Plugin: woocommerce-germanized (Used by 14,940 domains)

Germanized extends WooCommerce to technically match specific german legal conditions. The objective of this plugin is to adapt WooCommerce to the special requirements of german market.
Users of Germanized for WooCommerce Pro benefit from additional features, specifically designed for Germany, such as PDF invoices, model text generators for terms and revocation pages, professional support and more!

Legal certainty for WooCommerce

Germanized extends WooCommerce with typical german shop functionality: Delivery times, base prices, shipping costs and tax notices, options to attach legally relevant pages (e.g. terms, revocation page, privacy policy etc.) – even in emails, small business regulation notices and many more.
Furthermore we customized the WooCommerce checkout to make your store meet the button solution. See a list of our features for further details:

• Delivery Times – Add and edit delivery times (optionally on a per-country base) for WooCommerce products. Set a default delivery time as fallback. Disable delivery times for certain product types.
• Small Business Regulation – Show special tax notices if you are a operating a WooCommerce shop as a small business.
• Shipping Costs and Tax notices – Display notices beneath your WooCommerce product prices and within cart/checkout/e-mails.
• Base Prices – Display additional per unit prices for your products. Let unit prices be calculated automatically (Pro).
• Short Cart Product Descriptions – Display a special product description within your WooCommerce cart/checkout.
• Terms, Revocation, Privacy Policy – Display checkboxes within your checkout to make sure customers agree to your conditions.
• Legal Checkboxes UI – Adjust your legal WooCommerce checkboxes (e.g. terms & conditions) through a fluent user interface.
• Button Solution – We adjust your checkout and submit button to comply with german button solution.
• Withdrawal Button – Add a withdrawal button (EU directive 2023/2673) to your store which contains a form to let your customers conveniently place withdrawal requests.
• Sell Food (Pro) – Label your food (nutrients, ingredients, allergenic), sell deposit bottles, show the Nutri-Score.
• OSS compliance – Germanized helps your WooCommerce shop to be compliant with the new One Stop Shop procedure
• Double opt-in (DOI) for Customers – Make sure customers opted in while registering within your shop. Optionally disable checkout until the customer opted in.
• Tax Calculation for Shipping Costs and Fees – Enable split tax calculation based on your WooCommerce cart taxes.
• Legal pages in Email Templates – Attach legal pages content to certain WooCommerce e-mail templates.
• Trusted Shops Integration – Integrate your Trusted Shops Products within your WooCommerce store
• Post, DHL, UPS, DPD (Pro) and GLS (Pro) Integration – Generate labels for shipments and returns right from your backend. Offer preferred delivery services to your customers.
• Payment Gateway: SEPA direct debit – Receive payments via direct debit. We’ve added a XML export to transfer payments to your bank.
• Payment Gateway: Pay by Invoice – Allow certain customers to pay by invoice. Best integration with our PDF invoices feature (Pro).
• Online Revocation Form – Allow customers to submit revocations by filling out a form on your revocation page.
• Sale Price Labels – Prepend your WooCommerce sale prices by certain tags e.g. old price and new price.
• Photovoltaic Systems – Sell photovoltaic systems by applying the zero tax rate for customers who meet the legal requirements
• Differential Taxation – Insert special notices for products which a differential taxed.
• Used Goods and Defective Copies – Show defect descriptions on your product page and during checkout.
• WPML Support – Germanized can be used with WPML.
• REST API Support – Data added by Germanized is adjustable via the WooCommerce REST API
• Product CSV Import/Export – We’ve extended the WooCommerce product CSV import and export to support our custom fields (e.g. unit price, delivery time etc.)
• GDPR export/delete – We do support the export/delete features of WordPress 4.6 and WooCommerce 3.4 and added new checkboxes to checkout and register form.
• Invoices, E-Invoices & Packing Slips (Pro) – Conveniently create invoices, packing slips, cancellations and commercial invoices via your WooCommerce dashboard. Comes with full e-invoicing support and many automation settings.
• Legal PDF attachments (Pro) – Attach PDFs to certain email templates instead of plain text. Optionally let Germanized generate your PDFs automatically by parsing your page content.
• Delayed conclusion of contract (Pro) – By default a contract is concluded right after submitting the WooCommerce checkout. Germanized offers you to delay that contract and manually check the order before concluding the contract.
• VAT ID check for WooCommerce (Pro) – Provide additional fields within checkout, customer account and registration form to automatically validate the VAT ID based on the EU API.
• Multistep Checkout (Pro) – Transforms the single-page-checkout within WooCommerce into a multistep checkout. Support both the classic checkout and the block-based checkout.
• GPSR compliance – Add manufacturer information and safety documents to your products

Germanized for WooCommerce is certified by Trusted Shops

Germanized has been approved by Trusted Shops and therefor offers best technical conditions to operate a legally binding WooCommerce Shop in Germany.
Trusted Shops certifies Shops after selected and weighted criteria and has carefully examined our WooCommerce Plugin.
Of course Trusted Shops customers may embed their quality seals or further Trusted Shops Products as genuine Seller and Product Reviews by adapting just a few options within Germanized for WooCommerce.

Pro: WooCommerce invoices, packing slips and e-invoices

As a Pro User of Germanized you may automatically or manually create invoices to orders and packing slips and commercial invoices to shipments. Adjust your document layout by using the built-in visual document editor.
Either export your documents (CSV, zip) for your tax consultant manually or use our integrations to transmit your documents to your lexware office or sevdesk account. Comes with full support for e-invoices.
Learn more about PDF Invoices for WooCommerce

Furthermore you may attach legally relevant pages (e.g. Terms & Conditions) as PDF documents to specific WooCommerce emails instead of using plain text.

Professional shipping, returns and fulfillment solution for WooCommerce

Install our plugin Shiptastic for WooCommerce to improve shipping, returns and fulfillments in WooCommerce.
Manage your shipments and it’s statuses independently of your orders. Let your customers receive a notification email as soon as a shipment has been marked as shipped including tracking information from a built-in or manually added shipping provider.

Handle returns with ease

Managing returns can be a time-consuming challenge. By using Shiptastic for WooCommerce you might let your customers create return requests through their customer panel. All you need to do is confirm the request through your return dashboard and your customers will receive an email containing further steps on how to return their product(s).
In case you are using one of our built-in carrier integration you might as well (automatically) create a label to the return which will be attached to the email sent to the customer. Perfectly integrated with the new withdrawal button in Germanized.

Deutsche Post, DHL, UPS, DPD (Pro) and GLS (Pro) Integration

With the help of our Deutsche Post, DHL, UPS, DPD (Pro) and GLS (Pro) integration you can easily create labels to shipments and add tracking information to notification emails. Offer preferred delivery services to your customers including shipping to Packstation and/or pickup locations or choosing a drop-off location within the checkout.
You can even automate the whole label process to avoid further manual work. Learn more about the way our shipping provider integrations work.

Extended One Stop Shop compliance

With a little help from our One Stop Shop compliance plugin for WooCommerce you’ll handle the new EU VAT regulations with ease. Generate new VAT reports for different time frames and let the plugin
observe the delivery threshold automatically to make sure you’ll get notified in case you are close to reaching the threshold and need to take action.

Pro: Professional Support

Customers of Germanized for WooCommerce Pro enjoy our high-quality support via tickets. Nevertheless we also seek to offer a good plugin support via our WordPress support forum.

Tested WooCommerce Plugins

We’ve added some specific compatibility and tests for certain popular WooCommerce plugins. See this list for further details:

• WPML
• WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing
• WooCommerce Role Based Pricing
• WooCommerce Product Bundles
• WooCommerce Subscriptions
• WooCommerce Measurement Price Calculator
• Elementor

Tested WooCommerce Themes

By default, Germanized works with every WooCommerce theme. Some themes may need adjustments due to not using WooCommerce standards hooks or styles. Within our professional version we’ve tested certain third-party WooCommerce themes to ensure better compatibility with Germanized for WooCommerce:

• Flatsome
• Enfold
• Storefront
• Virtue
• Shopkeeper
• Astra
• OceanWP