Hello kulavc3.
You can specify where the data is stored. For billing and shipping WooCommerce stores by default now in the user meta. You can specify that the data is stored in the order meta also for custom fields.
The Rich Guy saves its product related data with the order and order item meta. What you do with this data is up to you. The plugin does not provide a possibility to register the data with the user meta. That’s out of the scope of the plugin as this is to specific. The plugins are called Swiss Knifes for some reason 🙂
Regards.
uh
Hey Ulihake,
Thanks for getting back to me!
Ok good, I knew it was stored in the user for billing and shipping but didn’t know about additional data. For instance this is what I’m looking to do.
Customer adds product A to cart. When product A is added, conditional fields will show (functionality in Rich Guys…correct?) based on what was set up.
From there I want the additional data that I gathered from customer when he had product A in his cart added to the user meta. Is this the way it works or do those values only get stored to the order meta?
Hi kulavc3.
It’s stored by nature in the order and order item meta. The user meta is not the right place to overload with order and order item meta. I understand that you may have a need for this but your need is to sophisticated to make it into a general purpose plugin. That’s an integration problem.
The Rich Guy offers you the possibility to capture the data but it does not provide the means to push this into the user meta as data may be repeated… what’s the correct data if the user buys four items and you have item personalization that repeats the fields? That’s a n-to-1 data mapping situation. What’s the purpose? The Rich guy already allows you to create additional users in the context of a product item, what’s good for events, tickets: a customer books a event for four persons and you can attach a personalization form which allows you to capture the data for four participants with the option to create additional users.
Without any detailed background I don’t see, what I can do for you as the feature request is difficult to implement and useless for nearly everybody.
Regards.
uh
Hey ulihake,
Thanks again for the response. You answered my question as I knew some could be saved in the meta but some was saved in the order specifically. I just didn’t want to think it could show up in the meta when it would only show in the order area.
Last question, Rich guy DOES allow you to show conditional fields based on the number of products in the cart tho correct correct?
Thanks again!
-Nick
Rich Guy allows you to attach item personalization forms. It’s conditional in the way that you decide which products show personalization forms and which not, if this is what you’re asking for, as I have some difficulties to understand your point.
Once again: Custom fields in the context of billing and shipping are stored in the user meta by default, you have the possibility to store them as well in the order meta.
Other data is not suitable for user meta, especially custom data captured in the context of product items is not suitable out of the box to be stored as user data.
To clarify things a bit more: when you talk of “number of products”, do you refer to different products or to quantities of a single product? In both cases: WooCommerce Rich Guys Swiss Knife allows you to personalize each individual product as well as all “quantities” of each product. If you have a dinner event and somebody places a reservation for 4 people for this dinner product you can capture data for each individual that sums up for the quantity of four (4). This includes all kind of data, you can even upload an individual image file for each of the party members.
Regards.
uh
