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EU VAT Enhanced (M1)

Ocasionally some orders have VAT calculated but customer has a VAT number provided
Error message: There was an error processing your request
Adding the VAT number input field to registration and checkout
Compatibility with Magestore Onestepcheckout
Compatibility with OneStepCheckout (the original)
Import of tax rates fails with error "Invalid file upload attempt"
Using the address based VAT number field
Compatibility with Ebizmarts_SagePay
Compatibility with AdvancedCheckout

Ocasionally some orders have VAT calculated but customer has a VAT number provided

Released: 29 Oct 2018 Updated: 12 Jul 2023

This can happen for several reasons. Please check: Is there any information about the validation details visible in the order comments? The module will let Magento calculate VAT when any of the marked results are invalid or wrong: Is the country prefix of the VAT number present at th...

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Error message: There was an error processing your request

Released: 15 Nov 2014 Updated: 12 Jul 2023

If you get an error message like "There was an error processing your request..." it may be that your server is using IPv6 to connect to the EU VIES, which does not support IPv6 properly. Please have a look in your system configuration of our module and set the "IPv6 compatibility mode" to "On"...

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Adding the VAT number input field to registration and checkout

Released: 15 Jun 2015 Updated: 12 Jul 2023

Please check if you have enabled this config setting at System->Configuration->Customer Configuration (Show VAT Number on Frontend) If this is already the case, it might be that the used template does not support the field. You can add it with the following code to your template files: ...

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Compatibility with Magestore Onestepcheckout

Released: 12 Dec 2016 Updated: 12 Jul 2023

To make EU VAT Enhanced compatible and fully working with Magestore Onestepcheckout, there are some actions to be done necessarily. Please follow these steps: 1. Change the field IDs of the VAT number inputs at checkout Use app/design/frontend/base/default/template/onestepcheckout/onestepc...

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Compatibility with OneStepCheckout (the original)

Released: 13 Dec 2016 Updated: 12 Jul 2023

Update 2019-05-10: This fix is now included in the latest version of OneStepCheckout. In order to make the Idev OneStepCheckout fully compatible, you need to change one line of the Idev code. Please open the file app/code/local/Idev/OneStepCheckout/Model/Observers/PresetDefaults.php and within ...

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Import of tax rates fails with error "Invalid file upload attempt"

Released: 21 Mar 2017 Updated: 12 Jul 2023

In this case the uploaded CSV file headers are not matching the store-views of the Magento installation. To fix this, follow these steps: Open your base import file in a text editor Navigate to “Sales → Tax → Import/Export Tax Rates” and click on [Export Tax Rates] and save the file o...

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Using the address based VAT number field

Released: 10 Jul 2017 Updated: 12 Jul 2023

Magento has two possible Tax/VAT number fields. The first one is the "Tax/VAT, code:taxvat" field, assigned to the customer entity. The field name is a bit misleading, as it is intended to be used as a "Tax Number" field only. Many countries provide a unique personal tax number, which can be save...

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Compatibility with Ebizmarts_SagePay

Released: 5 Oct 2017 Updated: 12 Jul 2023

Under circumstances it can happen that orders processed through Ebizmarts_SagePay module will have VAT calculated again in the backend view of the order, after the order was placed without VAT. For a workaround, you need to update at least to version 1.7.6.2 of our VAT extension for Magento 1. ...

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Compatibility with AdvancedCheckout

Released: 17 Jan 2018 Updated: 12 Jul 2023

The following is tested with version 2.8.0 of AdvancedCheckout. To get a proper working VAT validation and calculation when using the AdvancedCheckout, please apply the following changes: Change the file app/code/community/Advanced/Onestepcheckout/etc/config.xml: Comment out the rewrites of ...

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