WooCommerce – Customizing Checkout Fields

Adding a new field to checkout and Order info on WooCommerce Admin

Working on my latest project I’ve needed to add a new field to WooCommerce checkout, a “NIF” (Portuguese equivalent of VAT number) field, that isn’t available by default in WooCommerce checkout.

After checking a couple of websites I’ve ended up creating the following snippet:

// Hook in WooCommerce checkout fields and add new field
add_filter( 'woocommerce_checkout_fields' , 'add_field_to_checkout' );

// Our hooked in function - $fields is passed via the filter!
function add_field_to_checkout( $fields ) {

$fields['billing']['billing_fieldname'] = array(
    'label' => __('Field Name', 'woocommerce'),
    'placeholder' => _x('Field Label as placeholder', 'placeholder', 'woocommerce'),
    'required' => false,
    'class' => array('form-row-wide'),
    'clear' => true
  );

return $fields;
}

//Add info on Admin
function add_field_to_admin($order){
  echo "<p><strong>Field Name:</strong> " . $order->order_custom_fields['_billing_fieldname'][0] . "</p>";
}

add_action( 'woocommerce_admin_order_data_after_billing_address', 'add_field_to_admin', 10, 1 );

With this little snippet you can add your new field to “billing” or “shipping” information.