GoRoute E-Invoicing for WooCommerce

Changelog

2.1.6

• Store readiness re-asks the network within ten minutes after a “not registered” answer, and “Check again” in the set-up always asks afresh, so a registration completed a moment ago shows green a moment later.

2.1.5

• On the Plugins screen the “Rate us” stars are WordPress’s own rating stars, and Documentation opens the guide for the chosen country.
• Deactivating asks why, once, in a small box: send an answer or skip; the plugin deactivates either way.

2.1.4

• The checkout hint always answers: the network’s answer comes first, the EU VAT register is advisory, and an outage is said in words instead of silence.

2.1.3

• The set-up always begins at step 1. Answered steps show their answer with a Continue button, so every store walks the same path; the connection step shows the connected organisation when there is one.

2.1.2

• The set-up opens on a welcome screen: what the plugin does, an animated picture of an order’s journey, where the store stands, and one button that starts, continues or reviews the set-up. Nothing speaks in a country’s terms before a country is chosen.
• Every set-up page carries the GoRoute mark and closes with three cards: all settings (once set-up is complete), the step-by-step guide, and help.
• The menu entry is “GoRoute set-up”.

2.1.1

• The country is changed only in the set-up wizard, which re-runs the steps the change invalidates; the settings page shows it with a Change link instead of a dropdown that took effect only on save.
• Until set-up is complete, the settings page opens the wizard at the first unfinished step. A store configured before the wizard existed is complete without a click.
• A store identifier that is not valid for the chosen country is flagged in Store readiness with a link to enter the right one, instead of passing on an old network answer.

2.1.0

• Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand can be chosen. Each is proven by a delivered test invoice and credit note on the Peppol test network before it appears.
• ABN and NZBN check digits are verified at checkout and in settings; GST wording for Australia and New Zealand.
• A set-up wizard: country, connection, business identity, readiness, test invoice. Opens once on first activation; the settings page links to it.
• The settings page and the network lookup speak in the chosen country’s terms.

2.0.0

• One plugin for every country GoRoute delivers to. A new setting, “Where is your business registered?”, sets the VAT number format at checkout, the e-invoicing identifier, the document format and network, the tax-rate check and what a consumer sale gets.
• Belgium: Belgian VAT number at checkout, checked against VIES and the Peppol network under the enterprise-number and VAT schemes; business invoices as Peppol BIS Billing 3.0; consumer sales need no e-invoice and are marked so.
• Oman stores are recognised on upgrade and set to Oman automatically; receipts, numbers and QR codes are unchanged.
• Countries not yet offered are listed as coming soon and cannot be selected.
• The setup guide, the readiness panel and every message speak in the chosen country’s terms.
• Dutch and French translations for Belgian stores.

1.4.0

• The document UUID is shown under every invoice and credit note, with a Copy control, and stored at issue.
• “XML” beside every PDF: the signed UBL exactly as filed.
• A cancelled order is credited in full by itself; a partly refunded one for what is left.
• A changed VAT number on an invoiced order is flagged, and “Re-bill” credits the invoice and issues a new one to the buyer the order names now.
• The Tax Authority’s answer to each tax report, accepted or rejected, shows under the document and reaches the daily digest.
• The invoice PDF rides on the order emails, the credit note PDF on the refund emails (setting under Customer emails).
• At the checkout, a valid VAT number is checked against the network at once and the customer is told how their invoice will arrive.
• An “E-invoice: needs attention” filter on the Orders list, and a warning sign on orders that no longer match their document.
• A business invoice needs the buyer’s company name; a blank one is refused in words instead of filing a document with a person’s name on it.
• “Issue the invoice” setting: when paid (the default, now also when a bank-transfer or cash order is moved to Processing) or when marked Completed.
• The document number prefix explains that the number series must not collide with anything else invoicing from the same account.

1.3.7

• A “Rate us” link on the Plugins list and a footer note on the plugin’s own screens.
• FAQ: a store that sells both goods and services.

1.3.6

• A delivery that fails because the receiving side could not look the buyer up in the registry, usually a momentary fault, is retried automatically after one, five and thirty minutes before the order asks for a person. The order box shows when the next retry is due.
• The reachability check before a business invoice asks the network live instead of a cached answer.
• The order panel is placed at the top of the right column by default; the webhook secret is masked on the settings page.

1.3.5

• The type of service for business invoices is chosen from the Tax Authority’s list (CL-12-OM, twenty entries such as “86000000 — Education and Training Services”) instead of typed; a typed code the Authority does not know was the reason a business invoice on a real store was refused. Goods keep the 12-digit customs (HS) code, checked on save. Same picker on the product’s General tab.
• A missing or invalid classification is explained on the order page with where to set it.

1.3.4

• The order box updates itself for ninety seconds after a business document is issued, so “Being delivered” flips to “Delivered to the buyer via Peppol at 14:48” without a reload. “Delivered” carries the time the buyer’s system acknowledged the document.
• A document still unacknowledged after a minute says “Still waiting for the buyer’s system to acknowledge” instead of a bare “Being delivered”.

1.3.3

• A business invoice the platform refuses on validation is now shown as refused, with the platform’s reasons in words on the order page, instead of being recorded as issued with no document behind it. Such a refusal is not retried; fix the cause and use Issue now.
• An order that an earlier version recorded as issued without a document behind it now says so and offers Issue now.

1.3.2

• A step-by-step guide under WooCommerce → E-Invoicing guide: before the first invoice, a consumer sale, a business sale from the checkout or from a hand-made order, refunds, buyers not on the network, checking what was sent, and what each refusal means. Linked from the settings page and the Plugins list.
• The directory description carries a condensed “How to send an invoice”.

1.3.1

• The Oman-time check accepts any timezone at UTC+4 (Muscat, Dubai, or a manual offset) and names the site’s zone and how far off it is.
• When an order carries no VAT line, the refusal now says why for that order: taxes off, the 5% rate missing, or a billing country other than Oman on an order created by hand, with the exact steps (Pending → country → Recalculate → complete → Issue now).

1.3.0

• One-button connection: “Connect to GoRoute” signs the merchant in to GoRoute, asks for approval, and returns with a store-specific key, the legal name and VAT number filled in, and delivery updates switched on. The key is minted by GoRoute and exchanged server to server; it never appears on screen. Pasting a key still works.
• “Connected to your organisation” and Disconnect on the settings page; the first-run notice leads straight to Connect.
• Document number prefix for a second store on the same GoRoute account, so the two stores’ invoice numbers cannot collide.
• Delivery updates subscribe to the platform’s real event names; a refused registration is explained on the settings page.

1.2.0

• Store readiness panel: taxes and the Oman 5% rate (one click), Muscat time, OMR to three decimals, the store’s VAT number registered on the network. The same checks appear under WooCommerce → Status.
• VAT categories: WooCommerce tax classes map to standard, zero rated or exempt, with optional reason codes. An invoice that would claim 0% VAT on a standard-rated item is refused in words instead of filed.
• Customers get a signed PDF link for every invoice and credit note on the order-confirmation page, in the order email and under My Account; English or Arabic.
• My Account → Orders → View shows the invoice; the [goroute_invoice] shortcode and a “GoRoute E-Invoice” block for custom thank-you pages.
• Bulk action “Issue e-invoices” on the Orders list for orders completed before the store was connected.
• E-Invoice report: the month’s documents with net, VAT and gross, and a CSV export.
• Retries and delivery polling run on Action Scheduler, visible under WooCommerce → Status → Scheduled Actions; a daily digest email lists orders needing attention.
• Real-time delivery updates through a signed GoRoute webhook, connected from the settings page.
• An order edited after its invoice was issued is flagged once with the total it was issued for.

1.1.0

• Business customers. A VAT number field at checkout (block and classic) and on the order. An order with a VAT number gets a full tax invoice delivered to the buyer’s e-invoicing address over Peppol, with delivery status on the order; refunds raise a credit note to the buyer. Orders without one keep getting the simplified receipt with the Fawtara QR.
• Store default item type and classification code for business invoices, with a per-product override on the product’s General tab.
• Network lookup on the settings page: is a VAT number registered to receive e-invoices? The same check runs before every business invoice.
• A business buyer who is not on the network yet still gets an invoice: it is filed with the Tax Authority under the substitute address the Solution Architecture defines, the order shows “Reported to the Tax Authority”, and the PDF can be downloaded from the order page to send to the customer.
• Download PDF for every business invoice and credit note; credit notes show their own delivery state; a failed delivery can be retried from the order page.

1.0.3

• An order with no items or a zero total is no longer sent for invoicing; the order shows “Nothing to invoice” instead of a validation error, and nothing is retried.
• An E-Invoice column on the Orders list; the order box shows a verify link and any credit notes; a first-run notice points to the settings until the store is connected; the legal seller name and VAT number are checked on save.
• Validation refusals from the platform are shown in words rather than as raw JSON.

1.0.2

• Corrected the privacy policy URL in External Services, which returned a 404.
• Removed the bundled Arabic translation files; translations are served from translate.wordpress.org.
• The QR image is accepted only as a PNG data URI, the only form the service emits.
• Queued retry events are cleared on deactivation.

1.0.1

• Hardening for the plugin directory review: the QR is validated as an image data URI before it is ever printed, the admin QR alt text is translatable, and the retry handler’s nonce ordering is documented.
• readme: External Services states what the service returns and that nothing remote is loaded.

1.0.0

• First release: issue on payment, credit note on refund, QR on the thank-you page and in order emails, admin status box with retry, HPOS compatible.