<h1>Customize Order Numbers</h1>
<p>The <strong>Custom Order Number</strong> extension enables you to replace default order numbers with custom order numbers.</p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Custom numbers may be more meaningful to your customers or add to your stores’ operational efficiency. The <strong>Custom Order Number</strong> extension also helps you keep business information private. Default order numbers may allow others to estimate your store’s sales volume.</span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2><strong>Features</strong></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>
<p><strong>Customizing order numbers</strong></p>
<p>Using an open field, you can customize order numbers with letters, words, digits, special characters, symbols, and predefined variables.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8572709" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Custom-Order-Number-Settings-2.png" alt="" width="980" height="460" /></p>
<h2>Order variables</h2>
<p>You can choose from the following 11 variables to customize your store’s order numbers.</p>
<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>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8572708" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Description-Tags.jpg" alt="" width="980" height="882" /></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.2</p>
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Custom Order Number

<p>The <strong>Custom Order Number</strong> extension enables you to replace default order numbers with custom order numbers.</p>

<p>The Merge Orders extension allows you to combine multiple customer orders so you can process and ship them as one.</p>
<h3>Why merge orders?</h3>
<p>The most common scenario for needing to merge orders is when you receive multiple orders for the same customer. Merging and shipping them as one package provides multiple benefits, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Reducing costs on shipping and packaging—better for you, and better for the planet!</li>
<li>Streamlining order processing and putting the tracking in one place.</li>
<li>Improving customer experience—they only have to track one delivery, and they receive everything they ordered at the same time.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to merge:</h3>
<p>Start by clicking the Merge Order button</p>
<p><img class="wp-image-6795700 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/merge-button-cropped.png" alt="Merge order button" width="972" height="178" /></p>
<p>Choose the orders you want to add to the merge.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8950948" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/merge-dialog-search.png" alt="Merge order dialog" width="980" height="629" /></p>
<p>Then just complete the merge.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8950959" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/merge-dialog-complete.png" alt="Complete merge" width="980" height="606" /></p>
<p>The power to merge orders is a tool for improving your administrative workflow. Streamline order processing, save on shipping and packaging, reduce your environmental impact, and, most importantly, make your customers happy!</p>

Merge Orders

<p>Merge orders so you can process and ship them as one.</p>

Custom Order Number vs Merge Orders