webhooks - WooCommerce payment complete hook

Question

After a long search, I found this post:

WooCommerce hook for "after payment complete" actions

which talks about creating web hooks in WooCommerce to notify a script to do...something...doesn't matter too much what.

I've also read everything I can find in WooCommerce docs.

but I need some kind of documentation or guidance on actually writing the handler on the other end.

My goal is to receive a payment complete notification and then move the user to a different list (a customer list rather than a prospects list) after purchase - I use PHPlist in house as my list manager. Pretty sure I can deal with that part, if I can just get the listener going...

But..I don't know what the web hook sends, how to get it to send data that I want, and what to do with the listener.

I did also find this:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-woocommerce-excelling-ecommerce-order-id-for-payment-notification-to-external-webservice?replies=4

which - MIGHT be helpful? i'm still not sure where to begin with the listener, or if this post is valid still, given that it's a couple of years old...

Answer 1

The woocommerce_payment_complete hook is fired when the payment is completed. The only variable passed is the order id, though from that you can get the order object, and ultimately the user.

add_action( 'woocommerce_payment_complete', 'so_payment_complete' );
function so_payment_complete( $order_id ){
    $order = wc_get_order( $order_id );
    $user = $order->get_user();
    if( $user ){
        // do something with the user
    }
}