Title: Creating Order using Woocommerce API
Last modified: May 3, 2020
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# Creating Order using Woocommerce API
* [nelglez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nelglez/)
* (@nelglez)
* [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-order-using-woocommerce-api/)
* WooCommerce API creates an empty order.
When I create a new order in my app
I get the following response:
* ```
{ URL: https://www.mySite.com/wp-json/wc/v3/orders } { Status Code: 201, Headers {
"Cache-Control" = (
"no-transform, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
);
"Content-Encoding" = (
gzip
);
"Content-Length" = (
537
);
"Content-Type" = (
"application/json; charset=UTF-8"
);
Date = (
"Sun, 03 May 2020 12:47:57 GMT"
);
Expires = (
"Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT"
);
Link = (
"; rel=\"https://api.w.org/\""
);
Location = (
"https://www.mySite.com/wp-json/wc/v3/orders/2235"
);
Server = (
cloudflare
);
Vary = (
"Accept-Encoding"
);
"access-control-allow-headers" = (
"Authorization, Content-Type"
);
"access-control-expose-headers" = (
"X-WP-Total, X-WP-TotalPages"
);
allow = (
"GET, POST"
);
"cf-cache-status" = (
DYNAMIC
);
"cf-ray" = (
"58da17e5db87cce2-EWR"
);
"cf-request-id" = (
027c2d43a20000cce2fc876200000001
);
"expect-ct" = (
"max-age=604800, report-uri=\"https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct\""
);
"x-content-type-options" = (
nosniff
);
"x-endurance-cache-level" = (
0
);
"x-robots-tag" = (
noindex
);
} }
{
"_links" = {
collection = (
{
href = "https://www.mySite.com/wp-json/wc/v3/orders";
}
);
self = (
{
href = "https://www.mySite.com/wp-json/wc/v3/orders/2235";
}
);
};
billing = {
"address_1" = "";
"address_2" = "";
city = "";
company = "";
country = "";
email = "";
"first_name" = "";
"last_name" = "";
phone = "";
postcode = "";
state = "";
};
"cart_hash" = "";
"cart_tax" = "0.00";
"coupon_lines" = (
);
"created_via" = "rest-api";
currency = USD;
"currency_symbol" = "$";
"customer_id" = 0;
"customer_ip_address" = "";
"customer_note" = "";
"customer_user_agent" = "";
"date_completed" = "";
"date_completed_gmt" = "";
"date_created" = "2020-05-03T07:47:57";
"date_created_gmt" = "2020-05-03T12:47:57";
"date_modified" = "2020-05-03T07:47:57";
"date_modified_gmt" = "2020-05-03T12:47:57";
"date_paid" = "";
"date_paid_gmt" = "";
"discount_tax" = "0.00";
"discount_total" = "0.00";
"fee_lines" = (
);
id = 2235;
"line_items" = (
);
"meta_data" = (
);
number = 2235;
"order_key" = "wc_order_h4OZfjXmPjrZB";
"parent_id" = 0;
"payment_method" = "";
"payment_method_title" = "";
"prices_include_tax" = 0;
refunds = (
);
shipping = {
"address_1" = "";
"address_2" = "";
city = "";
company = "";
country = "";
"first_name" = "";
"last_name" = "";
postcode = "";
state = "";
};
"shipping_lines" = (
);
"shipping_tax" = "0.00";
"shipping_total" = "0.00";
status = pending;
"tax_lines" = (
);
total = "0.00";
"total_tax" = "0.00";
"transaction_id" = "";
version = "3.9.3";
}
```
* It doesn’t create an order with info im setting. This is my implementation code:
* ```
func createOrder() {
let billingDict: [String : Any] = [
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Doe",
"address_1": "969 Market",
"address_2": "",
"city": "San Francisco",
"state": "CA",
"postcode": "94103",
"country": "US",
"email": "john.doe@example.com",
"phone": "(555) 555-5555"
]
let shippingDict: [String: Any] = [
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Doe",
"address_1": "969 Market",
"address_2": "",
"city": "San Francisco",
"state": "CA",
"postcode": "94103",
"country": "US"
]
let lineItemsDict: String: Any =
[
[
"product_id": 93,
"quantity": 2
],
[
"product_id": 22,
"variation_id": 23,
"quantity": 1
]
]
let shippingLinesDict: String: Any =
[
[
"method_id": "flat_rate",
"method_title": "Flat Rate",
"total": 10
]
]
let params = ["payment_method": "bacs",
"payment_method_title": "Direct Bank Transfer",
"set_paid": true, "billing": billingDict, "shipping": shippingDict, "line_items": lineItemsDict, "shipping_lines": shippingLinesDict] as [String : Any]
guard let url = URL(string: "https://www.mySite.com/wp-json/wc/v3/orders") else { return }
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
let username = "ck_******"
let password = "cs_*****"
let loginString = String(format: "%@:%@", username, password)
let loginData = loginString.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)!
let base64LoginString = loginData.base64EncodedString()
request.setValue("Basic \(base64LoginString)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
request.httpMethod = "POST"
// request.setValue("Application/json", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
guard let httpBody = try? JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: params, options: [.fragmentsAllowed]) else {
return
}
request.httpBody = httpBody
let session = URLSession.shared
session.dataTask(with: request) { (data, response, error) in
if let response = response {
print(response)
}
if let data = data {
do {
let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: [.allowFragments])
print(json)
} catch {
print(error)
}
}
}.resume()
}
```
- This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by [nelglez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nelglez/).
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* Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-order-using-woocommerce-api/)
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