Within the second half of 2023, WooCommerce will introduce an replace that may pace up your WooCommerce retailer. Amongst different enhancements, Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage (HPOS) will allow a greater, sooner checkout expertise to your clients and sooner order processing for you. 

In August 2023, all new WooCommerce shops will launch with HPOS. Present shops may have the choice to show HPOS on and off till it turns into obligatory for everybody.

This submit explains what Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage is, why we’ve constructed it for WooCommerce, and how one can allow it to your retailer.

Right here’s a fast overview of what it’s good to know:

1. HPOS means your clients’ expertise and your retailer administration expertise might be sooner and higher.
2. It’s accessible to check — and activate/off — now, however some extensions aren’t appropriate but. You’ll find out which of your extensions are appropriate by following these steps.
3. Third-party builders are accountable for updating their extensions. Woo will proceed to speak with them till the extension is appropriate.

What’s Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage?

Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage, or HPOS, is a significant database enchancment that WooCommerce has been engaged on since January 2022. It has been rigorously examined by our builders and the exterior developer group. 

HPOS will unlock main upgrades to your on-line retailer, together with as much as 5x enchancment so as creation pace and as much as 1.5x sooner checkout. On the operational aspect, efficiency can even be enormously improved — discovering an order will now be as much as 40x sooner.

Why is Woo including HPOS?

Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage is probably the most requested characteristic from our developer group. This isn’t solely a change that may assist your retailer develop and our know-how enhance, it’s one thing that may profit all builders that work with Woo, from extension creators to the builders who assist handle shops on an ongoing foundation. 

How is order storage altering with this improve?

With the present know-how, your retailer’s orders had been saved utilizing the identical database know-how that shops WordPress posts. Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage will transfer order data into a brand new database storage system that’s commerce-first and can scale higher together with your retailer. 

Your web site will course of orders sooner and also you’ll be capable to entry order data extra rapidly on the backend. 

This new characteristic will improve your on-line store with probably the most trendy database know-how that scales simply with your online business — irrespective of how large it grows.

When will HPOS be accessible?

We’re concentrating on a basic availability date of August 2023, however we notice that a number of the builders we work with might have extra time to make their extensions appropriate. Which means the August launch date could also be delayed to permit a few of our builders extra time to make their updates 

Nonetheless, HPOS is obtainable to make use of as an experimental characteristic now, which suggests you may check it out as quickly as you’d like.

The work to improve an extension to work with HPOS is a comparatively fast change, so we hope to have as many appropriate extensions as attainable prepared for the discharge date. 

When HPOS is launched, it’ll turn into the default expertise for brand spanking new shops. 

Nonetheless, we need to be sure that our current shops are functioning completely and right now, HPOS won’t be the default expertise for current shops. Your retailer will proceed working come August, however we encourage you to strive it out and revel in the advantages of a sooner checkout — or ask the developer you’re employed with to allow it to your retailer. 

This expertise will finally turn into the default for all shops sooner or later, however we’re giving ourselves and our extension builders loads of time to make that transition as easy as attainable. 

We’ll attain out to all current shops earlier than enabling HPOS for everybody.

Who can allow Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage now?

When you’ve got an current retailer utilizing WooCommerce 7.1 or later, you might be welcome to strive HPOS at any time. It’s at the moment an opt-in expertise accessible beneath your superior settings. 

There may be documentation on the WooCommerce web site and in addition in GitHub guides for builders. For the time being, it’s nonetheless an experimental characteristic till it’s launched, so work might be required to sync your retailer to the brand new desk construction.

We suggest studying via the entire documentation earlier than deciding to allow HPOS to your retailer. 

Please observe that some extensions won’t be appropriate with the brand new database structure but. We’re working with our third-party builders to ensure the extensions they make and assist might be appropriate with HPOS. 

Within the meantime, if you happen to select to strive HPOS, you may see which extensions might be appropriate with HPOS in your extension display screen as soon as the characteristic has been enabled. In case your extensions usually are not appropriate, HPOS won’t break your retailer. 

Since lots of our market extensions are constructed by third-party builders, we’re counting on them to replace their extension code for compatibility. If you happen to strive HPOS and discover your favourite extension is incompatible, we encourage retailers to succeed in out to that developer and ask them to replace quickly. WooCommerce has supplied directions and assets to all builders to assist them replace their merchandise.

If you happen to strive HPOS and have any suggestions for us, please attain out to our assist group and so they can be sure your suggestions is distributed to the correct group.

First, congratulations on taking a significant step in your online business journey! If you’re creating a brand new retailer after Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage is mostly accessible, this would be the default database construction to your retailer. There may be nothing you’ll need to do to allow HPOS. Nonetheless, some extensions will stay incompatible. Regardless of our greatest efforts to encourage extension builders to make the updates, some won’t have accomplished so in time for basic launch. 

Any extensions that stay incompatible with HPOS after its launch might be faraway from the Woo Market, so new shops will not be capable to obtain and set up them. We need to be sure that your retailer runs as easily as attainable and reduce the danger of getting incompatible extensions. 

All new shops will obtain the total advantages of a sooner checkout expertise and higher operational efficiency with HPOS.

Regularly requested questions

The Woo engineering group is working onerous to make sure that all HPOS adjustments are impactful in optimistic methods, and in order that retailers and builders alike have what they should make an knowledgeable choice about when to allow Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage. 

Under is an inventory of widespread questions and their solutions. For extra technical perception, check out our developer weblog FAQ. When you’ve got additional questions, please depart a observe within the feedback part or attain out to our assist group, and we are going to reply as rapidly as we are able to. 

1. How does Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage work?

Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage (HPOS) works by including database storage tables, particular to orders, to the present WordPress database. This implies your orders are going to be now saved in a brand new desk construction designed particularly to work for WooCommerce. For extra technical data, our documentation on HPOS is a good useful resource.

2. I’ve an current retailer however don’t need to strive HPOS.

No downside! Whereas we do encourage everybody to change to HPOS to benefit from the full advantages of a sooner checkout expertise to your clients, we perceive that not everybody will need to strive it straight away. It is possible for you to to change anytime, even after the characteristic reaches basic availability.

3. My favourite extension is incompatible with HPOS, what ought to I do?

We have now been actively speaking concerning the upcoming HPOS change with our developer group. We have now a number of weblog posts, guides for the right way to replace extensions in GitHub, and full documentation. Regardless of our greatest efforts to encourage extension builders to make the swap, some builders might not accommodate HPOS. 

If considered one of your extensions is incompatible, we strongly suggest that you simply attain out to the developer’s assist group and ask them to make the replace. Any extensions that don’t replace by the point the characteristic is launched might be faraway from our market. You’ll proceed to have the ability to use the extension with out HPOS if you have already got it put in.

4. I attempted to allow HPOS, however I’m caught!

If you happen to work with a developer who helps handle your on-line retailer, we suggest that you simply ask them to assist migrate your retailer over to HPOS. If you’re not working with a developer and also you strive HPOS earlier than it’s launched, there’s extra work wanted to sync your retailer. You should definitely comply with our documentation carefully.

If you’re nonetheless operating into points, you may disable HPOS, or you may attain out to our assist group for help. Moreover, our educated WooExperts can be found if you happen to want extra in-depth assist together with your on-line retailer.

5. Can small companies use HPOS or is it solely meant for bigger companies?

Companies of all sizes will profit from Excessive-Efficiency Order Storage. 

6. I’ve a high-volume retailer on WooCommerce. How does this impression my retailer?

Present shops won’t be migrated over to HPOS right now. You might be nonetheless welcome to strive it, particularly if you happen to work with a developer who maintains your retailer. 

Finally, all Woo shops will migrate to HPOS. Once we’re able to migrate current shops over, we are going to attain out once more to inform our current shops not at the moment on HPOS.

7. Will this work with extension [X]?

Previous to HPOS basic availability, one of the simplest ways to test if a selected extension’s compatibility is to allow HPOS beneath superior settings after which test your plugins tab in /wp-admin. Any extensions not appropriate with HPOS will present a message on this display screen. 

8. Are there any particular internet hosting necessities or limitations for utilizing HPOS in WooCommerce?

There aren’t any internet hosting restrictions. Any host that is ready to run WordPress should not have any bother operating HPOS, and it ought to even enhance efficiency in a lot of methods after it’s enabled.