Order number prefix for WooCommerce vs Sequential Order Numbers for WooCommerce

Order number prefix for WooCommerce is a lightweight plugin that allows you to add custom prefixes to your WooCommerce order numbers. Perfect for stores that need to organize orders by year, location, or brand, or simply want to add their company initials to order numbers. Key Features Customizable Prefix: Add any prefix to your order numbers (alphanumeric, hyphens, and underscores supported) Easy Configuration: Simple settings integration with WooCommerce general settings Search Compatible: Search for orders using either the original order ID or the prefixed version HPOS Compatible: Full support for WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage Lightweight: Minimal performance impact with efficient code Secure: Built with WordPress and WooCommerce security best practices Translation Ready: Full internationalization support Use Cases Multi-brand Stores: Use different prefixes for different brands (BRAND1-, BRAND2-) Year-based Organization: Add year prefixes (2024-, 2025-) Location-based Prefixes: Identify orders by location (NYC-, LA-, UK-) Company Branding: Add your company initials to all orders Department Organization: Separate B2B and B2C orders (B2B-, B2C-) How It Works Install and activate the plugin Navigate to WooCommerce > Settings > General Find the “Order Number Prefix” field Enter your desired prefix (e.g., “WC-“, “2024-“, “SHOP-“) Save your settings All new and existing orders will display with your chosen prefix throughout the WooCommerce admin area, customer emails, and order pages. Technical Details Stores prefix as a separate option, doesn’t modify actual order IDs Compatible with other WooCommerce extensions Follows WordPress coding standards Implements proper sanitization and escaping Supports WooCommerce order searches with prefixed numbers Requirements WordPress 5.0 or higher WooCommerce 3.0 or higher PHP 7.2 or higher Additional Information Contributing Development of this plugin happens on GitHub. Feel free to contribute: https://github.com/maikunari/order-number-prefix-for-woocommerce Privacy Policy This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. It only modifies the display of order numbers within your WooCommerce installation. Credits Developed by Mike Sewell at SonicPixel Built for the WooCommerce community Support For bug reports and feature requests [github] https://github.com/maikunari/order-number-prefix-for-woocommerce. For premium support and custom development, visit SonicPixel. License This plugin is licensed under the GPL v2 or later. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Om Namo Bhagavate Vadudevaya

This plugin extends WooCommerce by automatically setting sequential order numbers for new orders. If there are existing orders at the time of installation, the sequential order numbers will start with the highest current order number. This plugin requires WooCommerce 3.9.4 or newer. No configuration needed! The plugin is so easy to use, there aren’t even any settings. Activate it, and orders will automatically become sequential. If you have no orders in your store, your orders will begin counting from order number 1. If you have existing orders, the count will pick up from your highest order number. If you’ve placed test orders, you must trash and permanently delete them to begin ordering at “1” (trashed orders have to be counted in case they’re restored, so they need to be gone completely). Support Details We do support our free plugins and extensions, but please understand that support for premium products takes priority. We typically check the forums every few days (usually with a maximum delay of one week). Sequential Order Numbers Pro If you like this plugin, but are looking for the ability to set the starting number, or to add a custom prefix/suffix to your order numbers (ie, you’d prefer something like WT101UK, WT102UK, etc) please consider our premium Sequential Order Numbers Pro for WooCommerce plugin, which is available in the WooCommerce Store. More Details See the product page for full details. Check out the Pro Version. View more of SkyVerge’s free WooCommerce extensions View all SkyVerge WooCommerce extensions Interested in contributing? You can find the project on GitHub and contributions are welcome 🙂 If you’d like to make your payment gateway compatible with Sequential Order Numbers, or other plugins that filter the order number, please make one small change. Instead of referencing $order->id when storing order data, reference: $order->get_order_number() This is compatible with WooCommerce core by default, as the order number is typically equal to the order ID. However, this will also let you be compatible with plugins such as ours, as the order number can be filtered (which is what we do to make it sequential), so using order number is preferred. Some other notes to help developers: Get an order from order number If you want to access the order based on the sequential order number, you can do so with a helper method: $order_id = wc_sequential_order_numbers()->find_order_by_order_number( $order_number ); This will give you the order’s ID (post ID), and you can get the order object from this. Get the order number If you have access to the order ID or order object, you can easily get the sequential order number based on WooCommerce core functions. $order = wc_get_order( $order_id ); $order_number = $order->get_order_number();