<h1>Customize Order Numbers</h1>
The Custom Order Number extension enables you to replace default order numbers with custom order numbers.
Custom numbers may be more meaningful to your customers or add to your stores’ operational efficiency. The Custom Order Number extension also helps you keep business information private. Default order numbers may allow others to estimate your store’s sales volume.
Instead of offering just pre-fix and post-fix, the extension enables you to customize your order number by using an open field where you can add text, symbols, and variables. You can use up to eleven different variables to customize the order number. Variables include date, day, year, random number, sequential counter and more.
For example, you can replace the default order number 1343 with something like WOO-09134334 where WOO is the brand name added as text, 09 is the month, 1343 is the default order number and 34 is a 2-digit random number.
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable the custom counter at any time</li>
<li>Use the open text field to customize order numbers with variables</li>
<li>Use up to 11 variables to customize order numbers</li>
<li>Variables include a sequential counter, customized start, interval, rest time, and length</li>
</ul>
Customizing order numbers
Using an open field, you can customize order numbers with letters, words, digits, special characters, symbols, and predefined variables.
As soon as you start adding variables, customization options will appear. For example, when you add {counter}, the settings related to counter will appear. You will be able to customize counter start, interval rest and other details.
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<h2>Order variables</h2>
You can choose from the following 11 variables to customize your store’s order numbers.
<ul>
<li>Random number</li>
<li>Random letter</li>
<li>Random alphanumeric</li>
<li>Counter</li>
<li>Default Order ID</li>
<li>Year</li>
<li>Year short form</li>
<li>Month</li>
<li>Week</li>
<li>Day of the week</li>
<li>Current day</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Requirements</h3>
Minimum PHP version: 5.2

Custom Order Number

The Custom Order Number extension enables you to replace default order numbers with custom order numbers.

The Clone Orders extension adds functionality for duplicating orders to streamline the process of adding similar orders quickly.
<h3>Use Cases</h3>
Having the power to duplicate orders lets you to build efficient processes and handle customer requests more quickly. This includes scenarios such as:
<ul>
<li>Handling exchanges for customers: Refund the returned items on the original order, clone to a new empty order, and add the exchanged item. You can then follow your usual order fulfillment process with the new order and your reporting will still be accurate.</li>
<li>Manually inserting the same (or a similar) order for multiple customers: Create it once, then clone as many times as needed, just updating the customer details as required.</li>
<li>Receiving repeat purchase orders from existing customers: Duplicate their last order and update as required to speed up an otherwise slow and tedious process.</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_6508405" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6508405" style="width: 845px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-6508405 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/clone-button-screenshot-closeup.png" alt="Clone button in order interface" width="845" height="153" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6508405" class="wp-caption-text">Click the clone order button to create a copy.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_6503563" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6503563" style="width: 914px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-6503563 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/clone-modal-screenshot-closeup.png" alt="Clone modal with option to include line items" width="914" height="623" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6503563" class="wp-caption-text">Optionally select whether to include line items in the clone, or keep it empty.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_6496734" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6496734" style="width: 929px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-6496734 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/clone-buttons.png" alt="Order listing screen with clone action buttons" width="929" height="459" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6496734" class="wp-caption-text">Initiate a clone straight from the order listing screen.</figcaption></figure>
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With the Clone Orders extension, accelerate your existing processes: handle exchanges efficiently and manually input repeat orders quickly. Streamlined processes save precious time — and help to deliver a positive customer experience.

Clone Orders

Make copies of existing orders to quickly insert similar orders

Custom Order Number vs Clone Orders