Order ID Scheme

Order ID Scheme allows you to choose between a Date and Timestamp based scheme and an numeric (incremental) orderID.

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Order ID Schemes

There are two orderID schemes to choose from: "Date and Time based" and a sequential "Numeric" scheme.

Date and time based

The date and time based scheme is the default order ID scheme used by UltraCart when you create your account.

DEMO-YYYYMMDDHHMM-RRRRRR

Where DEMO is the Merchant ID, YYYY is the year, MM is the month, DD is the day, HH is the hour, MM is the minute, and RRRRR is a random unique identifier.

The first four digits after the merchant ID and hyphen are the year. the next four digits represent the month and day, and the next four represent the hour (in 24 hour format) and minutes of the day, and the final six digits after the second hyphen are a random number string designed to eliminate duplicate orderID's placed within any given minute.

So a real orderID in the Date and Time based scheme appears like this:

DEMO-201212051603-233424

Numeric

If you would like to have a sequential order ID scheme then select numeric, enter a starting number, and select the width of the ID (UltraCart will place leading zeroes in front of the number).

The alternate format, numerically increasing, uses your designated starting number then increments upward one for each successful order.

An example numeric order ID with a staring number of one thousand and a width of ten would be:
DEMO-0000001000

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