8 years ago
Magento Community 1.7 and Magento Enterprise 1.12 feature the handling of EU VAT IDs and assigning Customer Accounts to customer groups based on the validation result for the VAT ID.
These new Magento Core functions seems duplicate with the functions of our EuVAT Extension, at first sight. We evaluated these new functions added to Magento 1.7 and here is our comparison that will show you what extra functions our EuVAT for Magento extension is still having over the Magento Core implementation of EU VAT IDs
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Magento CE 1.7 (EE 1.12)
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EuVAT for Magento
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Validate VAT ID through EU VIES
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Cache validation results to lower number of requests to EU VIES
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Detect service outages at EU VIES and allow local validation of EU VAT ID
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Assign Customer Account to Customer Group for customer from Stores country
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Only with valid VAT ID
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Assign Customer Account to Customer Group for EU Business
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Assign Customer Account to Customer Group for EU Consumer
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Assign Customer Account to Customer Group for outside EU
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Use Customer Tax Classes instead of Customer Groups (allows customer groups to be used for other purposes)
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Allow VAT ID to be validated before continuing account creation or checkout
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Allow VAT ID to be validated from the Customer Account view in the Administrator Backend
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Only when creating a new Backend Order
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VAT Report for sales on the different Customer Groups (required in some EU Countries)
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Exclude Customer Account from further VAT ID validations
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Log errors being received from EU VIES service during validations into Administrator Notifications
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Allow additional tax rules for specific EU Countries
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Allow interaction with VAT ID validation process through Event
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Show elaborate information to customers about their VAT status during account creation and checkout.
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Limit account creation to validated EU Businesses for EU B2B transactions only.
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