WordPress uses the same ID system for pages, posts, media, products, and orders. That means that, if you add a new product and an image for that product, the next order will be three numbers higher than the previous order. As a store owner, employee, or anyone not familiar with the inner workings of WordPress, that might be confusing.
In the e-commerce world, with accounting software, drop-shippers, customers, and everything else going on, it's really helpful to have consecutive order numbers. There is a free plugin that will make all order numbers sequential.
We can install the WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers plugin by performing the following steps:
In the WordPress admin, click on the Plugins menu and then on Add New.
Run a search for the
WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbersplugin.Install and activate the plugin.
There isn't any configuration necessary for this plugin. By simply installing it, all future order numbers will be in the correct...