WooCommerce Create account programmatically / through function

Question

Is there anyway to create a customer programmatically like you can with a WordPress user. Obviously the WooCommerce user shares some of the same WordPress user fields, there there is additional content that would need to be set like Billing / Postal address.

Has anyone achieved this before? I can't find anything in the WooCommerce API / functions list on their website.

EDIT: Just found this: http://docs.woothemes.com/wc-apidocs/function-wc_create_new_customer.html

But how can I then provide other field details (like addresses).

Answer 1

WooCommerce customer is essentially a WordPress user with extra metadata. So once the user is created you can add metadata to it by using update_user_meta function. Navigate to Users -> All Users, edit one of the users and then scroll down to see the fields.

Made up code given below to give you the gist of how it works.

$user_id = wc_create_new_customer( $email, $username, $password );

update_user_meta( $user_id, "billing_first_name", 'God' );
update_user_meta( $user_id, "billing_last_name", 'Almighty' );
.... more fields

Here is the full list of billing and shipping fields

Billing

• billing_first_name
• billing_last_name
• billing_company
• billing_address_1
• billing_address_2
• billing_city
• billing_postcode
• billing_country
• billing_state
• billing_email
• billing_phone

Shipping

• shipping_first_name
• shipping_last_name
• shipping_company
• shipping_address_1
• shipping_address_2
• shipping_city
• shipping_postcode
• shipping_country
• shipping_state