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Actively maintained Tested with WP 7.1 #1 in eu vat Freemium

EU/UK VAT Validation Manager for WooCommerce

Manage EU/ UK VAT in WooCommerce, validate VAT numbers real time with VIES, exempt or preserve VAT with various settings & cases.

Active installs7K+5K+ tier
Downloads · 30d5.6K▼ -49.9% vs prev. 30d
Rating4.8/538 reviews
Health score82/100Excellent
All-time downloads308.9KSince May 2018
Support resolved4 / 1136% in last 2 months
RequiresWP 6.1PHP any
Downloads · 7d1.2K▼ -62.3% week over week
Our verdict

Safe pick

Yes — EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 7K+ sites, is rated 4.8/5 and was last updated 2 weeks ago, and scores 82/100 on our health check.

  • Loved by users — 4.8/5 from 38 reviews
  • Actively developed — last update 2 weeks ago
  • Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
  • Slow support — only 36% of recent threads resolved

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

5131K1.5KJun 28Aug 11Sep 25
Yesterday160
Daily average (1y)210
Peak day2,053Jul 20, 2026
Last 12 months76.3K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where EU/UK VAT Validation Manage… stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
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eu vat #1 214 Best eu vat plugins →
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UK VAT #1 73 Best UK VAT plugins →
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Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 4.856.6%
  • 4.517.5%
  • 4.78.8%
  • 4.45.0%
  • Other12.1%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 from 38 reviews

  • 5★89.5%
  • 4★2.6%
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  • 2★5.3%
  • 1★0.00%

About EU/UK VAT Validation Manager for WooCom…

From the official readme · v4.8.1

Description

“Great Support: The plugin does exactly what it says and it have worked really well so far. I had a small issue but the developer released a new update the day after which fixed it. Can highly recommend!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ soccing

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Unlock Seamless B2B Transactions with the UK/EU VAT Manager

In the rapidly evolving eCommerce landscape, the ability to cater to both B2C and B2B customers has become essential for growth and scalability.

For store owners selling across the UK and EU, navigating the complexities of Value Added Tax (VAT) can be challenging.

B2B transactions within this region often need validation of VAT numbers to ensure legitimate business purchases, allowing sellers to exempt these buyers from VAT charges, where they report it to their local tax authorities.

With our EU/UK VAT Validation Manager for WooCommerce plugin, you can effortlessly validate UK/EU VAT numbers using VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) services, enabling you to sell to businesses in the EU without the additional tax burden.

This not only streamlines your checkout process but ensures compliance, boosting trust and confidence among your B2B clientele.

In a nutshell, here is what this plugin does:

  • Collect & Validate VAT numbers: Adds EU VAT field to checkout page to collect VAT numbers and validate in real time

  • Collect VAT on Signup: Add the EU VAT field to your WooCommerce signup form, entries will be automatically saved in customer data fields

  • Preserve (keep) or Exempt VAT: Based on tax laws, select to remove VAT for valid VAT numbers or keep it, per country

  • Custom Progress Messages: Customize & show messages during validation so customers are informed what’s happening behind while communicating with VIES

  • Set Field Requirement: Go beyond optional & required, the plugin allows you to make the field customization based on different cases (more details below)

  • Checkout Block-based Compatible: The plugin works seamlessly with the new block-based Checkout page

  • Add VAT Number to PDF Invoices: Compatibility with the renowned PDF Invoice & Packing Slips plugin, or any other plugin manually using field_id _billing_eu_vat_number

Important Note: Throughout this description, we use “EU VAT or VAT” to refer to both EU and UK VAT for simplicity and flow. All options and rules specified for the EU also apply to the UK.

🤝 Recommended By

🚀 Main Features: FREE Version

🚀 Collect & Validate EU & UK VAT Numbers

  • Add VAT field to checkout and/or signup forms to allow customers to enter their VAT numbers

  • In real time, check VAT numbers on VIES services to verify if they are valid

  • Validate VAT numbers using SOAP web service, with fallback methods like cURL & Simple

🚀 Decide to Deduct or Keep VAT For Valid Numbers

Once results return if VAT number is valid, you can select what VAT charges to apply:

  • Remove VAT completely (generally when selling for businesses outside store base country)

  • Preserve VAT for store base country

  • Preserve VAT in selected countries of your choice

  • Preserve VAT if shipping country is different from billing country

🚀 Checkout Block-based Compatible

With the recent updates to WooCommerce block-based checkout page, our plugin is now compatible with it, to ensure a seamless integration without the need to use classic editor or workarounds.

🚀 Control Field Visibility & Appearance

  • Customize field name to reflect the common name for VAT for your audience (like USt, TVA, IVA)

  • Customize field placeholder (text appearing inside the field)

  • Add description to the field so customers are informed on what to do

  • Control field position in checkout page in accordance to other fields

  • Customize & label field class for CSS

  • Compatible with checkout pages built using page builders by manually adding EU VAT through field_id _billing_eu_vat_number

🚀 Set Field To Multiple Required/Optional Cases

  • Select to make the field always required (if only selling B2B for example)

  • Make field completely optional for all customers

  • Make field required in selected countries only (and optional in the rest)

  • Likewise, make field optional in some countries (and required in the rest)

  • Select the field to be required ONLY if customer filled “Company” field

  • Warn users when field is set to optional by showing customized notification text message

  • For Belgium TVA Compatibility: Allow customer to select if they are individual or business, making the option required or optional based on selection

🚀 More Options to Validate/Invalidate VAT by Countries & User Roles

  • Always exempt VAT for selected user roles only

  • Always charge VAT for selected user roles only

  • Skip VAT validation for selected countries

  • Invalidate VAT checking and reserve VAT if country code in VAT number isn’t matching billing country code

🚀 Keep Customers Informed with Progress Messages

  • Enhance checkout experience by showing custom messages related to VAT validation

  • Select to show messages on different cases:

  1. Validating: While communicating with VIES services
  2. Valid: When results return Valid
  3. Invalid: When results return Invalid
  4. Validation failed: When communicating with VIES failed for technical reasons
  5. When customer select different billing & shipping countries (if that option is enabled)
  6. When customer uses a wrong company name (if that option is enabled “Pro option”)
  • Control all messages with CSS: All messages have their own CSS classes to customize them along with your brand colors & guidelines

🚀 EU VAT Management for Admin

  • Add an EU VAT number summary meta box to admin order edit page

  • Add an EU VAT number column to admin orders list

  • Debug & logging options to monitor all validation events

🚀 VAT Reporting

With this feature, you can view a detailed breakdown of sales by each EU country, clearly highlighting total tax amount and transactions where zero tax was applied due to valid VAT number validation, offering clarity on your B2B transactions, ensuring transparency and aiding in compliance.

🚀 More Advanced Options

  • Import all standard EU Tax rates with a 1-click importer using our tool, accessible on WordPress Tools >> EU Country VAT Rates

  • If your customers are used to provide their VAT numbers without preceding country code, you can tolerate this and treat both numbers the same with a seamless experience for your customers.

  • PDF Invoice & Packing Slips compatibility: VAT number will be inserted to PDF invoices generated by PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce plugin

  • For other invoicing plugins, you can also add VAT number to invoice by field_id _billing_eu_vat_number

  • Multi-Language Support: Plugin is WPML & Polylang compatible, you can use shortcodes to show different languages messages

  • Seamless validation & update Checkout page in real time using AJAX (without refreshing the page)

“Best plugin for EU VAT: I was using another plugin that is not supported anymore. Then I found EU/UK VAT Manager for WooCommerce, and really, I’m very happy the other plugin is not supported anymore, not because it was not a good plugin, on the contrary, it was. But in another case probably I didn’t find this amazing plugin, that is even a lot better. EU/UK VAT Manager for WooCommerce is the best plugin to manage the EU VAT. I love the VAT check that is made via Ajax in the background when you are in the checkout. Really kudos for this amazing plugin!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jose

“Perfect PLUGIN & Service: I was looking for a plugin for a european based b2b shop which will deduct the VAT from other eu countries. Found this plugin, installed it and it worked perfectly! The VAT was deducted on point and i was very happy. But then i noticed that orders from the same country will also deduct the VAT which I thought was not possible. I contacted Omar and he replied that this new feature will be released soon. Today he messaged me to update the plugin and i did! And guess what, now it works exactly as i needed it! Thanks a lot for this plugin and service!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ khang1985

🏆 Do More: PRO Version

All the features mentioned above, and many more, are available in the free version. But if you’re looking to take things up a notch, consider our enhanced EU/UK VAT Validation Manager for WooCommerce Pro plugin.

Upgrade to the Pro version and unlock additional more features, including:

🏆 Show Specific Payment Method Only for Valid VAT

If you’re selling to businesses and wish to offer them specific payment gateways (such as cheques), you can hide that payment option unless a valid VAT number is provided at checkout.

🏆 Show/Hide EU VAT Field by Country & User Role

  • Choose the countries where the VAT field should be displayed (Use case example: Hide it for sales within the store’s base country, as VAT will always be charged to these customers)

  • Show field for selected user roles only

🏆 More Advanced Pro Options

  • Country Match: Check if customer’s country (located by customer’s IP) matches the country used in VAT number

  • Company Name Matching: Check if company name matches the VAT number, and show custom message if not

  • Local VAT numbers Handling: Allow checkout in countries with local VAT numbers which can’t be validated (not part of VIES)

  • Premium Support

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❤️ User Testimonials: See What Others Are Saying!

“Great plugin. We had a small problem and after contact we received the solution very fast. It works 100% now, thanks!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ niek rijt

“The plugin works great, and does everything I need for selling to other countries in Europe! Support is great and they help develop new features to make the plugin even more compliant with the laws.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Vincent Bus

“It is great! And support is very helpful even with free version. 5 stars!” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Vera

“Great support!: The plugin works great, and does everything I need for selling to other countries in Europe! Support is great and they help develop new features to make the plugin even more compliant with the laws.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ kingwebshops

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Installation

Follow these simplified steps to get your plugin up and running:

From the WordPress Admin Panel:
1. Navigate to “Plugins” > “Add New”.
2. Use the search bar and find the plugin using the exact name.
3. Click “Install Now” for the desired plugin.
4. Once the installation is finished, click “Activate”.

Manual Installation Using FTP:
1. Download the desired plugin from WordPress.org.
2. Using your preferred FTP client, upload the entire plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation.
3. Go to “Plugins” > “Installed Plugins” in your dashboard and click “Activate”.

Manual download & upload from the WordPress Admin Panel:
1. Download the desired plugin in a ZIP format.
2. On your site, navigate to “Plugins” > “Add New” and click the “Upload Plugin” button.
3. Choose the downloaded plugin file and click “Install Now”.
4. After the installation is complete, click “Activate”.

Post-Activation:
Once activated, access the plugin’s settings by navigating to the “WPFactory” menu and look for the relevant tab.1. Upload the entire plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
3. Start by visiting plugin settings at “WPFactory > EU VAT”.

Frequently asked questions

Source Code

The complete source code and build tools for this plugin are available at: https://github.com/wpcodefactory/eu-vat-for-woocommerce The source files used to generate the compiled assets are located in: JavaScript source files: assets/js/ CSS source files: assets/css/ Checkout block source files: includes/blocks/src/ Compiled production assets are located in: assets/build/ includes/blocks/build/

Build & Development

The JavaScript and CSS files in the assets/build/ directory are generated from the source files in assets/js/ and assets/css/ using WordPress Scripts and Webpack. The Checkout block assets in includes/blocks/build/ are generated from includes/blocks/src/ using WordPress Scripts and Webpack. Build Tools: Node.js and npm @wordpress/scripts Webpack Building the plugin from source: Install dependencies: npm install Build production assets: npm run build Watch for development changes: npm start Build checkout block assets (from includes/blocks/): cd includes/blocks && npm install && npm run build

External Services

This plugin connects to external services to validate VAT numbers. Validation requests are only made when a VAT number is checked through the plugin’s features, for example during checkout, signup/account validation, admin order validation, or manual validation actions. European Commission VIES (VAT Information Exchange System) This service is used to validate EU VAT numbers. Depending on your plugin settings and server capabilities, the plugin may connect to the VIES REST API and/or the VIES SOAP service. API domain and endpoints used by the plugin: ec.europa.eu REST API…

Changelog

This is the first release of the plugin.

4.8.1 – 14/09/2026

  • Fix – Fixed VAT removal when shipping country is not posted.
  • Dev – Improved VAT meta box compatibility with legacy orders and HPOS.
  • Dev – WPFactory Cross-Selling – Library updated (to v1.1.5).
  • Dev – WPFactory Key Manager – Library updated (to v1.1.1).
  • Tested up to: 7.1.
  • WC tested up to: 11.1.

4.8.0 – 18/08/2026

  • Fix – Fixed “Remove VAT for validated numbers” validation.
  • Fix – Fixed conditional required VAT field validation.
  • Dev – Added a 10s connection timeout to the SOAP client (and wpfactory_wc_eu_vat_soap_connection_timeout filter).
  • WC tested up to: 11.0.

4.7.9 – 03/08/2026

  • Fix – Fixed VAT validation on WooCommerce signup and edit billing forms.
  • Dev – WPFactory Admin Menu – Library updated (to v1.1.2).

4.7.8 – 29/07/2026

  • Fix – Fixed validation for 0 VAT numbers during checkout.
  • Fix – Improved VAT validation logic for country matching and VIES fallback.

4.7.7 – 26/07/2026

  • Fix – Fixed validation for optional VAT numbers when left empty.
  • Fix – Fixed a PHP warning during VAT validation.

4.7.6 – 24/07/2026

  • Fix – Prevent checkout with invalid VAT number 0.

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

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FAQ

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Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 26, 2026

Is EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… free?

Yes. EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory. The developer also sells premium add-ons or a Pro version with extra features.

Is EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… safe to use in 2026?

Yes — EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 7K+ sites, is rated 4.8/5 and was last updated 2 weeks ago, and scores 82/100 on our health check.

How many websites use EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo…?

EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… is active on 7K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 308,891 times since it launched in May 2018. It was downloaded 5,622 times in the last 30 days.

Does EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… work with WordPress 7.1?

Yes. The developer has tested EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… up to WordPress 7.1.2, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.1 or newer.

When was EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… last updated?

The latest version, 4.8.1, was released on September 14, 2026 (2 weeks ago).

Who makes EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo…?

EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… is developed and maintained by WPFactory.

What are the best alternatives to EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo…?

The most popular alternatives to EU/UK VAT Validation Manager fo… are European VAT Compliance Ass… (3K+ installs), Connect WooCommerce Shop to… (900+ installs) and Teamwant VIES VAT for WooCo… (100+ installs).

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