How does this compares to EU VAT Assistant by Aelia?

Hi Marco,

Thank you for your interest. They are doing broadly the same thing. Diego is an excellent coder and we have often swapped ideas and thoughts (particularly at the start) – but we have each made our own decisions, so you will find some differences in how we have implemented different things. One that is more relevant currently is that I have gone a lot further in implementing features to help people trading in both the EU and UK, which was less important to Diego. If you find anything missing, please let me know.

David

On the other end, Aelia’s plugin does validate the NIF on VIES and only your paid version does that, am I correct?

Hi,

Yes, when I say “broadly the same thing”, I am really talking about our paid version. From the beginning we had a free/premium model to make it sustainable, and the premium version is the one suitable if you are VAT registered / more than a sole trader. The free version is suitable for sole traders with simple situations (and not VAT registered).

David

(Not sure what “NIF” stands for, but yes, only the paid version has integration with either VIES or HMRC’s number-checking services).

Sorry: “NIF” is “VAT number” in Portuguese.
My bad!

Hi again @davidanderson,

I have a few more questions about the paid version:

– Can we silently allow checkout even if the EU VAT number does not validate on VIES, for example for non-B2B customers? The same for UK VAT number?

– Can we always use the VAT number field, even for non-EU or UK countries, as an optional, non-validated, field?

In sum, what we need is:
– The field is always visible and saved to the user profile and order, not matter the customer country
– The field is validated for EU and UK and the correct exemptions are applied if it validates
– If the field does not validate for EU or UK, the exemption is not applied but the user can checkout without a problem/error
– Nice to have: make the field required ONLY for EU/UK

Hi Marco,

Good afternoon! Since your questions are mostly about the Premium version, to comply with www.ads-software.com’s forum preferences, after this reply you’ll need to continue this conversation using the support form at https://www.simbahosting.co.uk if you have any further questions (since www.ads-software.com want their forums to be used only for support of plugins released on www.ads-software.com).

> Can we silently allow checkout even if the EU VAT number does not validate on VIES, for example for non-B2B customers? The same for UK VAT number?

Yes, you can choose whether the number needs to be present, and if it needs to be validated.

> Can we always use the VAT number field, even for non-EU or UK countries, as an optional, non-validated, field?

Yes.

> In sum, what we need is:
> – The field is always visible and saved to the user profile and order, not matter the customer country
> – The field is validated for EU and UK and the correct exemptions are applied if it validates
> – If the field does not validate for EU or UK, the exemption is not applied but the user can checkout without a problem/error
> – Nice to have: make the field required ONLY for EU/UK

Yes, this is all possible.

David

OK, thanks. I will contact you on the website.