Many problems with Woocommerce Customer Invoice

  • Hi

    I’m testing a webshop setup with credit card payments. After completing an order it is – from a legal perspective – neccessary to send a customer invoice to the person purchasing a product. This is giving me a suprising number of problems:

    1. Other emails (Order confirmation, completed order) are sent correctly but when I try to manually send out a Customer Invoice from the order backend – it results in a short email with the header “Order #xxxx details” and no indication of this being an invoice. This may be a silly question: How is a Customer Invoice normally sent out in Woocommerce?

    2. In my country it is necessary to have a sequential invoice number on an invoice. For obvious practical reasons it can’t be the same as the order number (there will be gaps in the numbering). I simply can’t find out where to input an invoice number in Woocommerce!

    3. It is also a legal requirement to have following information on the invoice: A. The amount excl VAT. B. The VAT rate. C. The VAT amount. D. The total amount incl. VAT. As of now Woocommerce is only putting C and D into the various emails. I assume this will also be the case, if and when I manage to send out a Customer Invoice. How is this possible?

    I hope someone can help on this issue – these problems could become a real reason to find a different shop-setup, which would be a shame, because it works so well in other respects.

    Thanks ??

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  • hi there,

    i am working on a woocommerce shop and have to get online these days. the shop is located in germany, where we need sequential invoice numbers. but unfortunately no invoice numbers appear.
    next thing is, what happens when an invoice is generated along with a test order that will be terminated? would this cause missing invoice numbers?

    thanks for any reply! ??

    Hi larsactionhero,

    same problem in austria.
    a workarround according to my tax consultant is, to add some text in the invoice that states “Bestellnummer = Rechnungsnummer” and also to have printed copy of the test invoices and aat them to the book keeping docs ?? I solved it with a statement in my documents (eidesstattliche Erkl?rung) which tells, that the production invoice numbers starts with number xxx and anything before was testing invoices. while in production orders are sometimes also canceled I add the first page of theses invoices as well to my bookkeeping docs and mark them as “Canceled”

    Greets from Vienna
    Tom

    Hi larsactionhero,

    You need to change your templates in order to show invoice numbers, as by default WooCommerce only shows order numbers.

    WooCommerce would not know if the orders are for testing or for real, it would just generate a sequential invoice number.

    Make a database copy before testing and then restore it after testing ??

    Regards,
    Gabriel

    I cannot seem to get my VAT showing when I do a manual order. It doesn’t come up on the invoices when I process them even if it is a UK order.

    Can anyone please advise?

    Kind regards

    Chris

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