Disability VAT relief
If you sell products where, under certain circumstances, the customer (or end-user of the product) is not required to pay VAT on the price of the product because of a disability, you can mark those products as eligible for . Read more about VAT relief on HMRC's website.
The VAT relief feature includes functionality to:
- Mark products in your ShopWired account as eligible for VAT relief
- Display an indicator on your website on products eligible for VAT relief
- Allow customers to claim VAT relief on eligible products on your website's shopping basket page
- Ask customers a series of questions to confirm their eligibility and store this information on the order
To use the VAT relief feature you'll first need to install the VAT features app.
Marking products as eligible for VAT relief
Marking products as eligible for VAT relief
When creating or editing a product, in the Product pricing section use the setting labelled The product is eligible for VAT relief to mark a product as eligible.
You can use the VAT Relief column on the product import system by entering the value Yes or 1 for products that are eligible.
Enabling VAT relief on admin orders
Enabling VAT relief on admin orders
When creating an order in your ShopWired account, use the enable VAT relief option to mark the order as eligible for VAT relief. VAT will be automatically removed from eligible products.
Website theme changes
Website theme changes
ShopWired themes do not have the necessary code for the VAT relief functionality installed by default, and therefore code needs to be added to your website's theme files to support the functionality.
Displaying an indicator on products eligible for VAT relief
To display an indicator on products eligible for VAT relief use the variable product.eligible_for_vat_relief. This will return true for products that you have indicated are eligible.
Allowing visitors to claim eligibility for VAT relief
Visitors to your website need to be able to claim eligibility for VAT relief.
VAT can be removed from eligible products in a basket of goods by making a post request to /checkout/basket/vat-relief where the enable parameter on the request is set to 1.
By default, the visitor will be redirected to the home page after the post request is submitted, so you should use the redirect parameter to set the destination URL to /checkout/basket so that they remain on your website's shopping basket page. Alternatively, use the ajax parameter and set it to 1. Doing so will return a JSON response instead of redirecting. The response has a single property of success which will return true.
The recommended implementation is to ask the visitor a series of questions to assess their eligibility for VAT relief before allowing them to claim it. The answers to these questions can then be stored on the order (available for you to view on the order information in your ShopWired account). The questions and answers can be stored on the order using a hidden input on the basket form with the name basket_comments.
