Description
Italian shops need fiscal data to issue invoices (fattura elettronica). This plugin adds the fields to the WooCommerce checkout and asks for each one only when it applies:
- Customer type: individual or company.
- Codice Fiscale: individuals in Italy, checked with its control character.
- VAT number (Partita IVA): companies in the EU; Italian numbers are checked with their check digit.
- PEC and SDI recipient code: Italian companies. You choose whether one of the two is enough, or which ones are required.
- Company name: companies only.
Customers outside Italy are not asked for Italian data, and customers outside the EU are not asked for any tax number, so foreign orders are never blocked.
Features:
- Works with the classic checkout and with the Cart and Checkout blocks.
- Compatible with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS).
- Data shown on the admin order page (editable), in order emails, on the customer’s order page and in the My Account billing address.
- Data printed on invoices made with PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce.
- Admin order search by Codice Fiscale, VAT number, PEC and SDI code.
- Optional VIES check of EU VAT numbers (outside Italy): adds an order note, or refuses invalid numbers.
- Import tool: copies fiscal data saved by other plugins or snippets (for example Checkout Manager fields) into this plugin’s fields, for customers, orders and subscriptions. It never overwrites or deletes existing data.
- Privacy: fiscal data are included in WordPress personal data export and erasure.
- Settings in WooCommerce Settings Advanced Fiscal data.
- Translations: English included; Italian and other languages come from translate.wordpress.org.
External services
This plugin can connect to VIES (VAT Information Exchange System), a service of the European Commission, to check whether an EU VAT number is valid.
- When: only if the «VIES check» setting is enabled (it is off by default), when a company customer from an EU country other than Italy places an order.
- What is sent: the country code and the VAT number entered at checkout. Nothing else.
- Where: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/check-vat-number
- Results are cached on your site for one day.
Service provided by the European Commission: legal notice, privacy policy.
Installation
- Upload the plugin and activate it. WooCommerce must be active.
- Go to WooCommerce Fiscal data and choose which fields are required.
- Block checkout only: in the checkout page editor, turn off the WooCommerce «Company» field (in the shipping address block). This plugin asks for the company name itself, and only for companies.
- If fiscal data were collected before by another plugin or snippet, use WooCommerce Import fiscal data.
FAQ
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Why is the VAT number of an Italian company not checked on VIES?
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Many valid Italian VAT numbers are not registered in VIES: a company must opt in to intra-EU trade. Checking them would refuse legitimate customers, so Italian numbers are checked with their check digit only.
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What happens if VIES does not answer?
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The order always goes through and, if notes are enabled, the order note says the number could not be checked.
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Can I hide first and last name for companies?
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Yes in the classic checkout (an option in the settings). In the block checkout WooCommerce does not allow hiding its name fields conditionally, so they stay visible.
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Can I change the wording of the fields?
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Yes, translate the strings with a plugin such as Loco Translate.
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Contributors & Developers
“Deleteweb Dati Fiscali Italia for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
2.4.2
- Plugin renamed to “Deleteweb Dati Fiscali Italia for WooCommerce” (slug deleteweb-dati-fiscali-italia).
- Translations are now provided by translate.wordpress.org.
2.4.1
- First public release.
- Block checkout: «PEC or SDI» is checked when the order is placed, and labels always show the alternative.
- Block checkout: fiscal data are no longer shown twice on the admin order page.
- Settings saved by earlier versions are kept.