Run PHP Code After Payment Complete On WooCommerce Store

WooCommerce is a popular WordPress plugin to add eCommerce functionality on a WordPress base site. The functionality and features of this plugin can be extended as there are lots of action hook available for this plugin.

In this post, I am going to tell you how to run your own PHP code after a successful payment on WooCommerce.

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There is an action hook available for WooCommerce which is woocommerce_payment_complete. now create your own PHP function and add this function into the woocommerce_payment_complete action hook.

Below is a code example which implies the process of running your own PHP code after a successful payment:

<?php
add_action( 'woocommerce_payment_complete', 'code_for_payment' );
function code_after_payment( $order_id ){
  // Write your own PHP code that rns after payment success
}
?>

In the above code, we have created a function code_after_payment and add this in the action hook woocommerce_payment_complete.

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Now you can place your own PHP code at inside the function code_after_payment. After a successful payment for an order on WooCommerce store, the PHP code will be run.

Now I want to tell you that the above code snippets may be so useful for WordPress plugin developers to develop a WordPress plugin that works with WooCommerce plugin.

5 responses to “Run PHP Code After Payment Complete On WooCommerce Store”

1. Sebastian Martinez says:

   September 13, 2018 at 2:19 am

   Hi, I want to ask you if that code will run automatically when the gateway send the update, and too where I get the $order_id, if that code runs in background?

   Thank you

   Reply
2. Debbie Kurth says:

   February 17, 2019 at 4:46 am

   I have the same question as sebastain

   Reply
3. sameer says:

   March 15, 2019 at 3:18 am

   Yes it should run

   Reply
4. Richard Foley says:

   June 25, 2021 at 8:54 pm

   It might help if the `code_for_payment` call actually matched the `code_after_payment` function.

   Reply
5. James Costello says:

   October 15, 2021 at 3:19 pm

   Hi, was anyone able to get this working? I need the same function, as I need to run PHP code that makes updates on an external database. Any help would be much appreciated.

   Reply