Verpackungsmengen für LUCID (VerpackG) for WooCommerce

Verpackungsmengen für LUCID (VerpackG) is a WooCommerce module for the German market: it works out the packaging weight of every order by LUCID material type and produces a ready Mengenmeldung, which the seller enters into LUCID and the dual system’s dashboard.

Why the store needs this

Anyone shipping packaged goods to Germany must report packaging weight — from the very first parcel. In practice this weight is usually worked out in Excel from memory: how much that carton weighed and how many went out over the year. The module takes the figure straight from orders.

Packaging profiles

A profile is packaging with a weight for each material: “Karton M” = 320 g of paper plus 12 g of plastic for tape. A profile is attached to a product, a category (in Pro), or set separately for the shipment itself. Changed the carton? Edit the profile, not hundreds of product cards.

The material types are the same as in LUCID: glass; paper, cardboard; ferrous metals; aluminium; plastic; beverage cartons; other composites; other materials.

Report and CSV

Pick a period and get a table by material type in kilograms to three decimal places, plus the order count, so you can see straight away whether the figure is even plausible. In Pro the same report exports to CSV, which German Excel opens without complaint.

Who actually needs this

If you sell into Germany, you’re required to register with LUCID and file a Mengenmeldung annually (or quarterly, for large volumes): how many kilograms of packaging of which material type you put on the market.

The problem isn’t the report itself, but where the figures come from. The typical route is opening Excel at year-end and guessing from memory how many boxes, how much film and filler there were. It’s slow, it doesn’t match reality, and the responsibility for the figures is yours.

The snapshot is the key detail

The module doesn’t calculate the report “on the fly” from current profiles. It stores the result at the moment of the order.

This matters: if you switched to a lighter box in March and changed the profile, February’s orders must stay calculated with the old box. A module that recalculates retroactively from current profiles quietly rewrites reporting you’ve already filed — and the discrepancy surfaces during an audit, not in your admin.

What the admin gets

A dedicated packaging profiles screen: name, weight in grams across the eight types. Then profile assignment to products, and in Pro to categories too, so you don’t have to set thousands of items by hand.

The shipment’s own packaging (box, tape, filler) is counted either once per order or per line item — depending on how you actually pack.

The report shows kilograms to three decimal places, with the order count next to it that the figure is built from. This lets you sanity-check the result without opening the database.

What the module doesn’t do

It doesn’t file the report for you and has no LUCID integration: filing stays your action in the dashboard. The module covers exactly the part that’s impossible to do accurately by hand — tracking grams per order over a period.

It also doesn’t invent weights. If profiles are described roughly, the report will be exactly as accurate as the profiles are.

Free version and Pro

Pro lifts the limit on the number of profiles and on the report period (any period and whole years), and adds category-level profiles (one action instead of a thousand), CSV report export and backfilling of existing orders.

Under the hood

The packaging snapshot is written to the module’s own table, linked to the order, so it survives a theme change, WooCommerce updates and the move to HPOS. The report is built by querying this table over a date range, with no nightly cron jobs.

The material types are hard-coded to exactly the eight from the LUCID form — the module doesn’t let you invent your own, because that would make the report unfileable.

How to install

1. Upload the archive under “Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin” and activate it.

2. WooCommerce → Verpackung — describe the packaging profiles you actually use.

3. Assign profiles to products (to categories in Pro) and set the shipment profile.

4. Place a test order and check that its packaging snapshot appears.

5. WooCommerce → Mengenmeldung — pick a period and check the kilograms.