This add-on helps your checkout meet German and EU legal requirements: clear “place order” wording, consent checkboxes (terms, revocation policy, newsletter), a transparent VAT breakdown, unit pricing (Grundpreis), and GDPR-compliant consent records. It’s about legal compliance, not tax math — for VAT calculation and validation see VAT Validation.

Plan: Free · Add-on: EU Compliance · Where: StoreEngine → Settings → Compliance

What you can do

• Set custom “Place Order” button text (the German Button-Lösung requirement).
• Show a VAT breakdown at cart/checkout: net total, VAT per rate, and gross total.
• Add consent checkboxes — Terms (AGB), Revocation Policy (Widerrufsbelehrung), Newsletter opt-in, and your own custom ones. Each can be required or optional and linked to a page.

• Keep a consent log — a record of every consent decision (who, when, and what they agreed to), exportable and erasable through WordPress privacy tools.
• Attach legal PDF documents (terms, revocation policy) to order emails.
• Show unit prices (Grundpreis) like “€6.00 / 1 kg” next to your prices.

Turn on EU Compliance

1. Go to StoreEngine → Add-ons.
2. Toggle on EU Compliance.
3. Configure everything at StoreEngine → Settings → Compliance.

Optional companions

• Invoice add-on — needed to attach legal PDFs to emails (skipped quietly if off).
• GDPR add-on — needed for consent logs to appear in WordPress privacy export/erase.
• GemCRM — needed to sync newsletter opt-ins to your contact list.

None of these are required for basic compliance; the add-on works without them and simply skips the extra step.

Checkout Button, VAT Transparency & Legal Documents

Go to StoreEngine → Settings → Compliance.

Checkout Button

Enter your custom wording in the Place-order button text field. This sets the label on the checkout button — for German stores use e.g. “Kostenpflichtig bestellen” to meet the Button-Lösung requirement. Leave it blank to keep the default “Place Order” text.

VAT Transparency

Toggle on Show net total + per-rate VAT breakdown on cart & checkout to display a full VAT breakdown — net total, VAT per rate, and gross total — at both the cart and checkout pages.

Legal Documents (attached to confirmation email)

Select the WordPress pages for your legal documents:

• Terms & Conditions (AGB) page — select the page from the dropdown.
• Revocation Policy (Widerrufsbelehrung) page — select the page from the dropdown.

Selected pages are rendered to PDF and attached to every order confirmation email. This requires the Invoice and Email add-ons to be active.

Click Save in the top right corner when done.

Consent Checkboxes

Scroll down on the same Settings → Compliance page to reach the Consent Checkboxes section. These checkboxes appear above the order button at checkout. Mandatory ones block the order until ticked; every decision is logged automatically — who, when, what, and how.

Each checkbox has the following fields:

• Key (unique id) — a short internal identifier (e.g. agb, widerruf, newsletter). Must be unique across all checkboxes.
• Label shown to the customer — the text the customer sees at checkout (e.g. “I accept the Terms and Conditions (AGB).”).
• Role — what the checkbox does beyond recording consent. Leave as None for standard legal checkboxes, or select Newsletter (sync opt-in to GemCRM) to push the opt-in to your GemCRM contact list when ticked.
• Linked page ID (optional) — the WordPress page ID of the relevant policy page. Customers can click to read it, and it is rendered as a PDF and attached to the order confirmation email (requires Invoice + Email add-ons).
• Display order — controls the sequence checkboxes appear at checkout. Lower numbers appear first.
• Mandatory — when on, the checkbox must be ticked before the order can be placed. An unticked mandatory checkbox blocks checkout with a clear message.
• Enabled — when off, the checkbox is hidden at checkout without being deleted.
• Remove — permanently deletes the checkbox.

Three checkboxes come pre-configured by default: agb (Terms & Conditions), widerruf (Revocation Policy), and newsletter (newsletter opt-in). Edit or remove any of these to match your store’s requirements. To add a new one, click Add Checkbox at the bottom of the section.

Click Save in the top right corner when done.

The consent log

Every time a customer accepts (or declines) a checkbox at checkout, StoreEngine records it: their email, IP address, browser, the timestamp, and whether consent was given. This works for both guests and logged-in customers.

• Export — a customer’s personal-data export (via WordPress privacy tools) includes their consent records.
• Erase — a privacy erasure anonymizes the records rather than deleting them: personal details are removed but the row remains as legal proof that consent was collected.
• (Consent records appear in WordPress privacy tools only when the GDPR add-on is active.)

Tips & best practices

• Link every consent checkbox to a real, published page — a deleted page just means no PDF/link, with no error.
• After saving settings, reload the page to confirm your toggles stuck (the form normalizes values on save).
• Keep your terms and revocation pages up to date, since they’re what customers agree to and what’s attached to emails.
• Test checkout as both a guest and a logged-in customer to confirm consent is logged for both.

Troubleshooting