Transaction Numbers?

  • Resolved kenfrederick

    (@kenfrederick)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, just a small question. I’ve set up Give on a test site and made a few donations through the PayPal Sandbox. The first donation showed up in the Transactions list as #49 and the second as #52. Is there a logic to the transaction numbers? I was hoping they’d go as 1, 2, 3… to avoid confusing my client.

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  • Plugin Author Matt Cromwell

    (@webdevmattcrom)

    Hi there, that’s a good question.

    It all comes down to how WordPress creates post ID’s. Every time you create a comment, or a new blog post, or page, or menu item it gets a POST ID, just like our Transactions do. And they all share that same table in the database, so that means a blog or comment or something took #50 and #51 before your second donation came in.

    Occassionally we hear of organizations that require sequential numbering, and that’s unfortunately a very complex request. You can see that WooCommerce has an Extension for that here: https://woocommerce.com/products/sequential-order-numbers-pro/ and Easy Digital Downloads has this very advanced one as well https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/advanced-sequential-order-numbers/ — those are just examples of how other ecommerce platforms are solving that problem with big complex solutions.

    Thanks!

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