Orders

By going to the “Orders” section of the Wordpress shopping cart plugin you can manage all your shop orders. You have the ability to view orders, create new orders, edit/change existing orders and remove orders as needed.

Definition & Associations

An order is a single record with associations assigned to it. Each order has one or more order items and could have one or more discounts assigned to it. An order record belongs to a user. Think of an order as a shopping cart/basket. A shopping cart/basket is a more appropriate term/phrase for an uncompleted/unpaid order.

Order Specific Details

There are a few things you have to take note of when you look at an order.

User

An order will always belong to a user. Either the user who created the order or the user you assigned to the order when you created/edited the order. The user has a Wordpress account, together with a set of other details propagated by the plugin such as shipping- and billing details, preferred payment method, etc…

Completion Status

The completion status of an order tells you whether or not the order has been fully paid for. The value of this field could be either “Y” or “N”. The first mentioned means that the order has been fully paid for and the payment has been received for the total amount of the order. The latter means that the order has not been paid for due to the fact that it might still be in use.

Shipped Status

This will of course only be relevant if the order has tangible items assigned to it. In case the order has tangible items assigned to it, the order could have one of two shipped status values. “Y” all of the order items have been marked as shipped and “N” if none or only some of the order items have been marked as shipped. When an order doesn’t have any tangible items assigned to it, it obtains the value “N/A” which could stand for “Not Available” or “Not Applicable”.

Sub Total

The sub total of the order is the sum of the price of the product of each order item, each respectively multiplied by the quantity/count value of the order item. The sum is basically the total amount of the order before the shipping charges, discounts and other relevant values are calculated.

Discount Applied

With the discount coupons feature enabled and active discount coupons in your database, a user might apply a discount to an order which will be deducted from the sub total of the order. This field tells you what the total amount of discount is which has been applied for the specified order.

Shipping Total

With shipping calculation enabled in the “Settings” section and one or more tangible order items assigned to the order, this value will tell you what the total shipping charge is for the specified order. This value will be added to the sub total of the order and finally presents the total amount of the order as a sum.

Total

The order total is the amount that the user will be/has been charged. The total is the sum of the sub total minus the discount applied, plus the shipping charges. This is the amount for the payment you receive when the user pays via the payment gateway.

Created Date

This is the year, month, day, hour, minute and second when the order was originally created. When the user visits your site the first time and adds a product to their shopping basket, the order will be created.

Modified Date

The closing or last edited date of the order record.