The WooCommerce OrderCup plugin helps store owners significantly speed up the shipping process by offering an easy way to seamlessly integrate their WooCommerce Stores on WordPress with OrderCup.
The OrderCup WooCommerce Plugin provides comprehensive functionality including creating a Store within OrderCup, migrating the Store from a Staging to Production URL and updating the Store credentials (Customer Key and Secret) stored in OrderCup. The Extension also allows you to enable Push Notifications for specific Order statuses in your WooCommerce store.
NOTE: The OrderCup plugin requires Customer Key & Customer Secret for it to work,
You can generate the Customer Key & Secret as follows:
1) Log into your WordPress Admin
2) Go to WooCoomerce -> Settings -> API -> Enable the REST API
3) Go to WooCoomerce -> Settings -> API --> Key Apps -> Add Key (Make Sure You provide read / write access to the keys)
Plugin Features
Once you install and enable the OrderCup Plugin, it gives you ability to do the following:
- Create a Store within your existing OrderCup Account that links to your WooCommerce Store
- If both your Account and Store exist in OrderCup, you can link your OrderCup Store to your WooCommerce Store in WordPress
- Update your OrderCup Settings
- Update the Consumer Key & Secret
- Update the Store URL
Download and Installation
If you don't have an OrderCup Account, follow the steps below. Otherwise skip directly to the next section, “Login to your OrderCup Account”
- Vist the link Sign Up
- Once you click on the OrderCup link, you will be redirected to the OrderCup Signup page. Fill in all the details and click the Sign Up button to create your OrderCup Account.
Login to your OrderCup Account
1. Login to your OrderCup Account
2. Click on the Settings Menu once you have logged in
3. Click on the Plugins menu under Stores section and download the WooCommerce OrderCup plugin
Install the Extension
Within the WP Admin, go to Extensions › Add New › Upload
Select the plugin zip file from the folder on your local computer (where you downloaded the plugin file in Step 3 under the section ‘Login to your OrderCup Account’)
Click the Install Now Button
Once install is complete, Click the Activate Extension link
Note: If you already have the OrderCup plugin installed, you will need to deactivate and delete the earlier plugin and install this new version
Configure and Authenticate your Extension
Log in to your OrderCup account and click on the Settings Tab.
- Under the Setting -> Cart, click the Authorization Token sub-menu and Copy the Authorization Token. You will need to paste this in the next step.
Create Woocomerce Store
This menu provides you the following capabilities:
Create a store on OrderCup and link the store to your WooCommerce store
Enable Push Notifications
When you receive an order in your WooCommerce store, that order will be automatically pushed to OrderCup
You can enable specific order statuses for push notifications. Only prder with those statuses will be pushed to OrderCup
How does Create WooCommerce Store work
Once you copy & paste the customer key and customer secret and you enable push notifications for specific order statuses, you need to click on the “Login & Link” button. You will then be redirected to the Login page of OrderCup.
Once you login to your account, you will be able to create the WooCommerce store.
WooCommerce Store Details
Customer Key & Customer Secret:
The Customer Key & Customer Secret are required for access to your WooCommerce store via the API (e.g for Order Fetch and Push Notifications to work).
You can modify the Customer Key & Customer Secret used to link to your WooCommerce store at any time from the OrderCup -> Update OrderCup Settings menu.
Store URL:
The Store URL will be the URL of your WooCommerce store (this is not editable).
Push Order Notifications:
The enabled Order statutes that will be pushed to OrderCup, You can also modify these at any time from OrderCup -> Update OrderCup Settings menu. Modify the Push Notification enabled statuses as needed and click the Update button.
Note: Clicking on a Disabled/Enabled status enables/disables it.
Update Woocommerce Settings
Under this menu of the Plugin, you can do the following
Update the the Customer Key & Customer Secret that are associated to your OrderCup store
Update the URL of your store on OrderCup (this option is very useful when you are migrating from your Staging domain to your Production domain or your store URL has changed)
Update the Push Notification settings
Update Key and Secret
If you need to update the Customer Key & Customer Secret stored on your OrderCup Store , you can do so by performing the below steps
Copy and Paste the Customer key & Customer Secret which you want to be saved at OrderCup end in the respective fields
Click the Update button
Update URL
This section, will allow you to update the URL of the WooCommerce store at OrderCup end.
When can i make use of this option
Below are some of the scenarios when you can use this option of update URL
When you are moving from staging server to production server
You have modified your WordPress store URL
Below section describes the fields that are present on Update URL form
New Store URL:
This the URL of your new Store, that will be updated at OrderCup end
Old URL:
This is the URL that is currently associated with your WooCommerce store at OrderCup end, once You provide a Valid URL, your OLD URL at OrderCUp end will be updated to the New Store URL.
Push Notification Settings
This is where you can update the Push Notification Settings at any time you want, you need to click on the statuses to enable / disable them, once you are done you need to click the update button and your push notification settings would take effect immediately.
Update Key and Secret in OrderCup
If you need to update the Customer Key & Customer Secret stored on your OrderCup Store , you can do so by performing the below steps
Copy and Paste the Customer key & Customer Secret which you want to be saved at OrderCup end in the respective fields
Click the save button at the bottom.
Conflict / concern with Shipment Tracking Plugin
Whereas, Ordercup updates the shipment tracking by posting to the buyer's order notes section and also send out an email to the buyer when a tracking information is generated along with custom tracking links, that will redirect automatically to the carrier's website.
FAQs
What is Authorization Token used for in my plugin
The authorisation token is issued to you from OrderCup, this is mandatory for the plugin to work, this ensures that all the request you make from your WooCommerce WordPress Store to OrderCup are validated and true. The authorization token also identifies the user and acts as a combination of username & password
I feel my Authorization Token is compromised, what can i do to generate a new one
You would need to log into to your OrderCup account and visit Settings tab in Order to generate a new Authorization token
After generating a new Authorization Token what are the steps i need to follow
Once you generate a new Authorization token at OrderCup you will have to update the same at WooCommerce store at WordPress end for the plugin to function efficiently
Where can i find the Troubleshooting information
Please visit the link below to find Troubleshooting information