Comments on: Shortening Increment ID length for Orders, Invoices, and Shipments

By: Djay

Djay — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:36:23 +0000

Is better if you can avoid to use an SQL request in an installer

$entityType = Mage::getModel(’eav/entity_type’)->loadByCode(’order’);
$entityType->setIncrementPadLength(7)->save();

By: steve

steve — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:53:30 +0000

Should have said we are on 1.4.1.1

By: steve

steve — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:46:38 +0000

This worked for me:

UPDATE `eav_entity_type` SET `increment_pad_length`=4 WHERE entity_type_code = ‘order’;
UPDATE `eav_entity_type` SET `increment_pad_length`=4 WHERE entity_type_code = ‘creditmemo’;
UPDATE `eav_entity_type` SET `increment_pad_length`=4 WHERE entity_type_code = ‘invoice’;
UPDATE `eav_entity_type` SET `increment_pad_length`=4 WHERE entity_type_code = ’shipment’;

By: nikl

nikl — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:50:04 +0000

Use this, manually editIng won’t work:

update `eav_entity_type` set `increment_pad_length`=6 where `entity_type_code`=’order’;

By: Nellie

Nellie — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:02:35 +0000

Hmm. You know, this didn’t work for us. Do we need to truncate the test orders table first and work with a clean slate? Or do I need to update the last number with the proper length as well for it to work?

By: ehansen

ehansen — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:28:10 +0000

You should take a look in your sales_order_entity and look for rows with their entity_type_id equalling 16. If the increment_id field is 7 characters, then the directions worked.

By: Krystal

Krystal — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:22:30 +0000

Hi,
I posted this on the Magento forum just now as well. I followed the directions here to change the default 8 characters for invoice to 7, and I don’t think it worked for me. My credit card extension only allows 7 characters in the invoice field. So I changed invoice, invoice_item, and invoice_comment under the entity_type_code in my database to 7. I’m still getting an error when I try to post an order that says: “Declined: Field Format Error.” Any suggestions on this?