Woocommerce error message

Hey @nicknack,

This message should not be showing unless the cart took more than 1 hour to complete from the time the ticket was added. Even when it happens, it should prevent checkout, because it would be happening before the page to complete the checkout is loaded.

With this in mind, we could be running into an unexpected edge case. The first step in determining if that it is the case, is to have you check a couple things. I need you to check two places.

First, figure out the order number that this message happened on, and the event that the tickets on that order were purchased for. Then run your Seating Report (OpenTickets (menu) -> Reports (submenu) -> Seating (tab)) for the day of the event that the order purchased a ticket for. Check the resulting report for the order number you found. If the order number is *not* on the list, then there may actually be a functional problem here, instead of some weird edge case.

Second, goto your Advanced Tools screen (OpenTickets (n=menu) -> System Status (submenu) -> Advanced Tools (tab) -> I understand (button)). Select the event that you figured out above. Find the order number you figured out on this list. If it is missing here, there could also be a problem that is not an edge case.

Once we have completed these first steps, we will have a better understanding of how to proceed. Please update me here once you have completed them.

Loushou

Hi @loushou, thanks for the quick response.

I’ve gone through your instructions as above.

First, yes that works and I can see the order number on the list.

Second, I can only see 40 events in the list (I have many more) so not sure if it’s there or not. However searching by order ID doesn’t come up with any results.

Here’s the system report if you need it …

== Environment ==
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* Site URL: [neutral] https://www.greenekingshop.co.uk
* WC Version: [neutral] 2.4.8
* WP Version: [neutral] 4.3.1
* WP Multisite Enabled: [neutral] No
* Wev Server Info: [neutral] Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat) ++ HTTP/1.1
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* MySQL Version: [neutral] 5.5.43
* WP Acitve Plugins: [neutral] 24
* WP Memory Limit: [good] You have more than the required minimum memory of 64MB. Your current total is 256M.
* WP Debug Mode: [neutral] No
* WP Language: [neutral] en_GB
* WP Max Upload Size: [neutral] No
* WP Max Post Size: [neutral] 20M
* PHP Max Execution Time: [neutral] 30
* PHP Max Input Vars: [neutral] 1000
* WP Uploads Writable: [good] Uploads directory IS writable
* Default Timezone: [neutral] UTC

== Software ==
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+ WooCommerce – Autocomplete Order () by Mirko Grewing (),
+ Woocommerce Export Products to XLS (https://www.nitroweb.gr) by Spyros Vlachopoulos (https://www.nitroweb.gr),
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* Acitve Theme: [neutral]
+ Greene King () by inspire: (https://www.inspiredc.co.uk)

== Data ==
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+ “Brewery 3” [#4682] (inherit),
+ “Brewery 2” [#4682] (inherit),
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* Ticket Products: [neutral]
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Many thanks

Hey @nicknack,

It is pretty strange that these two tests show different results, because in theory they should be checking the same data. Because they are showing different results, it sounds like this may need a closer look to figure out what is going on here.

If you are ok with it, I would like to take a directly look at your setup. This would require temporary access to your wp-admin (which you should delete after my investigation), but would enable me to run a couple more tests directly on your site. These will help me understand why these two screens are showing different information for you, and why you are getting this weird message about the ticket getting removed, even though the cart was completed within a reasonable amount of time.

If this is something you are ok with, please send some temporary admin credentials to [email protected]. If not, then we may have to get a little inventive to track down this problem.

Loushou

Hi Loushou
Just doing this now so login should be with you in a few mins.
Thanks

Hey @nicknack,

Sorry I missed this. I checked that box and I do not see any credentials from Thursday or Friday. I also checked spam just in case. Maybe try resending them? I will be checking throughout the day, here and in email for a reply. Let me know.

Thanks,
Loushou

Just recreated the user, email should be on it’s way now.
cheers

Hey @nicknack,

Got it. I will be looking into this now. I will ping back shortly.

Thanks,
Loushou

Hey @nicknack,

One thing that could help expedite this process would be if you could give me an order number that seemed to be affected by the issue. It would be most helpful if you gave me the order number of the order you were looking at during our conversations above. Specifically the one that showed on the seating report, but not on the advanced tools.

Loushou

You could try 5808 or 5809

Hey @nicknack,

I have been looking into this. I wound up making a change to your copy of the plugin (which will appear in the next release of the plugin) that repairs the advanced tools screen, so that it shows all matching events, not just 40. After I managed to get that patch in there, I found a things that will help me narrow my local testing down:

– both orders were made by you, an admin user, within 15 minutes of one another. this could be indicative of it being isolated to admin users, since you have access to do things others dont

– the first order 5808 got recorded properly, everywhere it needs to

– the second order 5809 only got recorded as a purchase, and did not get marked updated as a purchased ticket in our ticket table

– the tickets on both orders are for the same event

Each of these pieces of information will help me construct some testing scenarios. Once I have a way to replicate the problem reliably, I will ping you.

Loushou

Looking further into your advanced report and seating report, it seems like a strange thing did happen here. It is not that the ticket from 5809 was not completely saved, but instead, it looks like somehow it got combined with the ticket from order 5808. If you look at the seating report and the advanced reporting tools, it shows the ticket attached to order 5808 has a quantity of 2, though each order only has a quantity of 1. This could be indicative of another problem.

Just keeping you updated here,
Loushou

Hey @nicknack,

I was able to replicate this on my local environment and track it down. Essentially, my last comment describes the root of the problem. Under certain circumstances, reservations were getting ‘combined’. This was causing some backend data issues and that error message you reported. The latest version, 1.14.9, will resolve this moving forward. To repair those situation where this did happen, you can use the ‘Resync order items to tickets table’ System Status Tool. That tool will properly sync the reservations and orders so that they reflect the same value, for reporting.

Thanks again for reporting this, and let me know how this works,
Loushou

Hey @nicknack,

Just as a friendly reminder, if this did solve the issue for you, remember to remove that temp account you made for me, if you have not already. Thanks again for letting me get hands on access to the problem, because it definitely did help track down the issue.

Loushou

Hi @loushou
Thanks for all your efforts.
I’ve tried another transaction this morning and unfortunately got the same error message.
I’ve updated the plugin and then resynced order items to tickets table but still got the same message on a new browser with nothing cached.
Thanks

this was resolved a long time ago, but never closed in forums.