High-Performance Order Storage for WooCommerce

Within the second half of 2023, WooCommerce will introduce an replace that can velocity up your WooCommerce retailer. Amongst different enhancements, Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage (HPOS) will allow a greater, quicker checkout expertise on your prospects and quicker order processing for you. 

In August 2023, all new WooCommerce shops will launch with HPOS. Present shops could have the choice to show HPOS on and off till it turns into necessary for everybody.

This put up explains what Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage is, why we’ve constructed it for WooCommerce, and how one can allow it on your retailer.

Right here’s a fast overview of what it is advisable to know:

1. HPOS means your prospects’ expertise and your retailer administration expertise might be quicker and higher.
2. It’s accessible to check — and activate/off — now, however some extensions aren’t suitable but. You’ll find out which of your extensions are suitable by following these steps.
3. Third-party builders are chargeable for updating their extensions. Woo will proceed to speak with them till the extension is suitable.

What’s Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage?

Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage, or HPOS, is a serious database enchancment that WooCommerce has been engaged on since January 2022. It has been rigorously examined by our builders and the exterior developer neighborhood. 

HPOS will unlock main upgrades on your on-line retailer, together with as much as 5x enchancment so as creation velocity and as much as 1.5x quicker checkout. On the operational facet, efficiency may also be vastly improved — discovering an order will now be as much as 40x quicker.

Why is Woo including HPOS?

Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage is essentially the most requested function from our developer neighborhood. This isn’t solely a change that can assist your retailer develop and our expertise enhance, it’s one thing that can profit all builders that work with Woo, from extension creators to the builders who assist handle shops on an ongoing foundation. 

How is order storage altering with this improve?

With the present expertise, your retailer’s orders had been saved utilizing the identical database expertise that shops WordPress posts. Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage will transfer order info into a brand new database storage system that’s commerce-first and can scale higher together with your retailer. 

Your web site will course of orders quicker and also you’ll have the ability to entry order info extra shortly on the backend. 

This new function will improve your on-line store with essentially the most fashionable database expertise that scales simply with your small business — irrespective of how large it grows.

When will HPOS be accessible?

We’re focusing on a common availability date of August 2023, however we notice that a few of the builders we work with may have extra time to make their extensions suitable. Which means that the August launch date could also be delayed to permit a few of our builders extra time to make their updates 

Nonetheless, HPOS is offered to make use of as an experimental function now, which suggests you possibly can try it out as quickly as you’d like.

The work to improve an extension to work with HPOS is a comparatively fast change, so we hope to have as many suitable extensions as potential prepared for the discharge date. 

When HPOS is launched, it’s going to develop into the default expertise for brand spanking new shops. 

Nonetheless, we wish to make it possible for our present shops are functioning completely and right now, HPOS is not going to be the default expertise for present shops. Your retailer will proceed working come August, however we encourage you to strive it out and revel in the advantages of a quicker checkout — or ask the developer you’re employed with to allow it on your retailer. 

This expertise will finally develop into the default for all shops sooner or later, however we’re giving ourselves and our extension builders loads of time to make that transition as clean as potential. 

We’ll attain out to all present shops earlier than enabling HPOS for everybody.

Who can allow Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage now?

You probably have an present retailer utilizing WooCommerce 7.1 or later, you’re welcome to strive HPOS at any time. It’s at present an opt-in expertise accessible underneath your superior settings. 

There may be documentation on the WooCommerce website and likewise in GitHub guides for developers. In the intervening time, it’s nonetheless an experimental function till it’s launched, so work might be required to sync your retailer to the brand new desk construction.

We advocate studying by way of the whole documentation earlier than deciding to allow HPOS on your retailer. 

Please notice that some extensions is not going to be suitable with the brand new database structure but. We’re working with our third-party builders to verify the extensions they make and assist might be suitable with HPOS. 

Within the meantime, in case you select to strive HPOS, you possibly can see which extensions might be suitable with HPOS in your extension display screen as soon as the function has been enabled. In case your extensions will not be suitable, HPOS will not break your store. 

Since a lot of our market extensions are constructed by third-party builders, we’re counting on them to replace their extension code for compatibility. In the event you strive HPOS and discover your favourite extension is incompatible, we encourage retailers to achieve out to that developer and ask them to replace quickly. WooCommerce has offered directions and assets to all builders to assist them replace their merchandise.

In the event you strive HPOS and have any suggestions for us, please reach out to our support team and so they can be certain that your suggestions is distributed to the best group.

First, congratulations on taking a serious step in your small business journey! If you’re creating a brand new retailer after Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage is usually accessible, this would be the default database construction on your retailer. There may be nothing you’ll need to do to allow HPOS. Nonetheless, some extensions will stay incompatible. Regardless of our greatest efforts to encourage extension builders to make the updates, some is not going to have finished so in time for common launch. 

Any extensions that stay incompatible with HPOS after its launch might be faraway from the Woo Marketplace, so new shops will now not have the ability to obtain and set up them. We wish to make it possible for your retailer runs as easily as potential and reduce the danger of getting incompatible extensions. 

All new shops will obtain the total advantages of a quicker checkout expertise and higher operational efficiency with HPOS.

Regularly requested questions

The Woo engineering group is working onerous to make sure that all HPOS adjustments are impactful in constructive methods, and in order that retailers and builders alike have what they should make an knowledgeable resolution about when to allow Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage. 

Under is a listing of widespread questions and their solutions. For extra technical perception, check out our developer blog FAQ. You probably have additional questions, please go away a notice within the feedback part or reach out to our support team, and we’ll reply as shortly as we will. 

1. How does Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage work?

Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage (HPOS) works by including database storage tables, particular to orders, to the prevailing WordPress database. This implies your orders are going to be now saved in a brand new desk construction designed particularly to work for WooCommerce. For extra technical info, our documentation on HPOS is a superb useful resource.

2. I’ve an present retailer however don’t wish to strive HPOS.

No drawback! Whereas we do encourage everybody to modify to HPOS to benefit from the full advantages of a quicker checkout expertise on your prospects, we perceive that not everybody will wish to strive it instantly. It is possible for you to to modify anytime, even after the function reaches common availability.

3. My favourite extension is incompatible with HPOS, what ought to I do?

We now have been actively speaking in regards to the upcoming HPOS change with our developer neighborhood. We now have a number of weblog posts, guides for how one can replace extensions in GitHub, and full documentation. Regardless of our greatest efforts to encourage extension builders to make the swap, some builders might not accommodate HPOS. 

If one among your extensions is incompatible, we strongly advocate that you just attain out to the developer’s assist group and ask them to make the replace. Any extensions that don’t replace by the point the function is launched might be faraway from our market. You’ll proceed to have the ability to use the extension with out HPOS if you have already got it put in.

4. I attempted to allow HPOS, however I’m caught!

In the event you work with a developer who helps handle your on-line retailer, we advocate that you just ask them to assist migrate your retailer over to HPOS. If you’re not working with a developer and also you strive HPOS earlier than it’s launched, there may be further work wanted to sync your retailer. You should definitely follow our documentation intently.

If you’re nonetheless working into points, you possibly can disable HPOS, or you possibly can attain out to our assist group for help. Moreover, our educated WooExperts are available in case you want extra in-depth assist together with your on-line retailer.

5. Can small companies use HPOS or is it solely meant for bigger companies?

Companies of all sizes will profit from Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage. 

6. I’ve a high-volume retailer on WooCommerce. How does this influence my retailer?

Present shops is not going to be migrated over to HPOS right now. You’re nonetheless welcome to strive it, particularly in case you work with a developer who maintains your retailer. 

Finally, all Woo shops will migrate to HPOS. After we’re able to migrate present shops over, we’ll attain out once more to inform our present shops not at present on HPOS.

7. Will this work with extension [X]?

Previous to HPOS common availability, the easiest way to examine if a selected extension’s compatibility is to allow HPOS underneath superior settings after which examine your plugins tab in /wp-admin. Any extensions not suitable with HPOS will present a message on this display screen. 

8. Are there any particular internet hosting necessities or limitations for utilizing HPOS in WooCommerce?

There are not any internet hosting restrictions. Any host that is ready to run WordPress should not have any bother working HPOS, and it ought to even improve efficiency in various methods after it’s enabled.