Overview
As you’d expect, orders on an online system show what users have purchased. Orders are linked to Carts and although you
would generally only have one Order per cart, the system will support multiple if your store requires it.
Create an order
You can either create an order directly, or the recommended way is via a Cart model.
allowMultipleOrders - Generally carts will only have one draft order associated, however if you want to allow carts to
have multiple, you can pass true here.
orderIdToUpdate - You can optionally pass the ID of an order to update instead of attempting to create a new order, this must be a draft order i.e. a null placed_at and related to the cart.
The underlying class for creating an order is Lunar\Actions\Carts\CreateOrder, you are free to override this in the
config file config/cart.php
At minimum your class should look like the following:
Validating a cart before creation.
If you also want to check before you attempt this if the cart is ready to create an order, you can call the helper
method:
Under the hood this will use the ValidateCartForOrderCreation class which lunar provides and throw any validation
exceptions with helpful messages if the cart isn’t ready to create an order.
You can specify you’re own class to handle this in config/cart.php.
Which may look something like:
Order Reference Generating
By default Lunar will generate a new order reference for you when you create an order from a cart. The format for this
is:
{0..0} indicates the order id will be padded until the length is 8 digits (not including the prefix)
The prefix is optional and defined in the lunar/orders.php config file, which gives access to a number of settings you can change.
Custom Generators
If your store has a specific requirement for how references are generated, you can easily swap out the Lunar one for
your own:
config/lunar/orders.php
Or, if you don’t want references at all (not recommended) you can simply set it to null
Here’s the underlying class for the custom generator:
Modifying Orders
If you need to programmatically change the Order values or add in new behaviour, you will want to extend the Order
system.
You can find out more in the Extending Lunar section for Order Modifiers.
Order Lines
Create an order line
If you are using the createOrder method on a cart, this is all handled for you automatically.
Or via the relationship
Order Addresses
An order can have many addresses, typically you would just have one for billing and one for shipping.
If you are using the createOrder method on a cart, this is all handled for you automatically.
You can then use some relationship helpers to fetch the address you need:
Shipping Options
A Shipping Tables addon is planned to make setting up shipping in the admin hub easy for most scenarios.
To add Shipping Options you will need to extend Lunar to add in your own logic.
Then in your checkout, or where ever you want, you can fetch these options:
This will return a collection of Lunar\DataTypes\ShippingOption objects.
Adding the shipping option to the cart
Once the user has selected the shipping option they want, you will need to add this to the cart so it can calculate the
new totals.
Transactions
Create a transaction
Just because an order has a transaction does not mean it has been placed. Lunar determines whether an order is
considered placed when the placed_at column has a datetime, regardless if any transactions exist or not.
Most stores will likely want to store a transaction against the order, this helps determining how much has been paid,
how it was paid and give a clue on the best way to issue a refund if needed.
These can then be returned via the relationship.
Payments
We will be looking to add support for the most popular payment providers, so keep an eye out here as we will list them
all out.
In the meantime, you can absolutely still get a storefront working, at the end of the day Lunar doesn’t really mind what payment provider you use or plan to use.
In terms of an order, all it’s worried about is whether or not the placed_at column is populated on the orders table,
the rest is completely up to you how you want to handle that. We have some helper utilities to make such things easier
for you as laid out above.
And as always, if you have any questions you can reach out on our Discord!
Order Status
The placed_at field determines whether an Order is considered draft or placed. The Order model has two helper methods
to determine the status of an Order.
Order Notifications
Lunar allows you to specify what Laravel mailers/notifications should be available for sending when you update an
order’s status. These are configured in the lunar/orders config file and are defined like so:
Now when you update an order’s status in the hub, you will have these mailers available if the new status
is awaiting-payment. You can then choose the email addresses which the email should be sent to and also add an
additional email address if required.
Once updated, Lunar will keep a render of the email sent out in the activity log so you have a clear history of what’s
been sent out.
These email notifications do not get sent out automatically if you update the status outside of the hub.
Mailer template
When building out the template for your mailer, you should assume you have access to the $order model. When the status
is updated this is passed through to the view data for the mailer, along with any additional content entered.
Since you may not always have additional content when sending out the mailer, you should check the existence first.
Here’s an example of what the template could look like:
Order Invoice PDF
By default when you click “Download PDF” in the hub when viewing an order, you will get a basic PDF generated for you to
download. You can publish the view that powers this to create your own PDF template.
This will create a view called resources/vendor/lunarpanel/pdf/order.blade.php, where you will be able to freely
customise the PDF you want displayed on download.