Testing orders

Creating test orders is an effective way to evaluate a new payment method, review your checkout process, and assess other order-related integrations. They can also be useful for troubleshooting issues.

Like regular orders, test orders can trigger order emails and appear in WooCommerce Analytics, among others.

Many payment gateways offer a sandbox or testing mode that allows you to process test payments without incurring any fees or charges. We recommend enabling this mode when testing your orders and checkout.

There is currently no visual difference or special status for test orders. As a result, other WooCommerce extensions, plugins, or services may be unable to differentiate between these test orders and your real orders.

Be sure to review the documentation for each extension, plugin, or integration to understand how they handle test scenarios. Depending on your requirements, you may want to disable specific integrations before placing any test orders.

Once you’re finished, you can delete and remove these test orders to prevent these orders from being inadvertently handled, shipped, or appearing in your store’s analytics, etc.

• To avoid unintended complications with test payments on your live site, perform testing exclusively on a staging site.
• Use a third-party plugin such as Disable Emails to prevent emails from being sent for test orders. This plugin may not prevent emails from being sent via an SMTP provider, however.

Do you still have questions and need assistance? 

• If you’re looking to extend the core functionality shown here, we recommend reviewing available extensions in the WooCommerce Marketplace.
• Need ongoing advanced support or a customization built for WooCommerce? Hire a Woo Agency Partner.
• Are you a developer building your own WooCommerce integration or extension? Check our Developer Resources.

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