market-it! EU Guarantee Notice for WooCommerce

From 27 September 2026, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1960 requires online sellers in the EU to prominently display a harmonised notice reminding consumers of their statutory legal guarantee — before they complete a purchase.

market-it! EU Guarantee Notice for WooCommerce places the official EU notice on your store for you: the right language, in a place you choose, presented the way the Commission’s own practical guidelines show it — without you redesigning or editing the artwork yourself.

This plugin displays the general legal-guarantee notice only. It does not cover the separate, optional GARAN durability label, which only applies if you voluntarily offer a commercial guarantee of more than two years covering the whole product at no extra cost.

Requires WooCommerce (WooCommerce 8.0 or later; tested up to 11.0).

Key features

• Ships the official EU notice artwork, colour version, for all 24 official EU languages — nothing is redrawn, recoloured or edited
• Fully automatic per-locale display: the right notice image and the right “Your Europe” link are chosen for the visitor’s language with no setup required
• Popup display by default: a short link reveals the full notice on click, matching the guidelines’ product-page and checkout examples
• Popup trigger text is translated automatically too (English, German, Swedish, Spanish, French, with English as the fallback for other languages) — or override it with your own wording, shown as-is to every visitor
• “Always visible” display mode for placements where a popup doesn’t fit (e.g. templates you use for order confirmation emails)
• Automatic placement on the product page, checkout, and/or the WooCommerce content area — check as many as you like
• [miegn_guarantee_notice] shortcode for placing it anywhere else (page builders, widgets, the site header/footer, specific templates)
• Language detection (Polylang, WPML, and site locale), with a configurable fallback for the rare visitor whose language can’t be determined at all
• Notice links to the exact “Your Europe” page for the visitor’s language — the same destination required for the QR code, sourced from the Commission’s published URL list
• No customer or order data is read, stored or transmitted by this plugin

How the notice is shown

The European Commission’s practical guidelines illustrate the harmonised notice appearing behind a short sentence such as “Your legal guarantee rights”, revealed on the first click or mouse roll-over. This plugin’s default Popup display mode reproduces exactly that pattern: a text trigger, styled like any other link on your site, and the full official notice image in a dismissible, centered dialog (closes on its own close button, on clicking outside, or on Escape).

Switch to Always visible under WooCommerce → EU Guarantee Notice if you’d rather the full notice image appear directly wherever it’s placed — this is also the only sensible option for content that can’t run JavaScript, such as an order confirmation email template.

Placement

Configure automatic placement under WooCommerce → EU Guarantee Notice — check as many as you like, they can all be active together:

• Product page (after Add to Cart)
• WooCommerce content area (single product + shop loop)
• Checkout, before Place Order

Leave all three unchecked and the notice only appears where you place the shortcode yourself.

There’s no automatic “site header” or “site footer” option, deliberately: those are regions your theme or page builder generates itself, and this plugin has no reliable way to detect where inside them a plugin-injected block of markup will actually land — depending on the builder, it can end up outside the area’s own styling and layout entirely. The shortcode doesn’t have that problem: use [miegn_guarantee_notice] anywhere — a header or footer template, a page builder’s own layout, widgets, an order confirmation email template — and it renders exactly where you put it.

Checkout works automatically either way your store is set up: on the classic checkout template, and on the newer WooCommerce Checkout block — each is detected and handled by its own mechanism, so switching between them (or a WooCommerce update changing the default) doesn’t silently break it. If your checkout is instead built with a page builder that reconstructs the checkout outside WooCommerce’s own template/block, verify the notice appears there the same way you would for header/footer; the shortcode remains the dependable fallback if it doesn’t.

For an order confirmation email template — which can’t run JavaScript, so use Always visible — add [miegn_guarantee_notice] to the template yourself, or call MIEGN_Notice::instance()->render() from a woocommerce_email_* hook.

Language handling

The plugin bundles the official notice for all 24 EU languages and shows it fully automatically: it detects the visitor’s language (Polylang or WPML if active, otherwise the site locale), shows the matching notice image, and links it to that language’s official “Your Europe” guarantee-information page. Nothing needs configuring for this to cover every official EU language. The “Default / fallback language” setting only matters on the rare request where a visitor’s language can’t be determined at all.

The trigger link (shown when “Display” is set to Popup) is automatic too, by default. The plugin ships its own translation of the trigger text — English, German, Swedish, Spanish and French, see /languages — and shows the one matching the notice’s language, independently of the site’s own admin locale and without needing Polylang or WPML for this specific piece of text. Every other supported notice language falls back to the English wording.

If you’d rather every visitor see the exact same wording — in one language, worded your way — type your own text under WooCommerce → EU Guarantee Notice, “Trigger link text”: whatever you type there is shown verbatim to every visitor, in every language, instead of the automatic translation. Leave it blank to keep the automatic behaviour. Developers who want the automatic default translated into additional languages, or an override that varies by language itself, can use the miegn_trigger_text filter, which receives the notice’s resolved language code.

Source of the bundled artwork and links

The notice images and the per-language link destinations are taken, unmodified, from the European Commission’s “Practical guidelines for sellers and producers on the EU harmonised notice and label for product guarantees” and its accompanying high-resolution vector file download:
https://commission.europa.eu/publications/high-resolution-vector-files-eu-notice-and-label-product-guarantees_en

© European Union. Reused under the Commission’s default document reuse policy (Commission Decision of 12 December 2011, equivalent to Creative Commons Attribution 4.0), which permits redistribution — including in commercial software — provided the source is credited, as it is here.

WooCommerce® is a registered trademark of Automattic Inc. This plugin is an independent, third-party extension and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Automattic or the WooCommerce project.

Privacy

This plugin does not process any personal or order data. It renders a static notice image and a link to an EU information page; nothing is stored, logged, or sent to market-it! or any other external service.

Legal disclaimer

market-it! EU Guarantee Notice is a software tool designed to help WooCommerce merchants display the official EU legal-guarantee notice. It is provided for informational and operational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Merchants remain responsible for ensuring that their website and business processes comply with all applicable laws in their jurisdiction, including confirming the notice artwork, placement, and link destination remain current.

Legal requirements may vary between countries and may change over time. Seek advice from a qualified legal professional where needed.

market-it! does not guarantee legal compliance and accepts no responsibility for how the plugin is configured, implemented, or used.