manual assing key to order

Hello @koullis,

I’m thinking of a setting which overrides the global option for automatic delivery.

Pre-sale/pre-order is a good example.

• Edit the pre-sale product
• Activate “pre-sale” option
• Enter date of delivery
• Save and done

The customer would receive an info with the date when his key will be actually sent out. And when the time comes he would get the email with the license key. This would be done by a cron job, but you would also have a button to send out all license keys. Perhaps even an overview of the delivered keys inside the Product.

Would this work for you?

yes it could work but this wouldn’t use more resources to check if keys are added to send to orders that left out?

it could be presale/backorder option. once key is added for the specific product send the key to order which was backordered

but if order is already marked as complete would be checked again if key was delivered?

Hello @koullis,

The plugin could check if there are backorders for license keys as you add them. It’s not a performance issue at all.

For example, if you add 30 license keys and set them as “Active” for a product which has 20 backorders, the plugin could check this as you add the keys. It could also automatically send out those keys for you if you want (setting), or you could do it yourself via a button or even a backorder/pre-sale overview in the edit product view.

If the order is complete, it doesn’t automatically mean that the license keys have been delivered (Pre-Sale/Backorder). There already is a flag in the database for this. If the flag is set, then no license keys will be used/generated as the order is already done.

To sum everything up, what you (basically) need is the following:

• Backorder support
• Pre-Order support

I will think this more through, develop a strategy and then implement these two new features.

You can expect a new release in approximately 2-4 weeks. Please note that there are other features too already in my backlog and that I do this in my free time, so the time estimation is really just a wild guess.

Please correct me if there is anything that I understood wrong or doesn’t make sense to you.

thank you for your reply and its good to see someone really developing a plugin regularly. I understand its not your priority as you do this on your free time and you have other addons to add but any new features added are welcomed at any time

best regards

Thanks, and I really appreciate all the input I get. It helps to develop features I simply couldn’t think of on my own.

The next bigger update will improve the API. After that the back/pre-order functionality is next. There is still so much I want to implement but so little time… ??

If you really like the plugin I would be extremely happy if you took the time to write a review here on WordPress. It means a lot to me and would help spread the word.

I’ll mark this topic as resolved, as I added this into the backlog.

Have a nice weekend!