Adding tracking info to orders

This article provides developer documentation for adding support with the Advanced Shipment Tracking for WooCommerce.

AST provides a way for shipping services and plugin to add shipment tracking information to the WooCommerce order meta data and to fulfill the orders. You can add the shipment tracking information to orders programmatically or, use the shipment tracking endpoint in WooCommerce API.

Shipment Tracking order meta reference

ATTRIBUTE	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	PERMISSIONS
order_id	string	Unique identifier for order	Required
tracking_provider	string	Tracking provider name	Required
tracking_number	string	Tracking number	Required
date_shipped	date	Date when the package was shipped – default to the date/time that the tracking was added via the API	Optional
status_shipped	int	0 – do not change the order status, 1 – change order status to “Shipped” (completed), 2 – change the order status to custom status “Partially Shipped” (Defaults to 0).	Optional

Add Shipment tracking

With the use of this code snippet, you can add shipment tracking information to the order.

<?php
// Check if AST PRO plugin is Installed
if ( class_exists( 'WC_Advanced_Shipment_Tracking_Actions' ) ) {
	
	$order_id = '123';
	$tracking_provider = 'USPS';
	$tracking_number = '123123';
	$date_shipped = '2022-04-21';
	$status_shipped = 1;	
	
	if ( function_exists( 'ast_insert_tracking_number' ) ) {
		ast_insert_tracking_number( $order_id, $tracking_number, $tracking_provider, $date_shipped, $status_shipped );
	}
}