Iberian + Brazilian cross-border, multi-store Magento PT + ES + BR?
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Magento Developer Portugal
Magento’s multi-store architecture handles PT + ES + BR cleanly because all three share Romance-language proximity but have radically different tax/payment/legal regimes:
- Single Magento backend, 3 stores, one for PT, one for ES, one for BR. Shared catalogue, separate URLs (yourbrand.pt / yourbrand.es / yourbrand.com.br) or one domain with country selector.
- Per-store currency, EUR for PT + ES, BRL for BR. Magento
currency_symbol+ auto-rate update from XE / OXR. - Per-store tax, PT IVA 23%, ES IVA 21%, BR has ICMS + IPI + PIS/COFINS (state + federal, ~17-19% effective). BR requires a completely different tax engine, we usually integrate Avalara Brazil or TaxWeb.
- Per-store invoice, SAFT-PT for PT (mandatory since 2013), SII for ES (mandatory since 2017 for > €6M), NF-e for BR (mandatory). Three different e-invoice pipelines.
- Per-store payment, PT (MB WAY + Multibanco), ES (Bizum + cards), BR (PIX + boleto + Mercado Pago).
- Per-store legal, LPDP (PT) + AEPD (ES) + LGPD (BR). Three privacy regimes.
180M+ Lusophone speakers across PT + BR + Angola + Mozambique. Architecture decided in the audit step.
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