VIESAC – Free VAT Validation for WooCommerce

1.0.8

• Block checkout submission when a non-empty VAT number has an invalid format or VIESAC confirms it is invalid
• Show the validation error in the standard WooCommerce notice area for classic checkout and as a Store API error for Block Checkout
• Keep VAT optional: customers can remove a VAT number and complete checkout with regular VAT

1.0.7

• Redesign the VIESAC settings account summary to separate live VAT validation limits from monthly audit/certificate usage
• Show a checkout success state when VIESAC live VAT validation succeeds
• Show a dedicated country mismatch error when the VAT number prefix does not match the selected checkout country
• Improve WooCommerce-origin VAT checker logs in the VIESAC app
• Tested with WordPress 7.0 and WooCommerce 10.9.4

1.0.6

• Show live VAT validation usage for the current hour on the VIESAC settings page
• Fix billing/shipping country matching for VAT format checks in classic and block checkout

1.0.5

• Require complete B2B checkout fields and live VIESAC API validation before applying 0% VAT
• Add country-specific VAT format validation for EU countries, Norway, and Switzerland
• Show inline VAT errors for invalid formats, invalid VAT numbers, and hourly validation limits
• Show format-only mode and live validation hourly limits on the VIESAC settings page

1.0.4

• Add Norway and Switzerland VAT validation support
• Add WordPress.org plugin icons, banner, and screenshots
• Sharpen readme copy around free VAT validation, VAT number checkout fields, B2B tax exemption, and certificate storage

1.0.3

• Clean up WordPress.org scanner issues without changing checkout behavior
• Add missing plugin translations for Company name fields across all bundled locales
• Rebuild translation files for verified runtime loading in WordPress
• Harden admin output escaping and checkout/order input sanitization
• Normalize plugin file line endings and refine PHPCS-safe request handling in checkout/order flows

1.0.2

• Add best-effort fallback VAT field injection for custom WooCommerce checkout themes
• Re-inject VAT field after checkout AJAX updates and DOM re-renders
• Improve compatibility with custom theme checkout wrappers such as Avada-style layouts
• Keep WooCommerce Blocks behavior separate from classic/custom theme fallback logic

1.0.1

• Update text domain and WordPress compatibility metadata
• Add WooCommerce dependency header
• Document external API service usage for WordPress.org review
• Clean plugin copy for UTF-8 safe packaging

1.0.0

• Initial release
• VAT validation at checkout
• 15 free VIESAC audits per month
• VIES certificate download
• Admin settings page
• 25+ language translations