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Stop spending hours wrestling with WooCommerce tax tables. TaxZen for WooCommerce replaces the tedious, error-prone process of manually configuring tax rates with a guided 5-step wizard that gets your store tax-compliant in minutes.
Whether you sell physical goods, digital products, or services — domestically or across borders — TaxZen handles the complexity so you can focus on growing your business.
🧙 5-Step Setup Wizard
Get from zero to fully-configured taxes in under 5 minutes:
Store Setup — Auto-detects your WooCommerce store country and currency (or set manually)
Product Types — Choose what you sell: Physical Goods, Digital Products, Services — each gets the correct tax class
Target Countries — Select the countries where you sell, with smart defaults for EU, NAFTA, and APAC regions
Rate Preview — Review every rate before it touches your store, with country-by-country breakdown
One-Click Apply — Push all rates to WooCommerce tax tables with a single click and two-step confirmation
Re-run the wizard anytime. TaxZen cleans up old rates automatically — no duplicates, no orphaned entries.
🌍 Global Tax Rate Coverage
✨ Core Features
5-Step Setup Wizard: Configure your store’s tax rates for any country in minutes.
Auto-Syncing Rates Engine: The plugin automatically connects to reliable open-source APIs every week in the background, continuously keeping your free dynamic rates cached and up-to-date without needing plugin updates.
Smart Defaults: Auto-detects your shop’s base country and currency.
Global Rate Database: Built-in support for standard, reduced, and zero tax rates across 100+ countries.
Deep WooCommerce Integration: Automatically applies rates at checkout, manages shipping tax, and stamps orders with a custom “Tax Source” badge.
B2B EU EU Exemption: Automatically validates EU VIES VAT numbers at checkout to exempt legitimate B2B buyers.
Smart Address Validation: Verifies shipping zip codes and cities at checkout using OpenStreetMap Nominatim to prevent incorrect tax calculations.
Digital Goods Auto-Classification: Automatically assigns virtual/downloadable products to the correct tax class.
Dashboard & Alerts: A beautiful interface offering real-time rate statistics, activity logs, and email notifications when global tax laws change.
EU OSS/MOSS Report Generator: One-click quarterly compliance export aggregating EU B2C sales and VAT collected by member state and tax rate.
WooCommerce Analytics Built-in: Includes a dedicated “TaxZen Usage” tracking tab seamlessly embedded inside the native WooCommerce Reports screen.
PDF & CSV Exports: Downloadable tax compliance reports for your records.
Built for Reliability: Three-layer duplicate prevention ensures existing rates are updated safely without cluttering your database.
Third-Party Services & APIs
To provide accurate tax calculations, real-time address validation, and VAT number compliance monitoring, this plugin connects to external third-party services. Below is a detailed disclosure of each service utilized by this plugin:
TaxZen Rates Cloud API (https://swapnilde.github.io/taxzen)
Service Name: TaxZen Rates Cloud API
What the service is: A first-party static API service hosted on GitHub Pages by the plugin authors to deliver verified global sales tax and VAT rate updates.
What it is used for: Fetching the latest global sales tax rates database.
What data is sent: No user or store data is sent. Only a standard HTTP GET request is made.
When data is sent: Manually when triggered from the dashboard, or once a week via a scheduled cron job only if the store administrator explicitly enables automatic weekly sync in settings (disabled by default).
Account needed: None (Free Service).
Terms & Privacy Policy: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-privacy-statement (GitHub platform policies).
VATSense API (https://api.vatsense.com)
Service Name: VATSense API
What the service is: A commercial SaaS API for global sales tax rates.
What it is used for: Looking up real-time, verified corporate sales tax rates for the store base and customer location.
What data is sent: The customer’s country code, state, and city. No personal user identifiers (like names or emails) are transmitted.
When data is sent: During tax calculation at checkout and when saving settings (only if the administrator selects VATSense as the active rate provider; static rates are used by default).
Account needed: Yes (requires a VATSense API key).
Terms of Service: https://vatsense.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://vatsense.com/privacy
OpenStreetMap Nominatim API (https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org)
Service Name: OpenStreetMap Nominatim API
What the service is: A public geocoding service based on OpenStreetMap data.
What it is used for: Validating customer shipping addresses (city, state, and zip code) at checkout to prevent incorrect tax calculations.
What data is sent: The billing or shipping address details (specifically street address, city, state, zip code, and country).
When data is sent: When a customer validates their address during WooCommerce checkout, only if the administrator explicitly enables address validation in settings (disabled by default).
Account needed: None.
Usage Policy & Terms: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/
Privacy Policy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy
EU VIES VAT Validation Service (https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies)
Service Name: EU VIES VAT Validation Service
What the service is: The European Commission’s official VAT Information Exchange System (VIES) REST API.
What it is used for: Validating EU B2B VAT identification numbers in real-time to apply B2B tax exemptions.
What data is sent: The customer’s EU VAT identification number and country code.
When data is sent: During checkout when a customer enters an EU VAT number, only if the administrator explicitly enables B2B VAT validation in settings (disabled by default).
Account needed: None.
Terms & Privacy Policy: https://ec.europa.eu/info/privacy-policy_en
Source Code & Build Instructions
This plugin uses modern build tools to compile and minify its JavaScript and CSS files. The uncompiled source code is included within the plugin directory under src/ and is also publicly available in our GitHub repository.
GitHub Repository: https://github.com/swapnilde/taxzen
Source Files: All raw, uncompiled JavaScript and CSS files are located in the /src directory.
Compiled Assets: The generated, production-ready minified files are located in the /build directory.
How to Build and Compile the Assets
To build the project locally, follow these steps:
Clone the repository or navigate to the plugin folder:
cd wp-content/plugins/taxzen
Install the npm dependencies:
npm install
Run the build script to compile the assets (using @wordpress/scripts):
npm run build
For active development, you can run the watcher:
npm start
To install PHP Composer dependencies:
composer install
