GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooCommerce – Peppol invoices, credit notes, delivery status
Peppol e-invoicing for WooCommerce from a certified Access Point: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Oman. Credit notes included.
Solid choice
GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. Was last updated 6 days ago, and scores 64/100 on our health check.
- Actively developed — last update 6 days ago
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Small user base (<10 active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
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Rankings
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Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| e-invoicing | #48 |
| einvoice | #8 |
| einvoicing | #4 |
| peppol | #12 |
| zugferd | #16 |
About GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooCommerce
From the official readme · v2.7.0Description
GoRoute E-Invoicing connects your WooCommerce store to GoRoute, a certified Peppol Access Point (POP000991) and an accredited service provider in Oman, Australia and New Zealand. The plugin is not an invoice generator bolted onto someone else’s network: GoRoute is the network access point, so the invoice, its delivery and its delivery status are one service. Live today for businesses registered in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and Oman.
Governments are making structured e-invoices mandatory between businesses. Belgium has required them since 1 January 2026. Oman’s dates are 1 April and 1 October 2027. Germany, Singapore and others are phasing them in. A PDF by email no longer counts. Choose the country your business is registered in, connect once, and every paid order is handled correctly from then on.
Set-up in five steps
A set-up wizard opens on first activation and can be run again at any time: where is your business registered; connect to GoRoute; your business name and identifier, checked in your country’s format; store readiness with each fix beside its row; send a test invoice. Nothing else to configure.
Choose your country, and the rest follows
- The VAT or business-number field at checkout, in your country’s format, checked as the customer types.
- Business versus consumer detection from that one field.
- The right e-invoicing identifier, document format and network for your country.
- A structured e-invoice delivered to the buyer’s e-invoicing system over the Peppol network.
- A credit note for every refund, and for a cancellation, that cites the original invoice.
- Delivery status on the order: being delivered, delivered, or what needs you.
- A PDF and the XML for every document, and the document UUID with a copy control.
- Plain-language errors and a daily digest of anything that needs a person.
You never see UBL, PINT or Peppol. You see an order that was invoiced.
Countries
- Belgium: B2B e-invoicing over Peppol (BIS Billing 3.0), mandatory since 1 January 2026. Belgian VAT number at checkout, checked against VIES and the Peppol network. Consumer sales need no e-invoice and get none.
- Germany: EN 16931 invoices (Peppol BIS Billing 3.0) to business customers over Peppol; German VAT number at checkout, checked against VIES.
- Netherlands: Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 to business customers; Dutch VAT number at checkout, checked against VIES.
- Australia: PINT A-NZ invoices over Peppol; ABN at checkout with its check digit verified; GST.
- New Zealand: PINT A-NZ invoices over Peppol; NZBN at checkout with its check digit verified; GST.
- Oman: Fawtara. Consumers get a simplified tax invoice with the Fawtara QR; businesses a full tax invoice over Peppol; the tax report is filed with the Tax Authority automatically. Everything the plugin did for Oman before 2.0, unchanged.
- Coming: Singapore (once GoRoute generates the PINT SG document InvoiceNow expects), Ireland, Austria, Luxembourg and the Nordics. Countries that route invoices through a national platform instead of Peppol (France, Italy, Poland, Romania) are shown as coming soon and cannot be selected yet.
A country is offered only once GoRoute has delivered a test invoice to a real participant there.
At the checkout
A business customer types their VAT number and company name. The plugin checks the number’s format, an EU number against the VIES register, and then asks the Peppol network whether that business can receive e-invoices and under which identifier. The customer is told how their invoice will arrive before they place the order, and you see the same answer on the order.
Refunds, retries and reports
- Every refund on an invoiced order raises a credit note. Partial refunds credit only the refunded lines. A cancelled order is credited in full by itself.
- A changed buyer on an invoiced order is flagged, and one click credits the invoice and issues a new one to the right buyer.
- The invoice PDF is attached to the order emails and the credit note PDF to the refund emails.
- Duplicate submissions are impossible: a retried or double-clicked order returns the same invoice.
- If GoRoute cannot be reached, the checkout is never blocked; issuing retries in the background.
- A monthly E-Invoice report gives the net, VAT and gross figures for the VAT return, with a CSV export.
Watch it working
A sixteen-minute walkthrough on an Oman store: connecting, a consumer sale with the QR receipt, a business sale delivered over Peppol, a refund with its credit note, and where every document lands on the dashboard. A Belgian store works the same way without the consumer receipt.
Before the first invoice
A Store readiness panel checks what a truthful invoice depends on in your country: the country chosen, a connection to GoRoute, your identifier registered on the network, taxes on with your country’s standard rate, the store address in your country, and prices in your currency with the right decimals. Each red row has its fix beside it.
Orders placed by AI agents
Shopping agents now place orders through the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP). Neither order carries an invoice, and neither puts the buyer’s tax identity where WooCommerce reads it, so a business order from an agent would arrive as a consumer sale. The plugin recognises an agent order (the Stripe gateway’s agentic checkout, WooCommerce’s experimental Agentic Checkout, the UCP/ACP Agent plugin, or any layer that says so through a filter), takes the buyer’s registered name and tax identifier the agent supplied under the ai.goroute.einvoice extension, and issues the same business invoice a customer typing a VAT number at checkout would get. The order then carries an einvoice object (status, document type, number, how it was delivered) for the agent to read. Specification: https://goroute.ai/ucp/einvoice.json. Ordinary orders are untouched.
What this plugin does not claim
It generates and transmits structured e-invoices for the countries listed above and validates them against the applicable Peppol rules. Whether a given business is inside a mandate, and what else that mandate asks of it, is for the business and its adviser to confirm.
Requires a GoRoute account
The plugin is free. A GoRoute account is what issues the documents, and a new account starts on the Free plan: 50 invoices a month with every feature and no card. When the store outgrows it, the settings page shows the usage and the paid plans (Starter $19, Growth $49, Business $99, Agency $249 a month, in US dollars); choosing one opens Stripe Checkout run by GoRoute and brings you straight back. Paid plans are never stopped at their allowance. Press “Connect to GoRoute” in the set-up to create the account.
External Services
This plugin connects to the GoRoute e-invoicing API at https://goroute.ai to issue documents. It is useless without it, by design: the compliance rules, validation and delivery live on the platform, so a rule change in your country reaches every store the same day with no plugin update.
What is sent, and when
- On each paid order and each refund: the order’s line items (name, quantity, net price, tax rate and category, SKU), totals, currency, your legal seller name and VAT number, and the customer’s billing name, company, address, email and VAT number where given.
- On “Connect to GoRoute”: your store’s address and name, so GoRoute can issue the store its own key.
- On “Test connection”, at checkout when a VAT number is typed, and on “Look up”: a single authenticated read to verify the key or to ask whether a VAT number is on the network.
- For an EU store, a VAT number typed at checkout is also checked against the European Commission’s VIES service (https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/), which receives the country code and number only.
- On deactivation, only if you press Send in the short “why are you leaving” box: your answer, an email address if you give one, this site’s address, the country and plugin version, by your site’s own mail to admin@goroute.ai. Skip sends nothing.
- Nothing is sent at any other time, and nothing is sent by a store that has not been connected.
What comes back
The invoice number, the document UUID, delivery status for business documents, PDFs and XML on request, and for Oman the verification URL and the QR code as an inline image stored on the order. The plugin loads no remote scripts, styles or images from any third party; the only outbound calls are the API calls above.
Service provider: GoRoute (ClayDesk LLC / Union Digital Technologies SPC). Terms: https://goroute.ai/terms.html. Privacy: https://goroute.ai/privacy.html.
Opt-in only, both unticked by default, on the first set-up step:
- Help me set up sends one message to GoRoute (https://goroute.ai, privacy policy https://goroute.ai/privacy.html) with your site address, the email of the signed-in administrator, the plugin, WordPress, WooCommerce and PHP versions and the country you chose, so a GoRoute person can write back. It is sent once, when you tick the box.
- Anonymous usage and error reports send small events to the same GoRoute API when the plugin is activated, when a set-up step is completed, weekly, and when one of the plugin’s own calls to GoRoute fails: the plugin, WordPress, WooCommerce and PHP versions, the country, the step or the error code, and a one-way hash of your site address. Never the address itself, never a name, order or customer. Switch it off at any time under GoRoute E-Invoicing settings.
Every call the plugin makes to GoRoute carries a User-Agent header naming the plugin version, as any HTTP client does.
Installation
- Install the plugin from the WordPress plugin directory, or upload the zip under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, and activate it.
- Open WooCommerce → GoRoute E-Invoicing, choose where your business is registered, and press “Connect to GoRoute”.
- Sign in to GoRoute, or create an account, and approve the connection. You come back with the key, your legal name and VAT number filled in and delivery updates switched on. Prefer a key from your dashboard? Paste it into the API key field instead.
- Check that the Store readiness rows are green, then place a test order.
- Selling to businesses too? A customer who enters a VAT number at checkout gets a structured e-invoice delivered over Peppol; nothing else to set up. Oman stores also pick the type of service or the customs code under “Business invoices: what you sell”.
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect the store to GoRoute?
Press “Connect to GoRoute” on the settings page, sign in or create your GoRoute account, and approve. GoRoute issues the store its own key and sends back your organisation’s legal name and VAT number; the plugin also switches on real-time delivery updates. The key is never shown or typed. Revoke it any time under API Keys in the GoRoute dashboard; “Disconnect” on the settings page forgets it locally.
Does it handle business customers?
Yes. The checkout carries an optional VAT number field in your country’s format. An order with a valid VAT number gets a structured e-invoice to that buyer, delivered to their e-invoicing system through the Peppol network by GoRoute, and the order shows the delivery status. Orders without a VAT number are consumer sales: in Oman they get the simplified tax invoice with the Fawtara QR; in Belgium they need no e-invoice and get none.
Which countries are supported?
Belgium and Oman in 2.0. Germany, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand come next, then the Netherlands, Ireland, Austria and the Nordics. Countries that route invoices through a national platform rather than Peppol (France, Italy, Poland, Romania) are listed as coming soon and cannot be selected. A country is offered only once GoRoute has delivered a test invoice to a real participant there.
Does GoRoute need to be an accredited provider in my country?
Not for Peppol countries such as Belgium: any certified Peppol Access Point may deliver there, and GoRoute is one (POP000991). Where a country requires a national accreditation to register local businesses, GoRoute holds it for Oman, Australia and New Zealand. Countries where a Peppol Access Point is not enough are the ones shown as coming soon.
Is my store legally compliant once I install this?
The plugin generates and transmits structured e-invoices for the supported countries and validates them against the applicable Peppol rules. Whether your business is inside a mandate, and what else that mandate asks of it, is for you and your adviser to confirm; no plugin can promise that.
What if the business customer is not on the e-invoicing network yet?
In Belgium the e-invoice cannot be delivered, and the order says so. Often the buyer is registered under their enterprise number rather than their VAT number; the plugin tries both. Ask the customer which identifier their accounting software receives e-invoices under and enter it on the order, or send them the PDF. In Oman the invoice is still issued: the Solution Architecture provides for this case, the document is filed with the Tax Authority under the substitute address, the order shows “Reported to the Tax Authority”, and you send the customer the PDF from the order page; the customer’s…
How do I check whether a VAT number is on the network?
WooCommerce → GoRoute E-Invoicing → Network lookup. Enter any VAT number in your country’s format, yours or a customer’s, and the answer says whether it is registered to receive e-invoices and under which business name. A pending business order also shows this for its buyer before the invoice is issued.
Can two stores share one GoRoute account?
Yes. Connect each store; each gets its own key. Invoice numbers must be unique across the account, so give the second store a document number prefix under GoRoute E-Invoicing (INV-SHOP2-101 instead of INV-101). Stores that belong to different legal entities should use different GoRoute organisations, one per VAT number.
What does the store need before the first invoice?
The country chosen, taxes on with your country’s standard rate (21% in Belgium, 5% in Oman), the store address in your country, prices in your currency with the right decimals, and the store’s own VAT number registered on the network. Oman stores also need the site clock on Muscat time. The Store readiness panel at the top of the settings page checks all of these and offers the fix beside each one, including a one-click VAT rate. An order that would claim 0% VAT on a standard-rated item is refused with a plain explanation rather than filed.
I sell both goods and services (Oman).
Set the store default to whichever you sell more of, then give the other products their own classification on the product’s General tab: “Services” with the type of service from the list, or “Goods” with the 12-digit customs (HS) code. A product left on “Store default” follows the store setting. Only business invoices need this; consumer receipts do not.
I sell zero-rated or exempt goods.
Put those products in a WooCommerce tax class and map the class under GoRoute E-Invoicing → VAT categories. Zero-rated and exempt lines are then declared as such on the invoice with the reason code the invoice format expects. Unmapped classes are standard rated.
Can customers download a PDF?
Yes. Every invoice and credit note has a PDF link on the order-confirmation page, in the order email and under My Account → Orders, in English, or Arabic for Oman stores. No login is needed; the link is signed and unguessable.
Is there a shortcode or block?
Yes. [goroute_invoice] and the “GoRoute E-Invoice” block render the invoice for the order on the page, for stores with a custom thank-you page. Pass order="123" to show a specific order to someone allowed to see it.
How do I get the monthly figures for the VAT return?
WooCommerce → E-Invoice report lists every document of a month with net, VAT and gross, invoices and credit notes, consumer and business, and exports it as CSV.
What happens if an order is edited after its invoice was issued?
The tax document does not change with an edit. The order is flagged once, with the total it was issued for, and the fix is a refund, which raises a credit note.
Do I need to change my theme or checkout?
No. The plugin hooks the order events WooCommerce already fires. The VAT number field is added to the block checkout and the classic checkout without touching your theme.
What happens when an order is cancelled after it was invoiced?
The invoice has already been delivered (in Oman, filed with the Tax Authority), so it is credited: a credit note for the full amount, or for what the order’s refunds left, is issued when the status changes to Cancelled. It appears in the GoRoute E-Invoice box with its own PDF, and in the monthly report.
The customer gave the wrong VAT number. Can I change it on the order?
You can change the order, but not the invoice: an issued document never changes once delivered. The box flags the difference and offers Re-bill, which credits the issued invoice in full and issues a new one to the buyer the order names now. Both documents stay on the order.
Where is the invoice UUID?
Under the document number in the GoRoute E-Invoice box, for the invoice and every credit note, with a Copy control. It is the identifier the buyer’s system, and in Oman the Tax Authority, keys on.
Can I download the XML that was filed?
Yes: “XML” beside every Download PDF. It is the signed UBL exactly as it was sent, the tax record itself.
Changelog
2.7.0
- Orders placed by AI agents over UCP or ACP are recognised (the Stripe gateway’s agentic checkout, WooCommerce’s experimental Agentic Checkout, the UCP/ACP Agent plugin, or the
goroute_wc_agentic_orderfilter). The buyer’s registered name and tax identifier the agent supplied under the ai.goroute.einvoice extension (order meta_goroute_buyer_business, or thegoroute_wc_agentic_order_identityfilter) are written onto the fields the checkout would have filled, so the order is invoiced as the business sale it is. Aneinvoiceobject (_goroute_einvoice, and on the REST order) reports status, document type, number, delivery route and the network message id. Nothing changes for an order no agent placed.
2.6.0
- Two unticked boxes on the first set-up step: “have a GoRoute person help me set this up” sends your site address and email to GoRoute once, so someone can get in touch; “anonymous usage and error reports” sends versions, the country and a hashed site id (never your address, orders or customers), and can be switched off in the settings.
- The plugin identifies itself by version on its calls to GoRoute, so support can see which version a store runs.
2.5.2
- The WordPress dashboard card is now a small analytics panel: the GoRoute mark, this month’s tiles with the trend against last month, a thirty-day chart of documents issued per day (complete in green, hover a bar for the day), the amount invoiced this month split into business and consumer, a ring of how documents reached their buyers (Peppol, email, Tax Authority, receipts, waiting, failed), the plan’s usage bar, the readiness line, and buttons for Settings, the e-invoice report, the orders that need attention, the guide and your GoRoute dashboard. Still built from cached order meta only; no script is loaded.
2.5.1
- Every invoice outside Oman now states the date of supply (the order’s completion date, or the paid date for orders invoiced at payment), which a German invoice must carry and which the XRechnung rules ask for. Credit notes cite the original supply date.
2.5.0
- Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand: a business customer whose VAT number is not on the Peppol network is now invoiced by email instead of being refused. GoRoute issues and stores the invoice, and the PDF attached to the order email is a PDF/A-3 hybrid with the EN 16931 e-invoice embedded (ZUGFeRD in Germany), which the buyer’s accounting software reads directly. Refunds follow as credit notes the same way. The order box and the orders list say “Email” for these documents. Belgium keeps refusing in words, because Belgian business invoices must go over Peppol.
- Every EU invoice PDF (downloaded or emailed) now carries the e-invoice inside, whether it was delivered over Peppol or by email.
2.4.4
- Listing only: the title and the opening say what the plugin is — Peppol e-invoicing from a certified Access Point, for the six live countries. No code changes.
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Is GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… free?
Yes. GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… safe to use in 2026?
GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. Was last updated 6 days ago, and scores 64/100 on our health check.
How many websites use GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm…?
GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 659 times since it launched in September 2026. It was downloaded 666 times in the last 30 days.
Does GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… up to WordPress 7.1.2, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.0 or newer.
What PHP version does GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… need?
GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… last updated?
The latest version, 2.7.0, was released on September 24, 2026 (6 days ago).
Who makes GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm…?
GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooComm… is developed and maintained by goroute.
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