Plugin Description
Get Professionally Formatted Order Numbers for your WooCommerce Store
The WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers Pro plugin allows your store to have sequential, rather than random order numbers. Additionally you can customize your order numbers by setting a starting number, number length and custom prefix and postfix. Instead of your order numbers skipping values (like 15, 37, etc), they could be for instance WT-01000-UK, WT-01001-UK, etc, or whatever format you prefer.
Question
James –
When you save an order no matter what status, it regenerates a new order number. You forgot to set the “update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘_order_number’);”, so when it checks on order save for this value, its not there and generates a new number!!
You should fix this ASAP
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James –
Need to add this in the “set_sequential_order_number function”
Line: 328
} else {
// normal operationadd --->> update_post_meta( $post_id, '_order_number', $post_id );
// normal operation
$this->generate_sequential_order_number( $post_id, '_order_number', get_option( 'woocommerce_order_number_start' ), $this->get_order_number_prefix(), $this->get_order_number_suffix(), $this->get_order_number_length() );
}
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Beka Rice –
Hey James, this is not necessary. The function to generate a sequential number inserts that meta with the SQL
INSERT— see line 367 onwards 🙂 I’m afraid I can’t replicate any issues with this as both meta keys are set correctly for each order, and are never changed upon save. If you do see other issues, please open a thread with the help desk and we’d be happy to look into it!(0) (0)
Aleksander Soltvedt –
The plugin does what it says, however there is a few “bugs” that needs to be fixed ASAP, f.ex cancelled orders will get theyr own numbers, for us it would been best for our accounting manager to get the approved/payed orders only. Please give this some priority!
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Beka Rice –
Hey Aleksander, thanks for the rating! What you’re describing with cancelled orders is actually intentional rather than a bug. As there’s no way to know an order will be cancelled when it’s placed, it needs to be assigned a sequential order number under the assumption that it’s a valid order. Once the order has been marked as ‘cancelled’, then there’s no way to go back and change the order number, especially if new orders have been placed, without messing up the order sequence.
If this is from unpaid orders, you can also turn off the setting that cancels unpaid orders under WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Inventory by leaving “Hold Stock (minutes)” to blank.
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