Vape Duty Manager for WooCommerce

UK Vaping Products Duty starts on 1 October 2026. Vape Duty Manager lets you prepare product pricing in advance and schedule the change to go live on that date.

The current rate is 22p per ml — £2.20 per 10ml of vaping liquid. VAT is then charged on the duty-inclusive taxable amount through your normal WooCommerce tax settings.

No. WooCommerce tax classes are designed for percentage-based taxes such as VAT. Vaping Products Duty is calculated from liquid volume, so a fixed amount per millilitre — not a percentage of the product price.

Free allows plugin-managed duty pricing on up to 100 duty-applied SKUs at a time. If you are at the cap, you cannot apply duty to additional products until you remove duty from some existing ones or upgrade to Pro. If a single apply scope contains 101 or more eligible SKUs, apply and schedule are blocked — Free does not apply only the first 100. You can still preview any scope and manually edit prices in WooCommerce.

Yes. Every calculate run is a dry run. You review the full preview table, summary counts and readiness checklist before apply or schedule is available.

Yes. You can schedule approved duty pricing to go live automatically on 1 October 2026 within the Free edition's 100 duty-applied SKU limit. Larger catalogues will need Vape Duty Manager Pro, which is coming soon.

Yes. Each purchasable variation is evaluated individually when volumes differ. Sale prices stay as sale prices — duty is applied to both regular and sale prices without converting a sale back to a regular price.

Yes. The plugin respects each product's tax status, tax class and your WooCommerce tax configuration. It supports VAT-inclusive and VAT-exclusive catalogue pricing. Duty is added to the ex-VAT price, and WooCommerce calculates VAT on the duty-inclusive amount.

Yes. Rollback restores prices from immediately before one completed batch. Remove Vape Duty restores saved base prices catalogue-wide. Both require preview and typed confirmation.

No. The full Audit area — including sales and duty reports, activity log, refund duty review, transition stock and duty responsibility views — is Pro only. Free includes batch history, price history and order-line duty snapshots.

Classic cart and checkout templates are supported in Free. Live duty totals in Cart and Checkout Blocks will be part of Vape Duty Manager Pro, which is coming soon.

A Pro-only operating profile for businesses that manufacture vape products rather than only retailing them. It changes default duty-responsibility behaviour, guidance copy and how reporting presents retailer-accountable vs upstream-paid amounts. Free uses Retailer mode only.

Vaping liquids subject to Vaping Products Duty include 0mg products. Hardware and other non-liquid products are not liable and do not count towards the Free edition's duty-applied SKU limit.

No. Vape Duty Manager is an operational WooCommerce tool. It helps you calculate and apply duty-inclusive prices and keep internal records. It does not prepare, validate or submit returns to HMRC.

Product data, prices, sales information and plugin records remain on your WordPress installation in the current release. No licence server, telemetry endpoint or cloud database is contacted.

Not yet. Vape Duty Manager Pro is currently coming soon. The Free edition contains the core calculation and pricing workflow, while Pro will add unlimited duty-applied SKUs and the advanced Audit, reporting and transition-stock features shown on this page.

WordPress 6.5+, WooCommerce 8.0+, PHP 8.1+, single-site WordPress (multisite not supported). You need WooCommerce management access (manage_woocommerce capability).