Custom product and cost at invoice stage

  • Resolved Schnazalope

    (@schnazalope)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    I’m in need of a way to be able to add a product to my woocommerce store at the invoicing stage as I make a lot of custom products or design work. For example if a client wants me to design a logo for them for which I charge varying amounts depending on time it will take. I would like to be able to add a new invoice and then add a invoice line where I can enter in a custom product name like “Knitting logo” and then enter a custom cost. At the moment I can only add an existing product that I have added as a product but that doesn’t work so well because what if the next client wants a Repair Shop logo and the next a Gardening logo, or Gardening brochure. The item lines need to be specific and not just “graphic design” At the moment I just use a product I have called “Custom Art” and then edit the cost but it is not specific enough for my customers needs.

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  • Kenin

    (@kbassart)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi there,

    In this case you will need to either use a generic product such as the “Custom Art” product you are currently using, or make a custom product for each order. There wouldn’t be a way to add this as part of the order creation process, you’d need to do so before generating the manual order.

    Thread Starter Schnazalope

    (@schnazalope)

    Ok. I have been doing it the way you describe but my offerings have changed a bit and I have been getting more and more custom items that need descriptive line names. I was hoping hard that there was something out there that changed over the years but it sounds like I’m stuck with a poor workaround.

    Kenin

    (@kbassart)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi there,

    If you need to make your generic product more descriptive, you could always add in Line Item Meta to each product that adds a description.

    You can see how to do so here: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/managing-orders/#editing-or-adding-order-items

    This way the order will show the meta on the admin side like so:
    Link to image: https://d.pr/i/9MaB1K

    The info will also show on the orders page and the order emails:


    Link to image: https://d.pr/i/cOeJct

    Would that work for your needs?

    Thread Starter Schnazalope

    (@schnazalope)

    yes I think that would work! Thank you

    Kenin

    (@kbassart)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi there,

    You’re quite welcome! We’ll go ahead and close this as resolved for now then. Do let us know if you have any other questions.

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