Custom Order Numbers for WooCommerce
Set Sequential order numbers in WooCommerce. Custom order number with prefixes can also be set for existing and new WooCommerce orders.
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4.2
25 ratingsWooCommerce assigns order numbers based on the WordPress post ID, which means they aren’t always sequential and can contain gaps caused by deleted posts, pages, or other content. This can make order management, accounting, customer communication, and reporting more difficult.
Custom Order Numbers for WooCommerce gives you complete control over how order numbers are generated. Create sequential order numbers, use the WooCommerce order ID, or generate pseudorandom order numbers based on a CRC32 hash. You can also add prefixes, include the order date in the order number, choose a custom starting number, and automatically reset the numbering sequence on a daily, monthly, or yearly basis.
Key Features
Generate Order Numbers in a Sequence
Choose how new order numbers are generated. Use sequential numbering, WooCommerce Order IDs, or pseudorandom (CRC32 hash) values depending on your business requirements.
Continue Your Existing Numbering Sequence
Migrating from another platform? Starting a new financial year? Choose the number you’d like WooCommerce to begin using for future orders.
Automatically Reset Order Numbers
Restart your numbering sequence automatically to match your business workflow.
You can reset order numbers:
* Daily
* Monthly
* Yearly
This is particularly useful for accounting, financial reporting, and yearly record keeping.
Add Meaningful Prefixes
Make order numbers easier to identify by adding:
* Custom text prefixes
* Order date as a prefix
For example: WEB-10025, 2026-10025
Renumber Existing Orders
Already have WooCommerce orders? Use the built-in Renumerate Orders tool to assign custom order numbers to your existing orders, creating a consistent numbering system across your store.
Search and Track Custom Order Numbers Easily
Use custom order numbers to quickly find WooCommerce orders in the admin dashboard. Customers can also track their orders through the standard WooCommerce Order Tracking page by entering their custom order number.
Compatibility With Invoice Plugins:
Custom Order Numbers plugin is compatible with all popular invoice plugins such that the invoices created by those plugins will have the custom order numbers and not the original order id. Some of those plugins are:
- WooCommerce PDF Invoices, Packing Slips, Delivery Notes & Shipping Labels
- Print Invoice & Delivery Notes for WooCommerce
- Invoices for WooCommerce
- WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips
- Booster for Woocommerce
- Challan – PDF Invoice & Packing Slip for WooCommerce
Common Use Cases
Custom Order Numbers for WooCommerce is ideal for stores that want to:
* Create sequential WooCommerce order numbers
* Continue order numbering after migrating from another ecommerce platform
* Add branded prefixes to order numbers
* Reset order numbers every month or year
* Organize orders for accounting or tax purposes
* Allow customers to track orders using custom order numbers
* Display custom order numbers on invoices and order documents
Documentation & Support
- Visit the WordPress support forums
- Check the documentation for common answers
- Try the live demo to see how the plugin works on the storefront.
If you find the plugin useful, a ⭐ 5-star rating is always appreciated — it helps other store owners discover the plugin.
Looking for More Advanced Features?
Upgrade to Custom Order Numbers for WooCommerce Pro to unlock advanced order number templates, custom suffixes, configurable order number width, conditional prefixes and suffixes, manual order number counters, and additional customization options.
See the complete Lite vs Pro comparison: https://www.tychesoftwares.com/differences-between-pro-and-lite-versions-of-custom-order-numbers-for-woocommerce-plugin/
About Tyche Softwares
Tyche Softwares has been building WooCommerce plugins since 2009, helping merchants simplify order management, delivery scheduling, pricing, checkout customization, product personalization, and other essential ecommerce workflows.
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WooCommerce uses the WordPress post ID as the order number by default. Since posts, pages, products, and orders all share the same ID sequence, order numbers often contain gaps.
Yes. Customers can use the assigned custom order number together with their billing email address on the WooCommerce Order Tracking page.
Yes. The plugin is compatible with many popular WooCommerce invoice plugins, allowing invoices to display custom order numbers instead of the default WooCommerce order ID.
When you use the Custom Order Number Lite plugin, in the Database, the original Order ID created by WooCommerce remains unchanged because that Order ID is used for many core functions and by multiple plugins and themes.
To use custom order numbers in a third-party plugin, you will have to contact the Support Team of the third-party plugin & ask them to make the necessary changes. They can do this by fetching the Order ID and using the below code for Custom Order Number.
This code has to be used in place of where the Order ID is fetched as shown below:
$custom_order_number = $order->get_order_number(); //where $order is an order object
Yes, it is possible to set the random numbers for the custom order number.
Custom Order Numbers can be set in three different ways – Sequential, Random or by Order ID.
Yes, it is possible to reset the counter number. You can reset the counter number in four different ways- daily, monthly and yearly basis.
There is also an option to set a number for reset counter value. This would mean that on every reset, the sequence will start with that particular number.
This is not possible in the Lite plugin. But using the Pro version, you can set the width of the custom order number on the settings page.
Custom Order Numbers plugin has a tool called ‘Renumerate Orders’. Using this tool, you can easily renumerate all the existing orders in a correct sequence.
This is not possible in the Lite plugin. But using the Pro version, you can add a prefix/suffix based on different user roles. For eg: guest-order for Guest user role, etc.
In Custom Order Numbers Lite plugin, in the Database, we do not change the original order id created by WooCommerce because that order id is used for many core functions and also by multiple plugins and themes.
So what you will have to do is, you will have to contact to support team of the third-party plugin and ask them to make the necessary changes. They will have to make the changes where Order ID is been fetched and have to use the below code for Custom Order Number instead of the code used for Order ID.
Here is the code they will need.
$custom_order_number = $order->get_order_number(); //where $order is an order object
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