Title: Adding line items without adding a ‘fee’
Last modified: May 4, 2021

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# Adding line items without adding a ‘fee’

 *  Resolved [davefineleather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davefineleather/)
 * (@davefineleather)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/)
 * Thanks for your help.
 * Currently, we add one-off items to orders by adding a ‘fee’ and then changing
   the name of the fee to the actual item we’re selling.
 * However, this is throwing off our accounting, as the items are technically not
   fees but are still categorized as such in our documentation.
 * Is there a way to add one-off, line items without categorizing them as fees?

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 *  Plugin Support [Aashik P – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aashik/)
 * (@aashik)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14395669)
 * Hi there!
 * > Currently, we add one-off items to orders by adding a ‘fee’ and then changing
   > the name of the fee to the actual item we’re selling.
 * Would you mind sharing more about the workflow you’ve got in place so that we
   can cross-check if there are alternatives we can recommend?
 * Is there a specific reason you’re attempting to replace the existing line items/
   a specific reason to not add the actual products in the first place?
 *  Thread Starter [davefineleather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davefineleather/)
 * (@davefineleather)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14400248)
 * Thanks for replying.
 * We add an item as a fee when that item isn’t regularly available in our store–
   i.e. if it’s just a one-off sale for an item that won’t be sold again in the 
   future.
 * Otherwise, everything is added as a specific product and we don’t have this problem.
   Is there a better way to add a one-off line item without categorizing it as a
   fee?
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by [davefineleather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davefineleather/).
 *  Plugin Support [slash1andy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slash1andy/)
 * (@slash1andy)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14404533)
 * Hey there!
 * The next best thing that I would say to do is to create a “Custom Item” item 
   on your site. Then you can add in meta when you add it to the order.
 * This would look like this (from my test site): 
    Link to image: [https://d.pr/i/XxcXrZ](https://d.pr/i/XxcXrZ)
 * The wording under the item title there is how that would show in the order.
 * Hopefully that helps! Have a great one!
 *  Thread Starter [davefineleather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davefineleather/)
 * (@davefineleather)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14405065)
 * Thank you very much! Could you clarify the process to create a custom item?
 *  Thread Starter [davefineleather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davefineleather/)
 * (@davefineleather)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14413753)
 * Could someone point me in the direction of documentation on how to create a custom
   item in WooCommerce? Thanks!
 *  Plugin Support [slash1andy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slash1andy/)
 * (@slash1andy)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14427591)
 * Hey again!
 * This isn’t a “custom item”, it’s an item in WooCommerce that you name custom 
   item if you’d like.
 * You can just leave the price as 0 in the product, and change all that (and add
   meta in) when you add it in the order with a custom item.
 *  Thread Starter [davefineleather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davefineleather/)
 * (@davefineleather)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14427916)
 * Thanks for getting back to me. I understand now.
 * This sounds like a suitable solution outside of the item sold being called ‘custom
   item.’ We like to be able to see exactly what people have purchased when viewing
   data. Is there a way to change the name of the ‘custom item’ after adding it 
   to an order, on the fly?
 *  Thread Starter [davefineleather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davefineleather/)
 * (@davefineleather)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14455693)
 * Hello – I’m giving this message a bump from a week ago:
 * Thanks for getting back to me. I understand now.
 * This sounds like a suitable solution outside of the item sold being called ‘custom
   item.’ We like to be able to see exactly what people have purchased when viewing
   data. Is there a way to change the name of the ‘custom item’ after adding it 
   to an order, on the fly?
 *  Plugin Support [slash1andy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slash1andy/)
 * (@slash1andy)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14468875)
 * Hey again!
 * 
    Link to image: [https://d.pr/i/QJWA4](https://d.pr/i/QJWA4)
 * There wouldn’t be a way to change the name of the product in the order itself,
   but you can add custom meta to the item there. That would be where I would add
   in the details.
 * In that example above, I added in a meta with the name, and then the value.
 * You can add in “Name : fancy custom item #1” and then something like “Color: 
   Blue” , “size: largest” etc.
 * You can add as much or as little detail as you want in the meta there.
 *  Thread Starter [davefineleather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davefineleather/)
 * (@davefineleather)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14469354)
 * Thanks so much!
 *  [Mirko P.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainfallnixfig/)
 * (@rainfallnixfig)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-line-items-without-adding-a-fee/#post-14496358)
 * You’re most welcome! Glad to hear that my colleague was able to help you.
 * I’ll go ahead and mark this thread as resolved. If you have further questions,
   please feel free to open a new topic.
 * Cheers.

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