RomCommerce

RomCommerce is a modular set of tools that adapt WooCommerce for the Romanian market. Instead of installing a dozen small single-purpose plugins, you enable only the modules you need from one coherent system. Every module is optional and every module is fully functional in this free version.

Important: RomCommerce provides tools that help you meet Romanian e-commerce obligations. It does not, and cannot, guarantee that your shop is legally compliant. That always depends on how your shop is set up and operated. Treat the compliance-related modules as assistance, not as a certificate.

What’s included

Compliance & legal helpers

• SAL pictogram: displays the official ANPC SAL pictogram on your homepage, linking to the SAL dispute-resolution platform.
• EU legal guarantee notice: displays the official EU-harmonised notice on the legal guarantee of conformity (mandatory EU-wide from 27 September 2026), plus an optional EU GARAN label for products with a qualifying producer durability guarantee.
• Price history (Omnibus): logs every price change, shows the lowest price from the 30 days before a reduction next to the sale price, and crosses out that price instead of the regular price, to support the EU Omnibus Directive.
• PF/PJ billing fields: individual-vs-company billing fields at checkout, written where the Romanian invoicing-plugin ecosystem (SmartBill, Oblio, EasySales) reads them.
• VAT ID validation: CUI/CIF format and checksum validation at checkout.
• Related-orders finder (MAOF): flags a customer’s possibly-related orders and duplicate active orders for staff review. Decision support only: it never cancels, blocks, or blacklists anyone.
• Reviewer name privacy: shows product reviewers’ names on the storefront as the first name plus initials (“Maria E. I.”), trimmed before the page is sent, so the full name never reaches visitors.

Checkout & billing

• Counties & postcodes: Romanian county data plus 6-digit postcode validation at checkout.
• EU VAT rates import: imports the VAT rates of the EU countries you pick (standard, reduced, super-reduced and parking) into WooCommerce’s tax tables, for cross-border sales under OSS. The rates ship with the plugin; only rows it created are ever updated.
• Phone validation: checks billing and shipping phone numbers against international numbering data, with a country picker on the classic checkout. Works offline: the numbering data ships with the plugin.
• Hide voucher at checkout: removes the coupon field so shoppers don’t leave to hunt for a code.
• Multiple delivery addresses: lets customers save more than one delivery address on their account.

Orders & reports

• Weekly store report: an email on the day and hour you choose with your orders by status (including on-hold and custom statuses), sales and average order value, top 5 products and categories, each payment method’s share of orders (top 3, the rest grouped) and, with WooCommerce’s order attribution, the top channels and campaigns. Every section optionally compared with the previous week, the same week last month or the same week last year. Totals only, no customer details.
• Payment method filter: a payment method dropdown on the WooCommerce orders list, next to the date and customer filters.

Storefront & merchandising

• Free shipping bar: a “spend X more for free shipping” progress indicator.
• Perks shop: trust and service badges (delivery, returns, secure payment) under Add to Cart, and a payment-methods widget for the footer, both also available as shortcodes.
• Sale category sync: keeps a chosen product category populated with everything currently on sale.
• Recommended retail price (PRP): an optional manufacturer’s recommended price per product and variation, shown on the product page as a separate labelled line, never crossed out.
• Related products: rule-based control over the related-products block.
• Frequently bought together: products you pick per product, shown as a bundle with the combined price and one button that adds them all to the cart.
• Availability sorting: moves out-of-stock products to the end of shop, category and search listings, keeping your sort order (default or the shopper’s choice) within in-stock and out-of-stock products. Optionally moves products on backorder too.
• Reviews showcase: recent product reviews from across your store as a grid on the shop page, or anywhere with a shortcode; minimum rating and verified-buyers filters, your own colours, card shape and the order of each card’s items.
• Multi-product review page: one page where a customer reviews every product from a past order at once.
• Floating contact FAB: a floating multi-channel contact button with a contextual WhatsApp link, plus an optional WhatsApp button under Add to Cart.
• Clear cart: a one-click “empty cart” action.
• Google Merchant Center widget: Google’s store widget with your Merchant Center store rating, as a corner badge, and optionally Google Customer Reviews’ survey opt-in on the order confirmation page. Requires a Merchant Center account with this website claimed and verified.
• Coupon cleanup: automatically moves expired coupons to the trash every day, with an optional setting to permanently empty the coupon trash after a set number of days.

Admin & branding

• Show some love (optional): a small “Magazin realizat cu RomCommerce” credit in your site footer. Off unless you switch it on.
• Admin & login branding: replaces the WordPress logo on the login screen with your site logo, and applies one brand colour across wp-admin, the login screen, and buttons.

RomCommerce Pro

A separate RomCommerce Pro plugin (sold separately, not installed from here) adds advanced modules such as live VIES VAT validation, phone numbering data and VAT rate updates between releases, email validation, postcode-based address autocomplete, one-click order confirmation, pickup workflows, and a compliance checklist. RomCommerce Lite is complete on its own. Pro is optional.

External services

RomCommerce’s own server-side code makes no external network requests and sends no data to any third party. The SAL pictogram, the EU legal guarantee notice/GARAN label, and the WhatsApp contact buttons are ordinary outbound links your visitors choose to click.

One module, off by default, loads third-party services in your visitors’ browsers:

• Google Merchant Center widget (Google Merchant Center store widget, provided by Google LLC). Only when you enable this module, every visitor’s browser loads https://www.gstatic.com/shopping/merchant/merchantwidget.js from Google on each page, and the script shows your store’s rating from Google. Google receives the request as from any page that loads a Google-hosted file (including the visitor’s IP address, browser details and the page address). The plugin itself sends nothing to Google. Google Terms of Service, Google Privacy Policy.
• Google Customer Reviews survey opt-in (part of the same module, provided by Google LLC). Only when you switch it on, and only on the order confirmation page shown right after an order, the customer’s browser loads https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js and Google’s dialog asks whether they want a survey by e-mail after delivery. To show it, the browser sends Google the order number, the customer’s e-mail address, the delivery country, the estimated delivery date and the products’ GTINs (when set). The plugin’s server sends nothing. Google Customer Reviews Terms of Service, Google Privacy Policy.

Third-party libraries

• intl-tel-input (MIT, https://github.com/jackocnr/intl-tel-input), bundled in assets/lib/intl-tel-input for phone validation. Its validation part is compiled from Google’s libphonenumber (Apache-2.0, https://github.com/google/libphonenumber); the human-readable source of both is at those links.