Create product after User registration

Question

Is it possible to create automatically a product after a user registers?

I'm creating a sort of marketplace, so when a user signs up as vendor, I want Woocommerce to automatically create a product with these specs:

Product name = Booking - the_author_meta ('display_name')
Product slug = calendar-the_author_meta ('user_login')

For example. John Doe registers as vendor with "username: johndoe". When the registration is complete, a product is automatically created.

The product name is " Booking - John Doe". The product slug is: "calendar-johndoe".

So the product Booking - John Doe can be found at mysite.com/product/calendar-johndoe

Thank you for your time

Answer 1

You can achieve this by hooking it to user_register because WordPress core handles user registration and runs the user_register hook right after a user is registered. and to create a product you can use wp_insert_post methord to insert post with post_type = product

Here is the code:

add_action( 'user_register', 'myCustomProduct', 10, 1 );

function myCustomProduct($user_id)
{
    $user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
    $display_name = $user_info->display_name;

    $user_full_name = get_user_meta($user_id, 'first_name', TRUE) . ' ' . get_user_meta($user_id, 'last_name', TRUE);

    $my_product_name = 'Booking - ' . trim($user_full_name);
    $my_slug = 'calendar-' . str_replace(array(' '), '', strip_tags($display_name));

    $post = array(
        'post_author' => $user_id,
        'post_content' => '',
        'post_status' => "publish",
        'post_title' => wp_strip_all_tags($my_product_name),
        'post_name'=> $my_slug,
        'post_parent' => '',
        'post_type' => "product",
    );

    //Create Post
    $post_id = wp_insert_post($post, $wp_error);

    //set Product Category
    //wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, 'Your Category Name ', 'product_cat' );
    //set product type
    wp_set_object_terms($post_id, 'simple', 'product_type');

    update_post_meta($post_id, '_visibility', 'visible');
    update_post_meta($post_id, '_stock_status', 'instock');
    update_post_meta($post_id, 'total_sales', '0');
    update_post_meta($post_id, '_sku', "");
    update_post_meta($post_id, '_product_attributes', array());
    update_post_meta($post_id, '_manage_stock', "no");
    update_post_meta($post_id, '_backorders', "no");
    update_post_meta($post_id, '_stock', "");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_downloadable', 'yes');
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_virtual', 'yes');
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_regular_price', "1");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_sale_price', "1");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_purchase_note', "");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_featured', "no");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_weight', "");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_length', "");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_width', "");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_height', "");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_sale_price_dates_from', "");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_sale_price_dates_to', "");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_price', "1");
    //update_post_meta($post_id, '_sold_individually', "");
}

Code goes in function.php file of your active child theme (or theme). Or also in any plugin php files.
The code is tested and fully functional.

Please Note: I have assumed that your registration form has first_name and last_name field otherwise if you are using default WooCommerce registration form then it only has email and password field, So then above code will generate a product name as Booking -.

Hope this helps!