Installation

Never do anything directly on a live store. First setup and test on a development domain (i.e. “dev.url.com”).

Make sure that you set your Magento application to the developer mode.

Temporarily disable Magento cache

To avoid any possible issues with the installation we recommend disabling Magento cache before proceeding with the installation and re-enabling it once the install is complete.

1. Log in to your Magento admin
2. Go to System > Cache Management
3. Select “Select All” in the “Mass Actions” drop down
4. Select “Disable” in the “Actions” drop down and Click Submit
5. Once the page reloads log out of the admin

Upload Acx Customer Order Number

Using your favorite FTP client, upload all files and folders to the root folder of your Magento installation

Install Extension

1.  Enable Acx_Number module. For how to enable magento 2 module follow this link.

Admin Configuration –Customer Order Number for Magento 2

Go to “Stores->Configuration->Acx Extension->Order Number from admin panel

• Specify the order’s number format which will replace the numbers generated by default Magento functionality.
• Set the starting numbers for your orders. Let’s say you have 1545 orders in your store and open a new Magento store. In this case, you can start counter from 1545.
• Counter Padding sets the amount of digits in order numbers to have 8. Now your order number will have the following view – 00003142.
• Counter Step option regulates number intervals between consecutive orders.

Invoice Number setting: You can set invoice number from here.

• You can set the same number for invoices and orders to meet your local records keeping standards
• Specify letter prefixes according to the type of document for which you modify the numbering model.

Shipping and Memo Number Setting: You can set shipping and memo number from here.

• Shipping and Credit Memo feature work the same way and have same options as order number settings.

Frontend – Out Of Stock Notification for Magento 2

After completing admin configuration. In the frontend when a customer place an order, they will see the order number format as like the screen-shot.