercial purchases, to purchase ex-VAT?
Next step for making ZC B2B-friendly would be customer discount pricing per customer/product/manufacturer...

torvista:

Just to clarify, this mod allows customers (ie. usually companies) that have a VAT number registered with the EU as valid for inter-community commercial purchases, to purchase ex-VAT?
Next step for making ZC B2B-friendly would be customer discount pricing per customer/product/manufacturer...
@torvista, what you said as clarification is what the plugin does.

I've just submitted v1.0.0 of *VAT4EU *to the Zen Cart plugins for review; once approved, it can be downloaded from https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2164.

This plugin, a rewrite of the VAT for European Companies mod supports Zen Cart 1.5.5a and later. The plugin has been designed to use the Zen Cart "notification" system where possible, to reduce the number of core and/or template-override file changes required!

Once installed, configured and enabled the plugin gathers a "VAT number" from your store's business customers and displays that value on any associated orders' confirmation emails, invoices and packingslips. When the customer's VAT number has been validated, *VAT4EU *provides "VAT Refund" processing for orders shipped to another country.

The plugin can be configured to automatically validate a customers VAT entry, using the VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) interface or a store admin can override a customer's VAT in case their registration is new or the VIES servers are down.

See the plugin's readme for additional information.

I think this mod will go a long way to addressing the lack of a tax id field in the core code, something mentioned previously:
https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?222637-Customer-Tax-ID

lat9:

I've just submitted v1.0.0 of *VAT4EU *to the Zen Cart plugins for review; once approved, it can be downloaded from https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2164.

This plugin, a rewrite of the VAT for European Companies mod supports Zen Cart 1.5.5a and later. The plugin has been designed to use the Zen Cart "notification" system where possible, to reduce the number of core and/or template-override file changes required!

Once installed, configured and enabled the plugin gathers a "VAT number" from your store's business customers and displays that value on any associated orders' confirmation emails, invoices and packingslips. When the customer's VAT number has been validated, *VAT4EU *provides "VAT Refund" processing for orders shipped to another country.

The plugin can be configured to automatically validate a customers VAT entry, using the VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) interface or a store admin can override a customer's VAT in case their registration is new or the VIES servers are down.

See the plugin's readme for additional information.
Now available for download from the Zen Cart plugins ...

I've just submitted v1.0.1 to the Zen Cart plugins; once it's approved, I'll post back here.

     This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issues (<https://github.com/lat9/vat4eu%29:>

#1: PHP error generated when web-service returns error
#2: Shipping/billing address additions don't "stick".

v1.0.1 is now available for download from the Zen Cart plugins.

Any changes needed for 1.5.6?

Wayne

micromouse:

Any changes needed for 1.5.6?

Wayne
You'll need to review the core- and template-file changes as I'm sure they've changed for v1.5.6, but the changes required by the plugin are few and well-marked.

unfortunately the changes between the plugin and and 1.5.6 are extensive, and my understanding of zencart does not cover a lot of the new functions such as the use of notifiers etc. In addition a number of the functions (includes/functions/functions_customers) seems to be based on 1.5.1 core and the changes to the new 1.5.6 are extensive.

your_admin/customers.php for instance seems to be fully incorporated, with other files functionality moving completely - Your_Admin/includes/functions/functions_customers.php has now been moved to the catalogue side (according to the file)

I think I'll wait for someone more experienced to fix the changes for 1.5.6, although I'm quite willing to donate to the coffee/beer fund to help implement this

Wayne

micromouse:

unfortunately the changes between the plugin and and 1.5.6 are extensive, and my understanding of zencart does not cover a lot of the new functions such as the use of notifiers etc. In addition a number of the functions (includes/functions/functions_customers) seems to be based on 1.5.1 core and the changes to the new 1.5.6 are extensive.

your_admin/customers.php for instance seems to be fully incorporated, with other files functionality moving completely - Your_Admin/includes/functions/functions_customers.php has now been moved to the catalogue side (according to the file)

I think I'll wait for someone more experienced to fix the changes for 1.5.6, although I'm quite willing to donate to the coffee/beer fund to help implement this

Wayne
Wayne, I've opened an issue on the plugin's GitHub repository to track a zc1.5.6 update.

lat9:

Wayne, I've opened an issue on the plugin's GitHub repository to track a zc1.5.6 update.
There's good news and not-so-good news; the *majority *of the notifications used by VAT4EU have been included in zc156, but there are some still missing.:(

I've submitted a change request to get them incorporated in zc156b and later and should have an updated version for zc156 and later only available later in a couple of days.

I've just submitted v2.0.0 of ***VAT4EU ***to the Zen Cart plugins for review. This version drops support for Zen Cart versions prior to 1.5.6.

If your store uses Zen Cart 1.5.5a-f, please continue to use v1.0.1 of VAT4EU.

lat9:

I've just submitted v2.0.0 of ***VAT4EU ***to the Zen Cart plugins for review. This version drops support for Zen Cart versions prior to 1.5.6.

If your store uses Zen Cart 1.5.5a-f, please continue to use v1.0.1 of VAT4EU.
VAT4EU, v2.0.0, is now available for download: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2164

Excellent, I will try an install tomorrow....many many thanks in advance

Wayne

Hi

I'm not sure if this is an issue with either this plugin or my general tax settings, so apologies if this is the wrong forum.

I have an issue with my web setup. basically our shop is based in the UK but ships to the EU. We use VAT 4 EU to remove the VAT surcharge with a valid tax number. But someone purchased a product a couple of days ago and VAT wasn't charged at all.

My basis of product Tax is Shipping

I have tax set up at 20% for both UK and the countries we serve ( Netherlands, Belgium and France) . This has worked in the past.

Please I appreciate any help/advice given.

Debbie, is this a new setup? You indicated that your tax setup has "worked in the past", so what's changed?

Any debug-logs written to the /logs directory on/around the time of the order?

Hi lat9

The website is a couple of years old but only recently has it been set up for the Netherlands, etc.

Before it was just a UK based website.

I didn't have debug on as it was working before. But now its not.

I hope this gives some insight

From which country did you receive the purchase that didn't charge VAT?