WooCommerce: Save & Display Order Total Weight

For tracking purposes, or maybe because your shop manager needs to be aware of this, saving the total weight of each order and displaying it on the single order admin page is quite simple.

That’s right – WooCommerce does not save this value by default. You either need to save it yourself into the “order meta” or recalculate the weight based on the order items and their quantities. Here, we’ll cover option one (saving is better than calculating in regard to performance).

Enjoy 🙂

Display the order weight @ order admin

PHP Snippet: Save Order Weight & Display It @ WooCommerce Order Admin

/**
 * @snippet       Save & Display Order Total Weight - WooCommerce Order
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 7
 * @donate $9     https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/
 */

add_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta', 'bbloomer_save_weight_order' );

function bbloomer_save_weight_order( $order_id ) {
    $weight = WC()->cart->get_cart_contents_weight();
    update_post_meta( $order_id, '_cart_weight', $weight );
}

add_action( 'woocommerce_admin_order_data_after_billing_address', 'bbloomer_delivery_weight_display_admin_order_meta', 10, 1 );
 
function bbloomer_delivery_weight_display_admin_order_meta( $order ) {    
    echo '<p><strong>Order Weight:</strong> ' . get_post_meta( $order->get_id(), '_cart_weight', true ) . get_option( 'woocommerce_weight_unit' ) . '</p>';
}

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Does this snippet (still) work?

Please let me know in the comments if everything went as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting.

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Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.

24 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Save & Display Order Total Weight”

  1. Daniel

    This code no longer works. It displays “Order Weight: lbs”, but no number. 🙁

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hey Daniel, thanks so much for your comment! I just retested this on the latest version of WooCommerce and it still works. Unfortunately this looks like custom troubleshooting work and I cannot help here via the blog comments. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding! ~R

      Reply
  2. Roger

    D’oh!

    Would this might be the issue?
    I added the snippet to code snippets, and then I had it set to “Only run in administration area”.
    Maybe the “woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta” runs on front-end?

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Could be, yes, give it a go!

      Reply
      1. Claudio Ronelli

        Hi! Is there a way to show this information on the Order tab of the Account Frontend?
        Thanks!

        Reply
        1. Rodolfo Melogli

          Hi Claudio, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

          Reply
  3. zambol

    Hello, I tested your code and it works fine. but it is possible to display the total sales by weight in the form of a report, in tonnes for example. ex: product1 = 1000 tonnes or by product category. ex: cat1 = 500 tonnes

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Zambol thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  4. Tasos

    Hello and many thanks for this snippet !
    I added this code and it works really good , but only in the orders coming from the front end.
    When i manually add an order from the admin area , the order weight is not being updated 🙁
    Any ideas why?
    Many thanks

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      No idea sorry, you probably need to slightly edit the code

      Reply
  5. edoardo

    Hi Rodolfo,
    I use this code and work really well.
    But Now I m using the follow code to resolve a big delay of Webhooks in WooCommerce. when I use this code the Webhooks work really fast but Your code is ignored

    add_filter( ‘woocommerce_webhook_deliver_async’, ‘__return_false’ );

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Not sure Edoardo!

      Reply
  6. Abhinav bhalla

    hi Rodolfo,

    Thanks for this handy snippet of code. I will give it a shot to check if it works with new orders. MEanwhile i have a question and that is can we include the order weight in the new order emails which is sent to the admin. Please comment.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hello Abhinav, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  7. Domantas

    Hello

    I tried but the problem is that code does not show value (Order Weight: kg). How can I fix that? Maybe there is a problem with code on WordPress 5.3.2

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      This will only work for NEW orders and also if ALL products in the order have weight – let me know

      Reply
  8. perusi

    Hello,

    Is there a way to show variation weight or variation description on individual order-item-line? So, not the total weight, just individual!!

    Hope you`ll help

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hi Perusi, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  9. Peter Netz Lassen

    Ohhh I forgot the php tags 🙂 And I can’t edit — Sorry!

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Added them for you 🙂 Yes, this is definitely possible, but I’m afraid it’s custom work. If you’d like to get a quote, feel free to contact me here. Thanks a lot for your understanding!

      Reply
  10. Peter Netz Lassen

    Hi Rodolfo,

    Thanks for this…
    I already have 2 of them in my functions.php 🙂 One to show on the “orders overview” page and one inside the order and print it on the order email – that is on my table when I am doing / packing and printing the Shipment label

    Any chance it can be combined into one – to rule them all?

    Here is the two snippets

    /**
* Here is that custom function that will show on "Order page overview" the total weight pr. order
* gist.github.com/kloon/5299119
*/
add_filter( 'manage_edit-shop_order_columns', 'woo_order_weight_column' );
function woo_order_weight_column( $columns ) {
  $columns['total_weight'] = __( 'Weight', 'woocommerce' );
	return $columns;
}
add_action( 'manage_shop_order_posts_custom_column', 'woo_custom_order_weight_column', 2 );
function woo_custom_order_weight_column( $column ) {
	global $post, $woocommerce, $the_order;
	if ( empty( $the_order ) || $the_order-&gt;id != $post-&gt;ID )
		$the_order = new WC_Order( $post-&gt;ID );
	if ( $column == 'total_weight' ) {
		$weight = 0;
		if ( sizeof( $the_order-&gt;get_items() ) &gt; 0 ) {
			foreach( $the_order-&gt;get_items() as $item ) {
				if ( $item['product_id'] &gt; 0 ) {
					$_product = $the_order-&gt;get_product_from_item( $item );
					if ( ! $_product-&gt;is_virtual() ) {
						$weight += $_product-&gt;get_weight() * $item['qty'];
					}
				}
			}
		}
		if ( $weight &gt; 0 )
			print $weight . ' ' . esc_attr( get_option('woocommerce_weight_unit' ) );
		else print 'N/A';
	}
}
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    1. Peter Netz Lassen

      And the second Snippet (If I add yours to the buttom of this … The site crashes? 🙁

      /**
* Here is that custom function hooked in woocommerce_email_after_order_table action hook, that will show on "New order" email notification the total weight
* stackoverflow.com/questions/45701473/add-the-order-total-weight-to-woocommerce-new-order-email-notification
*/
add_action('woocommerce_email_after_order_table','show_total_weight', 10, 4);
function show_total_weight( $order, $sent_to_admin, $plain_text, $email ){

    if ( 'new_order' != $email-&gt;id ) return;

    $total_weight = 0;

    foreach( $order-&gt;get_items() as $item_id =&gt; $product_item ){
        $quantity = $product_item-&gt;get_quantity(); // get quantity
        $product = $product_item-&gt;get_product(); // get the WC_Product object
        $product_weight = $product-&gt;get_weight(); // get the product weight
        // Add the line item weight to the total weight calculation
        $total_weight += floatval( $product_weight * $quantity );
    }

    // Styles
    $style1 = 'style="width: 100%; font-family: \'Helvetica Neue\', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; color: #737373; border: 1px solid #e4e4e4; border-top:0;"';
    $style2 = 'style="text-align: left; border-top-width: 4px; color: #737373; border: 1px solid #e4e4e4; padding: 12px;border-top:0;"';
    $style3 = 'style="text-align: left; border-top-width: 4px; color: #737373; border: 1px solid #e4e4e4; padding: 12px;border-top:0;"';

    // Output
    echo "" . __( 'Total Product Weight: ', 'woocommerce' ) . "" . $total_weight . " kg.";
}
      Reply
  11. Roberta Wolfson

    Do you think this would be better transferred to the order details and to the print order or packing list.

    If for example, the shipping does not have access to the woocommerce backend.

    Reply
    1. Rodolfo Melogli

      Hey Roberta, yes, you can display it wherever you like – just change hook 🙂

      Reply
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