Woocommerce: Create Order for Each Item WordPress

Kyle comments:

Hello, thanks for the reply

I think you are picturing the current situation which I am trying to change. As of right now, sellers may potentially have common orders because a customer pay purchase items from multiple sellers at once, on the same order.

What I am trying to do is avoid common orders by having an order created for each individual item purchased (and thus sellers would only be able to see their own orders). That way it is possible to check if each item/service is deliverable like you said, more easily because each item correlates to a unique order.

Gabriel Reguly comments:

Hmm, seems you will need an individual cart for each seller after the order is sent to checkout.

That can be confusing from a customer point of view, and even more would the customers be comfortable to pay for each seller individually?

Anyway, the solution would be:

1.extract all the cart items to a temporary place (a cart clone)
2.add back items from one seller
3.process the checkout
4.before thank you page, check if there are remaining items at the temporary place, if so then go back to 2
5.thank you page.

That way you could have orders with items grouped by seller, instead of 1 order for each item.

Regards,
Gabriel

Kyle comments:

Hmm, that is a very intersting approach, I hadn't considered the cart aspect of the equation. I will analyze this a bit to see where it leads. This is kind of like a checkout process loop, that cycles through the sellers, right? This code may be a bit above me, so I'll see if its feasible

Gabriel Reguly comments:

Hi ktrusak,

I have done some payment gateways for WooCommerce, and that was easy, far easier than doing the same payment gateways for WP-E-Commerce. So I can assure you that their code is of very good quality.

But those were not some $30 budget, hence here you only will get some hints or pointers to possible solutions.

(Your question is more a project than a question, like John already stated, albeit with another words.)

If you are comfortable with just one payment, you can break the order items into other orders just after payment using <em>woocommerce_thankyou</em> hook.

That is the most future proof solution, as you will be creating new orders by moving items from a paid order.

Actually, first I would create as many orders as the sellers in the original order and then would remove the items that are not associated with the seller of the order.

Creating orders is very straightforward, just do something like


$order_id = $this->get_request( 'order' );
$orginal_order = new WC_Order( $order_id );

$order_seller_1 = new WC_Order();
// save new order id
$order_seller_1_id = $order_seller_1->id;
// clone original order
$order_seller_1 = $orginal_order;
// restore new order id
$order_seller_1->id = $order_seller_1_id;
// remove items
.....
// rinse and repeat for all sellers

// remove original order or leave it as is for backup purposes.


There are some docs here: [[LINK href="http://wcdocs.woothemes.com/apidocs/class-WC_Order.html"]]http://wcdocs.woothemes.com/apidocs/class-WC_Order.html[[/LINK]]

Regards,
Gabriel

Kyle comments:

Hi Gabriel. Yes, I agree with you and John. This is definitely not a simple function as I had originally hoped. You guys have been a helpful.

What you are describing is very close to what I have in place right now. Instead of creating new orders as you have it I am creating 'events' and tying those into my payment gateway.


add_action( 'woocommerce_order_status_completed', 'create_new_event' );
function create_new_event($order_id) {
if ( is_user_logged_in() && class_exists('TribeEvents') )
{
global $current_user;
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();

// order object (optional but handy)
$order = new WC_Order( $order_id );

$items = get_post_meta($order_id, '_order_items', TRUE);

foreach ($items as $item) {
$meta = array();
foreach($item['item_meta'] as $meta_field)
{
$meta[$meta_field['meta_name']]=$meta_field['meta_value'];
}

$post = array(
'post_author' => $meta['Seller ID'],
'post_status' => 'pending',
'post_title' => $item['name'],
'post_type' => TribeEvents::POSTTYPE
);
$post_ID = wp_insert_post( $post );
....
....

And then there are many more lines with customer info, seller info, payment info etc. that is stored in each 'event'. Much of that code is to the credit of Hai Bui from this site on a different project for creating events from the Woocommerce Gravity Forms add-on.

Gabriel Reguly comments:

Hi ktrusak,

I wonder if is the function that is not being called or the order note that is not being added?

For the later, that is the correct code:


add_action( 'transition_post_status', 'add_woo_order_comment', 10, 3);

function add_woo_order_comment($new_status, $old_status, $post){
if ( in_array($post->post_type, 'event')){
$woo_order = get_post_meta(post->ID, 'wpcf-order-number', true);
$order = new WC_Order( $woo_order );
$order->add_order_note(sprintf(__('Item #% status changed', 'woothemes'), post->ID));
}
}


Regards,
Gabriel

Kyle comments:

Thanks for the reply,

I think the problem is with the function I've set up all together. It breaks my site (white screen)

Gabriel Reguly comments:

Sorry to hear that, good luck with it.