{"id":515,"date":"2018-08-03T03:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T03:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce\/can-i-preserve-order-ids-whilst-migrating-to-woocommerce\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:40:13","slug":"can-i-preserve-order-ids-whilst-migrating-to-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/can-i-preserve-order-ids-whilst-migrating-to-woocommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I preserve order IDs while migrating to WooCommerce?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we can preserve your original order IDs when migrating to WooCommerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before starting the migration, please install one of the supported order-number plugins on your WooCommerce Target Store:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>WooCommerce Sequential Order Numbers<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sequential Order Numbers Pro<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, select <strong>\u201cPreserve order IDs on Target Store\u201d<\/strong> in the <strong>Additional Options<\/strong> section when configuring your migration. The plugin allows us to assign your source order numbers to the corresponding migrated orders instead of letting WooCommerce generate new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-1024x374.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-1024x374.png 1024w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-768x280.png 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-1536x560.png 1536w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.png 1806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If an order ID already exists on the Target Store, we may need to adjust it to prevent a conflict. Therefore, we recommend using a new or empty WooCommerce store whenever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case you have any other questions, please email us at\u00a0<strong>litextension@support.litextension.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[1332,1334,1387,1283,1349],"class_list":["post-515","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-id","doc_tag-migrate-id","doc_tag-order-id","doc_tag-woocommerce","doc_tag-woocommerce-migration"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/515\/revisions\/7915"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/21"}],"next":[{"title":"How to migrate manufacturers from\/to WooCommerce?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/how-to-migrate-manufacturers-from-and-to-woocommerce\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/516"}],"prev":[{"title":"How to enable maintenance mode in WooCommerce?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/how-to-enable-maintenance-mode-in-woocommerce\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}