Need action of customer placing order to trigger printer

  • I am creating a website for a restaurant with online ordering. I need the following functionality:

    1. customer places order –
    2. order triggers printer at restaurant so they know to begin preparing the food.

    Have not selected eCommerce product yet but am thinking WooCommerce. Input welcome.

    Can anyone advise best way to do this?

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  • I’m going to guess that the website server doesn’t have a connection to a PC in the restaurant? There never normally is (and if there was it’d most likely be a huge security issue) so that means that there’s no way for WordPress to do print anything as it can’t connect to the remote location.

    I have seen this done in the past, but it was done by the website sending an email to the orders email address, and setting up an action on the receiving PC to print any new emails that were received. It’s not ideal, but it’s about the only way that it can be done.

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