German VAT Update

As of midnight tonight, Germany is reducing their VAT rates from 19% to 16% and 7% to 5% on the reduced rate. That will be in effect until the end of December as an economic relief measure. If you're selling to German customers, you may need to take some action.

Sterc's Extras will be free from August 1st

After selling premium extras via modmore (and modstore) for the past few years, Sterc has decided to refocus their energy on their core business of creating awesome websites and applications with MODX. This means that their currently-premium extras (Digital Signage, Formalicious, SEOSuite, and VerifyLogin) will become free to use on August 1st, 2020.

Critical Commerce update for EU VAT users

If you sell to customers in the European Union, there's a good chance you've set that up with the built-in EU VAT module. That module uses a service to provide you with up-to-date tax rates for all countries in the EU. ?Last night, that service was suddenly shut down. To avoid issues, you need to update Commerce to 1.1.4 or 1.0.4 right away.