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WooCommerce Create account programmatically / through function


WooCommerce customer is essentially a WordPress user with extra metadata. So once the user is created you can add metadata to it by using update_user_meta function. Navigate to Users -> All Users, edit one of the users and then scroll down to see the fields.

Made up code given below to give you the gist of how it works.

$user_id = wc_create_new_customer( $email, $username, $password );update_user_meta( $user_id, "billing_first_name", 'God' );update_user_meta( $user_id, "billing_last_name", 'Almighty' );.... more fields

Here is the full list of billing and shipping fields

Billing

  • billing_first_name
  • billing_last_name
  • billing_company
  • billing_address_1
  • billing_address_2
  • billing_city
  • billing_postcode
  • billing_country
  • billing_state
  • billing_email
  • billing_phone

Shipping

  • shipping_first_name
  • shipping_last_name
  • shipping_company
  • shipping_address_1
  • shipping_address_2
  • shipping_city
  • shipping_postcode
  • shipping_country
  • shipping_state


Before attempting to create a new user I see if that user already exists and update the existing user if found. the get_user_by(field,value) function returns the user object so if the user exists use their id to update meta fields or if not create a new one.

  $email = 'test@test.test';        $address = array(            'first_name' => 'Tester',            'last_name'  => 'Test',            'company'    => 'Testing, LLC',            'email'      => $email,            'phone'      => '777-777-777-777',            'address_1'  => '310 S. Main Street',            'address_2'  => '',            'city'       => 'Las Vegas',            'state'      => 'NV',            'postcode'   => '89000',            'country'    => 'US'        );        $default_password = wp_generate_password();        $user = get_user_by('login', $email);        if (!$user = $user->ID) $user = wp_create_user( $email, $default_password, $email );        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_first_name", $address['first_name'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_last_name", $address['last_name']);        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_company", $address['company'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_email", $address['email'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_address_1", $address['address_1']);        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_address_2", $address['address_2'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_city", $address['city']);        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_postcode", $address['postcode'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_country", 'US');        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_state", $address['state'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "billing_phone", $address['phone'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_first_name", $address['first_name'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_last_name", $address['last_name']);        update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_company", $address['company'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_address_1", $address['address_1']);        update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_address_2", $address['address_2'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_city", $address['city']);        update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_postcode", $address['postcode'] );        update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_country", 'US');        update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_state", $address['state'] );