REST API

Please can you explain specifically which features you are referring to? Some of them don’t make any sense in a REST API context.

hi,
we prepare orders for customers through REST API.
but we want woocommerce to apply the EU Tax rules:
– in case of a customer from another EU country: no VAT needed if verified VAT/location of customer is “confirmed”.
– in case of a customer of my country: VAT needed
Looking forward for your answer & many thanks in advance

This plugin does not calculate taxes (whether over REST, or at the checkout). That is done by WooCommerce core, according to the tax tables you set up – https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/setting-up-taxes-in-woocommerce/ . The only input that the plugin has is to mark a customer as VAT-exempt at the checkout if a valid number is supplied (and if the settings are set accordingly). The plugin itself does not have a REST interface. You would need to yourself decide if you want to mark the customer as exempt.

– I presume the check {VAT-exempt or not} is done at the moment (and stored with) the order is submitted, based on customer info.
– Does the plugin check an order placed through the REST API and mark it as VAT-exempt or not?

Hi, unfortunately, internally, things don’t really work like that. The REST API is a bare-bones interface to WC’s internals. It’s a quite different environment, from the point of view of how orders go through, to the front-end- checkout. Things only exist there if they’ve been explicitly coded. In the context of EU VAT, that presents a number of technical complications. As things are, our plugin does not have any specific code for doing anything with REST orders.