WooCommerce Tax (formerly WooCommerce Shipping & Tax)

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 55% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Jason Houge

   8mo ago

   Works great for most cases. It auto fetches and calculates the state (US) and an additional county or city sales taxes. It also takes into account regions without taxes within states that do have tax. Customer support is friendly and helpful. It currently does not assist or support tax exempt customers (Non-Profits and B2B), particularly for admin placed orders, but hopefully it will in time!https://woocommerce.com/feature-request/tax-exemption-support/

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2. ★★★★★ indanvil

   12mo ago

   Nowhere in the description does it say the plugin depends on Jetpack, yet support informed me that it uses Jetpack’s backend services. That means I’m forced to follow Jetpack’s terms even though Jetpack isn’t installed on my site. On top of that, WooCommerce is often suggested as a good option for “high-risk” industries like CBD, alcohol, or firearms accessories, but in practice Automattic blocks exactly those merchants from using WooCommerce Tax. This makes it very difficult to actually run a store in these categories. When I asked for clarification, WooCommerce support told me I should abandon this plugin and instead go use Avalara or TaxJar. If that’s the real answer, then the dependency and restrictions should be clearly stated in the plugin description up front so merchants don’t waste their time. This topic was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by indanvil. This topic was modified 10 months, 2 weeks ago by indanvil.

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3. ★★★★★ jollygreen

   12mo ago

   Title says all. Thanks for removing this dependency. Its the best change we’ve all been waiting for.

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4. ★★★★★ casiyim

   1.1y ago

   It was reckless to update the plugin can caused error to my website, customers was so panic and they had to cancel my orders.

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5. ★★★★★ justin-bigscoots

   1.1y ago

   Releases a plugin that isn’t properly tested which causes 100s of sites to go down, cool stuff

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6. ★★★★★ timea4523

   1.4y ago

   Don’t waste your time. automated tax does not work.

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7. ★★★★★ Annonnimmo

   1.8y ago

   Automattic should stay far away from indipendent developers plugins.

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8. ★★★★★ drgonzo3000

   2.2y ago

   Plugin only allows you to pay for labels using the credit card on your wordpress account. Completely useless if business transactions are all done using a different merchant processor like Paypal. Zero thought was put into this and uninstalled it once I found this issue.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2026-08-24 Version 3.6.13 Tweak – WordPress 7.1 Compatibility. 3.6.13
2. 2026-08-10 Version 3.6.12 Fix – Restore tax rate lookups for local pickup orders, which could return no rates at all. Fix – Preserve apostrophes in city and street when taxes are recalculated from the order edit screen. Fix – Prevent a fatal erro 3.6.12
3. 2026-08-05 Version 3.6.11 Fix – Prevent a fatal error during cart and checkout tax calculation when TaxJar returns an incomplete tax response. Fix – React 19 compatibility for store notices on the block cart and checkout. 3.6.11
4. 2026-07-27 Version 3.6.10 Tweak – WooCommerce 11.0 Compatibility. 3.6.10
5. 2026-07-20 Version 3.6.9 Fix – Prevent a rare fatal error when the WooCommerce Store API cannot be initialized on incomplete installations. 3.6.9
6. 2026-07-15 Version 3.6.8 Fix – TaxJar tax lines wiped when REST API order update includes address change. Fix – Prevent fatal error on sites running WooCommerce versions without StoreApi support. Fix – Prevent unbounded growth of WooCommerce tax 3.6.8

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.5 WooCommerce Shipping & Tax <= 2.2.4 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2023-05-23 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 2.2.5 Patched in 2.2.5

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 22 languages, 7 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-07-25 600K+ → 500K+ down after 364 days in tier
2. 2025-07-26 700K+ → 600K+ down after 281 days in tier
3. 2024-10-18 800K+ → 700K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2024-10-17 700K+ → 800K+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2024-10-15 800K+ → 700K+ down after 449 days in tier
6. 2023-07-24 900K+ → 800K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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• WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.9★ · 1 shared tag B

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WooCommerce Tax (formerly WooCommerce Shipping & Tax): 500K+ active installs, 2.0★ (105 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/woocommerce-services