Integrating orders with an external api

Resolved animaonline
(@animaonline)

3 years, 7 months ago
Hi all, I’m quite new to Woocommerce, so I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask.

So, I have a third part api that has a list of digital products, I’m planning to import these products into Woocommerce, updating them nightly to make sure the prices and availability is correct.

When an order has been made, I need to confirm if the digital product is available and finally make a purchase request using the Woocommerce api, alternatively cancelling the order if the product is no longer available. Is this even possible with the Woocommerce api, and how can I learn more about this?

So basically I’m looking for some kind of middleware functionality.

Thanks in advance.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by animaonline.

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seank123
(@seank123)

3 years, 7 months ago

It’s certainly possible – but would need a bit of work to set up!

There are a few services that will let you do it – for example Make.

I’ve only used it to add orders to Trello and pull stock information from a supplier.

Thread Starter animaonline
(@animaonline)

3 years, 7 months ago

Thank you for answering, but I guess I’m looking for a way to do it through code, because there’s a shitton of data coming from the api 😅

Mirko P.
(@rainfallnixfig)

3 years, 7 months ago

Hi @animaonline,

It sounds like you need a solution to check product/stock availability from an external database and then make an order using REST API or cancel if there is no stock.

At the moment, there’s no built-in feature for that in WooCommerce, and customizing that would require a bit of additional coding. Custom coding goes beyond the scope of support we are able to provide in this forum. That said, I found the following links that may interest you:

– https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-pull-woocommerce-products-from-an-external-database/
– https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/175076/woocommerce-check-product-stock-availability-from-external-database

Regarding REST API you’ll find technical documentation here.

I’ll leave the topic open for a while to see if anyone else is able to step in and has any further suggestions for you.

I can also recommend the WooCommerce Developer Resources Portal for resources on developing for WooCommerce.

You can also visit the WooCommerce Facebook Community group or the #developers channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. We’re lucky to have a great community of open-source developers for WooCommerce, and many of our developers hang out there, as well.

Cheers.

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