The one thing I was always jealous of were owners of really old Yahoo Stores or Legacy Stores as some call them. That was their order numbers were nice and neat. For example, if you were smart enough or lucky enough to get on a Yahoo platform long ago, your order numbers were typically your domain name and then the order number. So if would look something like this;

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Until recently, all the new Yahoo stores would get a really long order number that looks like this;

You know what I am talking about if you have ever had a customer call in to check on something and you ask them, instinctively, whats your order number? Then they reply with, hmmm must be this long number here, YST-318 bla bla bla and you stop them and go "Just give me the last 4-5 digits (everything after the last hypen)". Am I right?

Well I was probing around my store today and noticed something new that can be done to your store to get rid of all that!

In your store manager, goto the Order Settings and click on Shipment & Order Status (see image below)

Once here, you will see a spot for Order Number Prefix (see image below)

This particular example if from one of my stores that sells Medieval Swords and its called ReplicaDungeon.com so I used RD as my order prefix. Now when I get orders, they come in as RD-9543

Tell me that aint just cool?!

Have fun and hope to see you again soon.