Customizing the VAT PDF invoices template

Hi Stefaan

The VAT template file is a template file and follows the EDD templating rules. In case you have not modified EDD templates before, you need to create a folder under your theme folder (under your theme’s child folder if you have used one) and call the new folder ‘edd_templates’. You can then copy any of the files from the EDD ‘templates’ folder or from the VAT plugin ‘templates’ folder in this folder. EDD and the VAT plugin will use template files in the ‘edd_templates’ folder in preference to the original folder. In this way you are able to make update safe changes to the template files.

Most of the text in the VAT template references the PDF Invoices plugin domain. So it will be the .po/.mo files of the PDF Invoices plugin you will need to change.

This is a good time to ask you to read this post: ‘Grab a copy of the extras’. This reviews the ‘extras’ plugin which includes an example of adding the buyer’s address to an invoice.

You will see on line 251 of the template that word ‘tax’ is replaced with the word from the translation file. So if you enter ‘Tax number’ you will see ‘BTW number’. If you need this default behaviour to be different, this is the line to change.

Regards

Bill