Dev Chat Summary: May 23rd

This post summarises the dev chat meeting from May 23rd (agenda, Slack archive).

Progress with importer/exporter

• Wrapping up development this week!
• We have a branch for testing: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/tree/feature/product-csv-import-export
• Merge is supported, based on ID and/or SKU
• Attributes are supported
• There is a mapping screen
• Mappings are not stored/remembered

Order search helpers are ready for feedback

• Search helpers are ready and a WIKI explains usage: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/wiki/wc_get_orders-and-WC_Order_Query
• In short, wc_get_orders does what it always has, but also has a bunch of new params you can query by
• Feedback; update status to use non-prefixed statuses like other core methods.
• Date range queries are INCLUSIVE.
• customer accepts an email or an ID for backwards compatibility
• Helpers do not support advanced custom meta queries.

Should we remove ID based searches e.g. in customer search boxes?

• General consensus on removing in a future version
• Do not seem to be commonly used, even on small stores
• Hard to remember IDs
• IDs are not exposed in the WordPress UI – only in URLs

How to deal with Cash on Delivery paid status

• Separate order/shipping/paid status are a long way off being available.
• Most against using on-hold status instead of processing.
• We should add custom handling to ensure paid date is not set until the order is completed.