Samir Sabri

<p><strong>TaxDebug for WooCommerce</strong> helps store owners debug, understand, trust, and report their taxes – especially when using WooCommerce Tax (automated taxes) or other tax calculation services.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<p><strong>Deep Tax Visibility</strong><br />
* See exactly how taxes were calculated for every order<br />
* View applied tax rates, line-item breakdowns, and calculation formulas<br />
* Understand which service/plugin produced each tax amount (WooCommerce Core, WooCommerce Tax, TaxJar, Avalara)</p>
<p><strong>Issue Detection Engine</strong><br />
* Automatically detect common tax problems:<br />
  * No tax collected where expected<br />
  * Tax charged in non-taxable regions<br />
  * Rate mismatches vs reference rates<br />
  * Missing local (county/city) taxes<br />
  * Tax changes between cart and checkout<br />
  * Suspected API errors</p>
<p><strong>Beautiful Dashboard & Reports</strong><br />
* Modern, responsive admin interface<br />
* Interactive charts showing tax by state, country, and over time<br />
* KPI cards for total tax, taxable sales, and effective rates<br />
* Powerful filtering by date, country, state, tax source, and more</p>
<p><strong>Order Explorer</strong><br />
* Search and filter all orders with tax data<br />
* View detailed tax debug information for any order<br />
* Identify orders with detected issues quickly</p>
<p><strong>Accountant-Friendly Exports</strong><br />
* Export summary reports by country/state<br />
* Export detailed order-level tax breakdowns<br />
* Export detected issues for review<br />
* CSV format compatible with Excel and accounting software</p>
<p><strong>Safe & Non-Intrusive</strong><br />
* Does NOT modify how taxes are calculated<br />
* Only observes, logs, and analyzes tax data<br />
* Works with any tax calculation method</p>
<p><strong>Feedback & Analytics</strong><br />
* In-app feedback widget to report false positives/negatives<br />
* Feature request and success story submissions<br />
* Privacy-first usage analytics (all data stored locally)<br />
* Deactivation survey to help improve TaxDebug<br />
* All feedback stored locally – no external tracking</p>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<p>TaxDebug works with:<br />
* WooCommerce Core tax rates<br />
* WooCommerce Tax (automated taxes via TaxJar)<br />
* TaxJar plugin<br />
* Avalara AvaTax<br />
* Other tax plugins</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.8 or higher</li>
<li>WooCommerce 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>TaxDebug stores order tax data locally in your WordPress database. This includes:<br />
* Order IDs and dates<br />
* Customer billing/shipping addresses (country, state, city, postcode only)<br />
* Order totals and tax amounts<br />
* Tax calculation details</p>
<p>TaxDebug does NOT:<br />
* Store payment information<br />
* Store full customer names or personal details beyond address location</p>
<p>Data retention can be configured in Settings. You can also manually clear all logs at any time.</p>
<h4>Feedback Collection</h4>
<p>TaxDebug collects optional feedback to improve the plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>In-app feedback</strong>: Report false positives, false negatives, feature requests, or success stories</li>
<li><strong>Usage analytics</strong>: Anonymous local tracking of which features are used</li>
<li><strong>Deactivation survey</strong>: Optional one-question survey when deactivating</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Local Storage</strong>: All feedback is always stored locally in your WordPress database.</p>
<p><strong>Optional Remote Sending</strong>: You can opt-in to send anonymous feedback to the developer to help improve TaxDebug. This is <strong>disabled by default</strong> and must be explicitly enabled in Settings.</p>
<h4>What IS Sent (When Opted-In)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Anonymous store UUID (random identifier, NOT your domain)</li>
<li>Feedback type and message</li>
<li>Your email (only if you voluntarily provide it)</li>
<li>Store country and currency</li>
<li>Active tax plugin (e.g., TaxJar, Avalara)</li>
<li>Plugin, WordPress, and WooCommerce versions</li>
<li>Daily aggregated counts: orders logged, issues detected, features used</li>
</ul>
<h4>What is NEVER Sent</h4>
<ul>
<li>Your site URL or domain name</li>
<li>Customer names, emails, or addresses</li>
<li>Order details, totals, or line items</li>
<li>Tax amounts or financial data</li>
<li>Any personally identifiable information (PII)</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to Disable Remote Sending</h4>
<p>Go to <strong>WooCommerce <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> TaxDebug <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings</strong> and turn off “Send Anonymous Feedback”. You can do this at any time. Local feedback storage will continue to work.</p>
<h3>Developer Notes</h3>
<h4>Hooks & Filters</h4>
<p>TaxDebug provides several hooks for extensibility:</p>
<p><strong>Actions:</strong><br />
* <code>taxdebug_loaded</code> – Fired when TaxDebug is fully loaded<br />
* <code>taxdebug_order_logged</code> – Fired when an order is logged (params: log_id, order_id, payload)<br />
* <code>taxdebug_installed</code> – Fired on plugin installation<br />
* <code>taxdebug_logs_cleaned_up</code> – Fired when old logs are cleaned up</p>
<p><strong>Filters:</strong><br />
* <code>taxdebug_order_payload</code> – Filter the order payload before logging<br />
* <code>taxdebug_detected_issues</code> – Add custom issue detection rules</p>
<h4>REST API Endpoints</h4>
<p>TaxDebug provides a REST API under the <code>taxdebug/v1</code> namespace:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>GET /logs</code> – Get tax logs with filtering</li>
<li><code>GET /logs/{id}</code> – Get single log</li>
<li><code>GET /logs/order/{order_id}</code> – Get log by order ID</li>
<li><code>POST /logs/reanalyze/{order_id}</code> – Re-analyze an order</li>
<li><code>GET /issues</code> – Get detected issues</li>
<li><code>GET /stats/dashboard</code> – Get dashboard statistics</li>
<li><code>GET /stats/chart/time</code> – Get time series chart data</li>
<li><code>GET /stats/chart/state</code> – Get tax by state data</li>
<li><code>GET /stats/chart/country</code> – Get tax by country data</li>
<li><code>GET /export/summary</code> – Export summary CSV</li>
<li><code>GET /export/detailed</code> – Export detailed CSV</li>
<li><code>GET /export/issues</code> – Export issues CSV</li>
</ul>
<p>All endpoints require <code>manage_woocommerce</code> capability.</p>
<h4>Database Tables</h4>
<p>TaxDebug creates two custom tables:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_logs</code> – Stores order tax log data</li>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_issues</code> – Stores detected issues</li>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_feedback</code> – Stores user feedback submissions</li>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_analytics</code> – Stores usage analytics</li>
<li><code>{prefix}taxdebug_error_logs</code> – Stores internal error logs</li>
</ul>
<h4>WP-CLI Commands</h4>
<p>(Coming in future versions)</p>


TaxDebug for WooCommerce

A tax debugging and reporting tool for WooCommerce. Debug tax issues, understand calculations, and generate audit-ready reports.

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<p>Transform tax complexity into seamless growth with automated global tax compliance. The Quaderno plugin eliminates manual tax calculations and invoice generation, ensuring your WooCommerce store stays compliant across all markets while you focus on scaling your business.</p>
<p>Selling globally shouldn’t mean drowning in tax paperwork. Quaderno handles the intricate web of international sales tax, VAT, and GST regulations automatically, so you can concentrate on what matters most: growing your business.</p>
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<h4>How it works</h4>
<p>Quaderno works behind the scenes to automatically calculate precise taxes for every sale and generate compliant invoices and credit notes, regardless of your customer’s location. Our intelligent system continuously updates with the latest tax regulations, seamlessly handling complex requirements including US sales tax, EU VAT, Canadian GST, and mandatory e-invoicing systems like Verifactu and TicketBAI.</p>
<h4>Key Benefits & Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Effortless Global Tax Compliance</strong>: Effortlessly comply with ever-changing local tax laws in countries around the world. Rest easy knowing your business is always in line with regulations.</li>
<li><strong>Proactive Tax Notifications</strong>: Get instant alerts when you become liable for taxes by surpassing a tax registration threshold worldwide. We’ll also notify you when a tax rate changes in any region where you sell.</li>
<li><strong>Real-Time, Accurate Tax Calculation</strong>: Our intelligent database instantly identifies the precise tax rate and amount based on your product and your customer’s exact location, ensuring accuracy every time.</li>
<li><strong>Instant, Comprehensive Tax Reports</strong>: Generate all the vital information you need for your tax returns at a glance. Quaderno’s intuitive dashboard provides immediate, actionable insights into your tax obligations.</li>
<li><strong>Automated E-invoicing & Credit Notes</strong>: Ditch the manual work. Professionally crafted invoices and credit notes are automatically generated and sent for every order, available in multiple languages and currencies. We also provide support for legally compliant e-invoicing and e-reporting systems, including Verifactu/VERI*FACTU and TicketBAI.</li>
<li><strong>Worldwide Registration & Filing Service</strong>: Simplify your tax obligations from end to end. We offer a comprehensive service to handle your tax registration and filing, wherever you do business.</li>
<li><strong>Customer Self-Service</strong>: Empower your customers to download their invoices and credit notes directly from their WooCommerce orders page, reducing customer service inquiries and improving their experience.</li>
</ul>


Quaderno: Global Tax & Invoicing Automation for WooCommerce

It's a useful plugin and service. The support is excellent.

The service sometimes has problems (e.g. not applying the right VAT for a few days ending up dozens of invoicing mistakes exported to Xero - a lot of manual work to fix).

There's a severe incompatibility with WooCommerce's Subscription module: when you use your WooCommerce with VAT inclusive prices, the VAT calculation is wrong as soon as a subscriber manually renews his/her subscription (e.g. after a failed automatic charge). The Quaderno support is constructive with it, and the WooCommerce Subscription plugin developers are said to work on it, but this has been reported for months now without a result).

Good service and support, but has some incompatibility

Automate global tax calculations and compliant invoicing for WooCommerce. Handle sales tax, VAT, GST worldwide with instant reports.

TaxDebug for WooCommerce vs Quaderno: Global Tax & Invoicing Automation for WooCommerce