Woo commerce and group ordering

  • John McCarthy

    (@john-lion)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Has anyone had any experience with group orders with woo commerce?

    We sell pre-pitched tents at festivals and events. Our customers like to camp in groups and we’d like improve how that’s organised.

    I’m able to create specific woo template files in our child theme and use woo hooks and filters but this is another level. My initial idea is to enable customers to add to an existing order. By entering the original group members order no. The order would create a new order as normal but would also save the items to the group order no. entered.

    It seems like a complicated way of going about it but that’s where I’ve got to.

    Maybe there is a solution out there that I’m missing?

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  • otto.radics

    (@ottoradics)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hey John,

    How did you solve this problem? I have exactly the same issue, and I’m looking for a solution. What do you recommend?

    Thread Starter John McCarthy

    (@john-lion)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Otto,

    We did solve it but right now I can’t remember exactly how. I’ll have to get to the code I developed and get back to you.

    I know that it was pretty rough from my skill level at the time so maybe we can improve it together.

    I’ll be in touch asap.

    Cheers

    Thread Starter John McCarthy

    (@john-lion)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Otto,

    So looking through the code I’m not sure how useful it would be to you, so I’ll just give you the concept for now.

    I added two new fields to the WooCommerce checkout:
    1. Create new group
    2. Join existing group.

    Then upon user submission I checked values entered and saved the values to the post_mtea of the order:
    1. If the user wanted to “create new group” I checked to see if the group existed in the database already, if so throw an error if not save the group name to their order.
    2. If the user wanted to be added to “Join an existing group”; I checked to see if the group exists if it did I saved if not throw an error.

    This system gave us a simple meta value to export in our CSV that allowed us to group customers with the same group name together when out in the field setting up their tents.

    I’d be happy to go through any of this in more detail or working together on a better solution.

    Best,
    John

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