Add a delay in auto-split

Just taking a quick look if I set a different hook will it no longer try to fire on thank-you? As it is now it looks like it is just adding extra triggers.
That is one of the issues is the thank you page only shows the parent order with the split order products removed and we need the thank you page to load before the split happens..

Unfortunately it does not.

Here is what happens: Once an order is placed the user gets taken directly to the thank-you page which shows the now stripped parent order. So it looks to the user as though their order is missing items. They then receive two emails, one with all their products and then another with their stripped-out product (making it appear as though they got double charged).

What I am looking for is a way to NOT split the order until several seconds AFTER the order is in the “processing” state so that the auto-firing thank-you page and emails show the whole order BEFORE it is split.

I have set as you requested. there is no change. The thankyou page still only shows the parent order minus the split-off item and there are two emails sent to the customer, one for each order.

The issue with turning off auto-split is that mucks up the api’s for our partners. The reason we auto-split is some of our products are produced on-demand. That system pulls orders periodically. If an order were to come in at night and sit waiting for us to split the next day that would create 2 production orders with our partner. There cannot be more than 2 minutes of delay in splitting or we cannot split at all without MAJOR issues.

So, I understand that you are looking into a new feature, and that is great, however, I was hoping for a defer action php bit of code I could add to my site as a band-aid.