Difference between classic subscriber role and “client”

Howdy!

Looks like both the Subscriber role and the Customer role only has the read capability. You install a plugin like User Role Editor to see the capabilities of each user role.

People become Customer users when registering via the checkout or sign-up process.

Customers:

* Have read access capabilities only. This is the equivalent status to a * normal blog subscriber.
* Can edit their own WooCommerce account information.
* View past/present orders.

You can read more information about the default WooCommerce user roles here:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/roles-capabilities/

Problem is at the moment I don’t sign-up users in a traditional way: I have 2 different WP installations, one with WP (without WC), another one with WP and WC. They DON’T share the same database. So, I dump the wp_users table in, say, site-A and drop/replace the wp_users table in site-B.

At this point, I have a problem (more than one): users in site-A are subscribers while users in site-B should be customers.

Thanks very much.

Howdy!

Thanks for the additional information!

In that case, I would try to export and then import the users instead of overwriting the database tables. That should consolidate the data for you.

@dynamiczach : well, I don’t actually think this would work. I verified wp_usermeta: site-B fields (keys) are different from site-A. So, for wp_users no problem: I can simply drop/replace the table. wp_usermeta is a different beast, so I’m writing a procedure to add/remove user metas in a selective way.

Okay. I wish you all the best.