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WooCommerce Cookbook

By : Patrick Rauland
Book Image

WooCommerce Cookbook

By: Patrick Rauland

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WooCommerce Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an invoice


For some stores, you need to create quotes or invoices for clients instead of being able to give them the typical e-commerce checkout experience. Maybe you need to calculate a custom shipping cost, give the user special pricing, or adjust the order to the quantities you actually have available.

Whatever the reason, you can manually create an invoice for a customer and send it to them. They can then view the invoice and pay for it.

How to do it…

For this recipe, we'll have to manually create a new order, assign the order to your customer, add all of the costs, and then send it to the customer.

  1. From the WordPress admin, go to WooCommerce | Orders.

  2. Click on Add Order:

  3. Leave Order status as Pending Payment:

  4. Select your customer from the Customer dropdown.

    Note

    It's much easier to already have the customer in your system.

    If you have a few extra moments, it's worth adding the customer to your site by going to Users | Add New and adding all of their details. When you're adding them,...