WooCommerce Create account programmatically / through function

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1. WooCommerce customer is essentially a WordPress user with extra metadata. So once the user is created you can add metadata to it by using update_user_meta function. Navigate to Users -> All Users, edit one of the users and then scroll down to see the fields.

   Made up code given below to give you the gist of how it works.

   $user_id = wc_create_new_customer( $email, $username, $password );
   
   update_user_meta( $user_id, "billing_first_name", 'God' );
   update_user_meta( $user_id, "billing_last_name", 'Almighty' );
   .... more fields
   

   Here is the full list of billing and shipping fields

   Billing

   • billing_first_name
   • billing_last_name
   • billing_company
   • billing_address_1
   • billing_address_2
   • billing_city
   • billing_postcode
   • billing_country
   • billing_state
   • billing_email
   • billing_phone

   Shipping

   • shipping_first_name
   • shipping_last_name
   • shipping_company
   • shipping_address_1
   • shipping_address_2
   • shipping_city
   • shipping_postcode
   • shipping_country
   • shipping_state

2. Before attempting to create a new user I see if that user already exists and update the existing user if found. the get_user_by(field,value) function returns the user object so if the user exists use their id to update meta fields or if not create a new one.

     $email = 'test@test.test';
   
           $address = array(
               'first_name' => 'Tester',
               'last_name'  => 'Test',
               'company'    => 'Testing, LLC',
               'email'      => $email,
               'phone'      => '777-777-777-777',
               'address_1'  => '310 S. Main Street',
               'address_2'  => '',
               'city'       => 'Las Vegas',
               'state'      => 'NV',
               'postcode'   => '89000',
               'country'    => 'US'
           );
   
           $default_password = wp_generate_password();
           $user = get_user_by('login', $email);
   
           if (!$user = $user->ID) $user = wp_create_user( $email, $default_password, $email );
   
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_first_name", $address['first_name'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_last_name", $address['last_name']);
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_company", $address['company'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_email", $address['email'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_address_1", $address['address_1']);
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_address_2", $address['address_2'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_city", $address['city']);
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_postcode", $address['postcode'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_country", 'US');
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_state", $address['state'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "billing_phone", $address['phone'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_first_name", $address['first_name'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_last_name", $address['last_name']);
           update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_company", $address['company'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_address_1", $address['address_1']);
           update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_address_2", $address['address_2'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_city", $address['city']);
           update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_postcode", $address['postcode'] );
           update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_country", 'US');
           update_user_meta( $user, "shipping_state", $address['state'] );
   

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