Custom made android & ios application has been created by using our Magento source code & database.
Since we are getting orders from different environments such as Magento website, Andriod & iOS app, we would like the differentiate the source of the order.
Please let me know the best way to differentiate the source of the order.
Thaks in advance!
To get the different source with order you have to create different store for each device.
And with the help of .htaccess file you have to redirect user on different store based on user agent. It will add the store information with order.
Like your main store is abc.com and for mobile device you have to create a new store and pointed on m.abc.com.
When user comes from mobile device you have to redirect the user on m.abc.com with the help of .htaccess.
You can do the following way:
You are talking about user agent, so magento by default does not provide this feature.
You can do it via php in $_SERVER ['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; variable you can get detail of user agent ,
so with the help of this $_SERVER ['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; variable you come to know weather this device is android, ios or Desktop.
In the sales_order_place_after event get user agent and save in your database.
just google how to addcutomfield in order in magento you get very good tutorial about that.
What I normally do is create a separate store view to get the different locations. There won't be much difference, except that you can see from which platform the order is placed and the order numbers will start with a different number.
Stuff like stock, accounts and customer/order data can be shared between them, so you'll be fine.
All you need to do in the app, is make it "listen" to a different store ID.
