August 23, 2023 · 4 minutes read

How to Set Up Advanced Order Export for Woocommerce (Pro): Beginner’s Guide

How to install Advanced Order Export for Woocommerce (Pro)

Before installing the plugin, you need to buy it on our website. Select the appropriate tariff and click on the “Purchase” button.

Tariffs

As stated in the instructions, first we will remove the free version of the plugin, if it was installed earlier.

Next, go to the “Plugins” tab and click on “Add new”.

At the top of the page, click on “Upload” and choose the plugin archive. The plugin will appear in the “All plugins” tab. Activate it.

How to set up Advanced Order Export for Woocommerce (Pro)

We wrote about how to configure the plugin in this article. The settings are the same in both versions.

How to save report settings to your own Profile in Advanced Order Export for Woocommerce (Pro) 

Once you’ve set up your report, you can save them to your Profiles. 

To do this, click on the “Save as a profile” button

The “Save as a profile” button

You can create several such settings for different types of reports.

How to configure Status Change Jobs in Advanced Order Export for Woocommerce (Pro) 

The “Status change jobs” tab enables you to automatically export orders whose status has been modified to the designated location.

For example, let’s take the First situation from the last article.

There are two ways to create a job in the “Status change jobs” tab: 

  1. On the “Profiles” tab, you can click on the “Copy to a Status change jobs” button.
The “Copy to a Status change jobs” button
  1. On the “Status change jobs” tab you can click on the “Add job” button.
The “Add job” button

Then click “OK” on the message window.

The message window

In both cases, at the end you will see the window with the status job settings.

The status job settings

If you have already set up your “Profile” earlier, then you only need to specify “From status” and “To status” for the jobs. Let’s select the statuses “Processing” and “On hold” in the line “From statuses” and “Completed” in the “To status”.

“From status” and “To status”

Save settings.

How to configure Scheduled Jobs in Advanced Order Export for Woocommerce (Pro) 

You can configure the “Scheduled Jobs” tab to have reports exported on a schedule.

There are two ways to create a job in the “Scheduled Jobs” tab: 

  1. On the “Profiles” tab, you can click on the “Copy to a Scheduled Jobs” button.
The “Copy to a Scheduled Jobs” button
  1. On the “Scheduled Jobs” tab you can click on the “Add job” button.
The “Add job” button

In both cases, finish setting up the scheduled job on this window.

The scheduled job

By default, an empty file will not be sent.

The “Don’t send empty file” option

And the directory path is your site’s folder.

The directory path

You can choose another export destination (or destinations). For example, Email and Directory. To set up the Email, be sure to include a recipient. Then click on the ”Test” button.

The Email

If you have a similar error, then enter email in the “From email” field.

Error in Test Results

If the submission was successful, you will receive the following message.

Successfull Test Results

Schedule settings are quite flexible and understandable.

Schedule settings

Let’s imagine that you have to send a report on a certain day of a certain month. Choose date and time and click on the “Add” button.

Choose date and time
Click on the “Add” button

Do the same if you want to add another date.

Add another date

Set the period for which data will be loaded into the report in the “Export date range” section.

The “Export date range” section

Conclusion on how to set up Advanced Order Export for Woocommerce (Pro)

Now you figured out how to configure Advanced Order Export for Woocommerce (Pro). It also has many other equally useful settings. You can read about all of them in our plugin documentation.