WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders is a backend extension that allows shop managers to rapidly create new orders while taking phone calls or manually entering sales data. It simplifies the administrative process by consolidating product selection, customer assignment, and payment processing into a single workflow. This plugin ensures that staff can handle transactions without navigating the standard customer-facing checkout process.
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What Is WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders?
WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders is developed by Premium Plugins and is an ecommerce plugin for WordPress. It serves as a specialized administrative tool for store owners who need to process orders outside of the traditional online cart experience. It belongs to the ecommerce category on WPExclusive, alongside other tools for high-volume retailers.
The plugin solves the bottleneck of slow manual order creation in the default WooCommerce admin interface by providing a smart search and quick-add interface. It is specifically designed for sales teams, support representatives, and brick-and-mortar staff who take verbal orders over the phone.
WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders Features
The feature set is built around speed and flexibility for backend order entry, ensuring that complex product types and customer profiles are handled instantly.
Advanced Product & Price Management
Phone Orders & Manual Orders includes a smart search box to find products by name or SKU instantly. It supports simple, variable, grouped, composite, bundled, and subscription products, ensuring consistency across your entire inventory. Shop managers can also add arbitrary products that do not exist in the store catalog and manually adjust product prices on the fly during the order process. This capability is vital for ecommerce environments where custom quotes or physical-only items are sold.
Customer and Checkout Flexibility
The plugin allows for the creation of orders for existing users, new accounts, or guest shoppers who do not require a permanent profile. Administrators can apply coupons, add custom cart fees with unique labels, and set custom shipping prices regardless of standard shipping rules. It integrates with major payment gateways including Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, and traditional bank transfers, allowing staff to process payments immediately while the customer is on the line.
Order Workflow and Integration
Orders can be placed on hold and resumed later, which is helpful for sales that require verification or additional data. Staff can load any existing order as a starting point for a new one, facilitating repeat purchases for regular customers. The plugin maintains compatibility with various extensions like Dynamic Discounts, Wholesale Pricing, and Product Add-on Forms for specialized data input. This makes it an essential part of the Premium Plugins ecosystem for professional store management.
Pricing
Retail pricing begins at $129.00 per year for a single site license. Access via WPExclusive provides a more cost-effective route for developers and agencies.
| Plan | Price | Sites | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Site | $129.00/year | 1 Site | Updates & Support |
| Business | $179.00/year | 5 Sites | Updates & Support |
| WPExclusive Membership | From $9.99/month | Unlimited | Phone Orders & Manual Orders + full library |
For developers managing multiple sites, a WPExclusive membership covers Phone Orders & Manual Orders plus hundreds of other plugins and themes — usually less than one premium license.
Latest Version
The current version is 3.6. This release focused on WooCommerce 10.x compatibility and improved tax calculation logic when loading previous orders. WPExclusive updates plugin files promptly after each release.
How to Install
- Download the Phone Orders & Manual Orders .zip from your WPExclusive member account
- In WordPress: Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
- Select the .zip and click Install Now → Activate
- Navigate to the manual order entry page within the WooCommerce dashboard to begin creating orders.
Use Cases
Taking Phone Sales in a High-Volume Office
Sales agents can quickly fill carts by SKU and take credit card details over the phone using this fast ecommerce interface.
Recurring Wholesale Orders
Staff can load a previous order for a wholesale client, adjust the quantities, and save it as a new order in seconds, maintaining wholesale pricing tiers.
Agencies and Developers Managing Multiple Client Sites
Implementing this solution across multiple client stores is simplified through WPExclusive membership, which removes per-site licensing costs while providing the same feature-rich experience for store managers.
vs Alternatives
| Feature | Phone Orders & Manual Orders | Kestrel Phone Orders | Phone Orders (WP.org) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guest Ordering | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ No (Free version) |
| Custom Fees | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Start from Old Order | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| Starting Price | $129.00 | Paid | Free / Pro |
| Available on WPExclusive | ✅ Yes | ❌ | ❌ |
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Pros and Cons
✅ Strengths
- Allows adding arbitrary non-catalog products for custom physical sales.
- Directly compatible with many advanced product types like Bundles and Subscriptions.
- Supports over a hundred payment gateways for manual entry.
⚠️ Limitations
- Requires manual tax display adjustments in certain older version configurations.
- User interface is built for efficiency rather than visual consistency with the frontend.
- Developer auto-updates require an active license key. WPExclusive publishes updates manually when new versions are released.
Is WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders GPL Licensed?
Yes. WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) — the same license that governs WordPress itself. GPL gives any user the legal right to use, study, share, and redistribute the software. This is the legal framework that makes WPExclusive’s membership model possible.
WPExclusive distributes 100% original, unmodified files — the same release the developer publishes. No injected code, no alterations, no security risks.
Get WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders on WPExclusive
WPExclusive membership starts at $9.99/month, $87/year, or $149 lifetime — giving you WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders plus every plugin and theme in the library, on unlimited sites.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders do?
WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders is an administrative extension for store owners. Phone Orders & Manual Orders provides a streamlined screen to search for products and create orders manually for phone or in-person customers.
Is WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders free?
No, it is a premium extension. While there is no official free version on WordPress.org, customers can access Phone Orders & Manual Orders via WPExclusive plans starting from $9.99/month.
What is the latest version of WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders?
The current version is 3.6, which includes compatibility fixes for newer WordPress releases. WPExclusive members always receive the most current release as soon as it is vetted and uploaded.
How much does WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders cost?
Retail licenses start at $129.00 per year per site. Via WPExclusive, it is included in plans from $9.99/month.
Is it legal to use WooCommerce Phone Orders & Manual Orders via WPExclusive?
The plugin is GPL licensed, which explicitly permits redistribution. WPExclusive provides original, unmodified files — fully within GPL terms.
Can Phone Orders & Manual Orders handle products not in my shop?
Yes, Phone Orders & Manual Orders allows shop managers to add arbitrary, non-catalog products with custom pricing and descriptions directly to a manual order.
