<h2>Overview</h2>
<p><strong>Carien Sequential Order Numbers</strong> replaces random WooCommerce order IDs with sequential, readable, and fully customizable numbers. Improve accounting clarity, streamline customer support, and stay aligned with your internal processes.</p>
<p>Provide clean, sequential, and compliant order numbers — effortlessly.</p>
<p><strong>At a glance</strong></p>
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<li>100% sequential order numbering (no unexpected gaps)</li>
<li>Custom prefix/suffix/dynamic templates (e.g. <code>{{YYYY}}-{{MM}}-{{SEQ}}</code>)</li>
<li>Automatic reset — monthly, quarterly, yearly</li>
<li>Compatible with High‑Performance Order Storage (HPOS)</li>
<li>Multilingual and RTL‑ready</li>
<li>Built for high‑volume performance</li>
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<p><strong>Perfect for</strong>: retail, logistics, B2B, click and collect, marketplaces, businesses with compliance/numbering requirements.</p>
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<h2>Why you should choose this extension</h2>
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<li><strong>Faster customer support</strong>: Easy‑to‑read order numbers improve lookups and reduce mistakes. e.g. <strong>2025‑10‑000842</strong> — simple, clear, instant.</li>
<li><strong>Better accounting and reporting</strong>: Standardized order references make exports and reconciliations easier. Add prefixes per brand, channel, or country.</li>
<li><strong>Clean operational alignment</strong>: Bring consistency across your tools: ERP, fulfillment, analytics, support.</li>
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<h2>Key features</h2>
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<li><strong>Continuous sequence</strong> — no accidental gaps in numbering</li>
<li><strong>Flexible templates</strong>:
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<li>Variables: <code>{{SEQ}}</code>, <code>{{YYYY}}</code>, <code>{{YY}}</code>, <code>{{MM}}</code>, <code>{{DD}}</code></li>
<li>Prefix/suffix per site or business need</li>
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<li><strong>Auto‑reset</strong> — monthly, quarterly, yearly, or never</li>
<li><strong>Fixed length sequence</strong> with leading zeros (<code>{{SEQ:6}}</code> → <code>000127</code>)</li>
<li><strong>Live preview</strong> before activation</li>
<li><strong>Collision‑safe</strong> even during high‑traffic peaks</li>
<li><strong>HPOS‑ready</strong> — fully compatible</li>
<li><strong>Languages included</strong> (<code>.po/.mo</code>): EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, NL, AR, HI, JA, RU, ZH…</li>
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<p><strong>Template examples</strong></p>
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<li>Year‑month + sequence: <code>{{YYYY}}-{{MM}}-{{SEQ:5}}</code> → <code>2025-10-00412</code></li>
<li>Brand code: <code>SHOP-{{SEQ:6}}</code> → <code>SHOP-000842</code></li>
<li>Date‑based: <code>{{YY}}{{MM}}{{DD}}-{{SEQ:4}}</code> → <code>251024-0083</code></li>
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Carien Sequential Order Numbers

<p>Replace random WooCommerce order IDs with clean, sequential numbering. Fully customizable formats, optional resets, and HPOS compatibility.</p>

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<li><strong>Create a marketplace that can sell anything.</strong><br />
From physical, hand-made products to digital downloads like photographs, themes, fonts, audio or video and even time-based bookings with our integration with WooCommerce Bookings.</li>
<li><strong>Continue selling your own products.</strong><br />
Display vendor products for sale right alongside your own products.</li>
<li><strong>Set vendor-specific commission rates.</strong><br />
Incentivize new vendors to join your marketplace or reward loyal or high earnings with vendor-specific commission rates – while still setting a separate base commission rate across your marketplace.</li>
<li><strong>Reduce your admin.</strong><br />
Allow vendors to manage their own products.</li>
<li><strong>Don’t pay commissions on orders that are not completed.</strong><br />
Set commissions only to be assigned to vendors once the order is completed.</li>
<li><strong>Stay on top of your marketplace with sales reports.</strong><br />
Get an overall view of vendor sales, commissions, and monthly earnings by vendor.</li>
<li><strong>Delay commission payments to account for returns.</strong><br />
Use PayPal Payouts to delay commission payments in case of returns on physical products.</li>
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<h2>Turn your store into a multi-vendor marketplace</h2>
<p>Do you have an existing site and loyal community and would like to find ways to <strong>diversify your revenue</strong>? Or would you like to start an eCommerce business without investing in creating your product line? With <strong>Product Vendors for WooCommerce</strong> you can <strong>instantly</strong> turn a Woo store into a marketplace with multiple vendors, products and payout settings.</p>
<p>Allow multiple vendors to sell via your site and, in return, take a commission on sales to cover the costs of managing the site while you focus your efforts on building a community.</p>
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<h2>Product Vendors caters for both vendors and marketplace owners with specific features that ensure:</h2>
<p><strong>Vendors</strong> can:</p>
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<li>control their public profile</li>
<li>manage their products and edit per-product shipping rules themselves</li>
<li>add private notes to orders or notes to customers (e.g. tracking numbers)</li>
<li>view their orders and reports on sales performance</li>
<li>sell physical and/or digital products as well as time-based bookings</li>
<li>receive commission payouts</li>
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<p><strong>Marketplace owners</strong> can:</p>
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<li>accept and approve applications from potential vendors</li>
<li>set up one or more vendor admins to manage vendor’s information</li>
<li>set up each vendor’s commission and payout schedule</li>
<li>integrate with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-bookings/">WooCommerce Bookings</a> to allow vendors to sell time-based bookings</li>
<li>display a vendor rating composed of the ratings of all of the products they sell</li>
<li>set products to need approval before being added to the store on a per-vendor basis</li>
<li>enable commissions on sales to be a set amount or a percentage and set this individually, per-vendor, per-product, or per-store</li>
<li>make payments to vendors instantly, manually, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly</li>
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<h3>Vendor registration form</h3>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1506416" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Product-Vendor-Registration@2x.jpg" alt="Product-Vendor-Registration@2x" width="620" height="236" /><br />
Vendors can register and/or apply by filling out a registration form expressing their interest in selling on your store and they can be accepted and approved on a per application basis.</p>
<h3>Send approval emails to vendors</h3>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1506413" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Product-Vendor-Emails@2x.jpg" alt="Product-Vendor-Emails@2x" width="620" height="236" /><br />
You can now notify potential vendors when their application has been approved with an email sent directly to their inbox.</p>
<h3>Multiple vendor settings</h3>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1506417" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Product-Vendor-Roles@2x.jpg" alt="Product-Vendor-Roles@2x" width="620" height="236" /><br />
Choose from multiple Vendor role settings including Vendor Admin (has access to all vendor settings) and Vendor Manager (limited access, can’t see sales tax or other settings).</p>
<h3>Feature rich vendor management</h3>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1506419" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Product-Vendor-Vendors@2x.jpg" alt="Product-Vendor-Vendors@2x" width="620" height="236" /><br />
Set up one or more WooCommerce users to manage the vendor’s information including profile, email address and logo.</p>
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<h3>Intuitive Commission List Management</h3>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1506412" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Product-Vendor-Commission@2x.jpg" alt="Product-Vendor-Commission@2x" width="620" height="236" /><br />
Commissions on sales can be a set amount (ex. $5 on every purchase) or a percentage (ex. 25% of each sale) — you can set this individually per-vendor, per-product, or per-store.</p>
<h3>Manage orders, shipments, and customer notes</h3>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1506418" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Product-Vendor-Shipping@2x.jpg" alt="Product-Vendor-Shipping@2x" width="620" height="236" /><br />
Product vendors have built in Per Product Shipping and the ability to add private notes or notes to customers (e.g. tracking numbers).</p>
<h3>Selectively show vendor information</h3>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1506415" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Product-Vendor-Profiles@2x.jpg" alt="Product-Vendor-Profiles@2x" width="620" height="236" /><br />
Turn your store into a real marketplace by selectively showing each vendor’s, name per product, overall rating, profile photo and profile information.</p>
<h4>Manage payout settings</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1506414" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Product-Vendor-Payouts@2x.jpg" alt="Product-Vendor-Payouts@2x" width="620" height="236" /><br />
Payments to vendors can be made, instantly (this is a per-vendor setting only and uses PayPal Payouts*), manually, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly.<br />
<em>* subject to approval by PayPal</em></p>
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Product Vendors

<p>Turn your store into a multi-vendor marketplace</p>

Carien Sequential Order Numbers vs Product Vendors