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Custom Order Numbers for WooCommerce
Order numbers look great until your checkout stops working.
Healthy
69/100
It provides useful custom numbering but can cause severe performance issues or break your checkout process.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.2★
25 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-2%
Holding steady
60 → 59 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · -2% in the last year
60/day a year ago→59/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCustom Order Numbers for WooCommerce is a well-regarded plugin for adding sequential or custom prefixed order numbers to WooCommerce stores, but it carries a meaningful risk of conflicts with other plugins and hosting environments that can break cart functionality, payment processing, or site performance.
What people like
- +Works reliably for its core purpose of generating custom/sequential order numbers×7
- +Support team is responsive and helpful, often resolving issues same-day or quickly×4
- +Compatible with PDF invoice plugins and useful for multi-site order tracking with prefix/suffix customization×2
- +Developer has fixed compatibility issues (e.g., WooCommerce Subscriptions) promptly when reported
Common complaints
- −Order numbers are stored as meta data and do not update in the WooCommerce database itself, which can cause mismatches during online payment processing×2
- −Searching for custom order numbers in the WooCommerce Orders dashboard does not work×2
- −Can conflict with other plugins (e.g., Disable Cart Fragments), causing order numbers to skip or cart behavior to break×2
- −Caused severe site performance degradation (150+ second load times) and duplicate confirmation emails for at least one user
- −Caused cart count and cart popup to stop updating correctly, silently costing sales
- −High server resource consumption reported, triggering 508 errors on shared hosting
- −Conflicts with some payment gateways that require the order ID to match exactly
- −Changing a past order status can reassign it a new order number
- −Random order number mode does not work as expected — only sequential numbering functions reliably
- −Support unresponsive or unhelpful for some users, with issues going unresolved for months
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.29★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-02-092025-10-072026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 25 total
Latest reviews · 25 analyzed
- 2025-11-05★★★★★Professional, fast supportrichsadams
- 2025-01-21★★★★★Terrible support and pluginborja250
- 2022-08-27★★★★★Great plugin, great supportwpecom
- 2022-08-27★★★★★Not workinghippocoupon
- 2021-06-10★★★★★Great and usefulmozflw7yimq7s7v7d
- 2021-04-21★★★★★Great plugin & supportembermethod
- 2021-04-12★★★★★Very useful and simple plugin!MKW
- 2020-09-14★★★★★does what it is …doingtechguysa
- 2020-07-06★★★★★consume hosting resourceslh11011-shot
- 2020-04-08★★★★★Works fine and very usefullclassikd
Releases
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For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
59
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
53
Prior 7-day baseline
49
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
239
Mean release-day peak (30d)
59
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+11.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.74
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
76%
5★ share in analyzed sample
4%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.16 → 4.29★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered