Magento – VAT validation for Not-Logged-in Customers or Guests

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I'm working on this requirement from my EU client. We are on Magento 1.9.1
We have set up VAT validation and auto-group change based for valid and invalid VAT IDs and its working fine.

Now the twist is, we want to validate VAT for customers who are not logged in and move them to a customer group say "Not-Logged-in-Valid-VAT"

Is it possible to assign guest to a customer group since guest is not actually a full customer entity ? Is it possible to replicate the concept of Not-Logged-in customer group ?

Best Answer

Putting no customer in a customer group doesn't make sense at all :-)

But the whole VAT thing afaik is based on the customer group and what you might do is, fake this.

Save the VAT to the session, validate it beforehand. Then when the check is done, make sure that Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroup() returns your desired value. Either by rewriting it, or better by setting the customer group. But I'm not sure, whether there is always an empty customer object, which can be misused.

Good luck. Tell me how it works, I think I have to do the same soon.

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Magento Invoice PDF – Display ‘VAT Shifted’

The solution I found was as follows. In Abstract.php I used var_dump($order) with a die(), and looking for the vat amount of that particular order I found that $order["base_tax_amount"] held the correct value. So based on that, whether it's 0 or not, I display a message in the PDF.

Magento – New customers in wrong group with valid VAT id

Try to go to checkout/onepage.html:

For testing purposes add code:

    <?php 
    if(Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn()){
    // Get group Id 
        $customerGroup = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId();                          
        switch($customerGroup) { //Check if user VIES validation was successfull
            case 16: 
                $htmlMessage='<div style="margin-top: 20px;">';
                $vatMessage='';
                break;
            case 22: 
                $htmlMessage='<div class="alert alert-success sucess fade-in" style="margin-top: 20px;">';
                $vatMessage='Your VIES VAT Number has been verified. 0% tax rate applied.';
                break;
            case 23:
                $htmlMessage='<div class="alert alert-warning warning fade-in" style="margin-top: 20px;">';
                $vatMessage='There was an error during validation of your UE VAT Number. Probably the VIES verification services are currently unavailable. Normal tax rate has been applied.';
                break;
            case 24:
                $htmlMessage='<div class="alert alert-error error fade-in" style="margin-top: 20px;">';
                $vatMessage='Your UE VAT Number is invalid! Please verify your account information and contact our customer support.';
                break;
        } ?>

<?php if(Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn()){
   //Get group Id - for testing purpose
      $groupId = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId();
  //Get customer Group name - for testing purpose
      $group = Mage::getModel('customer/group')->load($groupId);
      echo  $groupId = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId();
      echo $group->getCode(); } ?>
     <?php echo $htmlMessage;  ?>
     <?php echo $this->__($vatMessage); ?>
     <?php echo '</div>'; ?>
     <?php }    ?>

Now try to change into valid and invalid vat id. You will see that after editing customer account when he gets into checkout page he's assigned to right customer group. Im currently thinking of solution to validate vies vat number on customer logging in. It has to be related to the observer that's triggering vat validation – when it is triggered.

Did you setup Validation on Each Transaction?

Check my question (as it is 100% same behaviour): maybe we can think of something together. Automatic Customer Group change based on VAT-ID: Force Magento to check and display message when customer gets to checkout page

Best Answer

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