Magento 2: How to get Id and Created Date of an Order in Observer?

Question

I am using sales_order_place_after event in Magento 2 inside Namespace/Module_name/etc/. In observer, I am getting order increment id by unable to get order id and created date of Order.

Example:

$order = $observer->getEvent()->getOrder();

$orderId = $order->getId();   

$createdAt =  $order->getCreatedAt();

I am unable to get both order id and created date.

Please help me in this?

Answer 1

Try using following event:

checkout_submit_all_after

Observer Code :

namespace Vendor\Module\Observer;

use Magento\Framework\Event\Observer;
use Magento\Framework\Event\ObserverInterface;
class CheckoutAllSubmitAfterObserver implements ObserverInterface
{
    /**
     *
     * @param Observer $observer
     * @return $this
     */
    public function execute(Observer $observer)
    {
        $order = $observer->getEvent()->getOrder();

        $orderId = $order->getId();

        $createdAt =  $order->getCreatedAt();

        return $this;
    }
}

Answer 2

Event sales_order_place_after triggered after payment placing. There is no stored order at this moment. OrderManagementInterface save order entity in database after this, therefore there are no db-generated fields such as created_at and entity_id. Use plugin on \Magento\Sales\Api\OrderManagementInterface::place.

Answer 3

I used sales_order_save_after event instead of sales_order_place_after in my event.xml file and now its working fine. I am getting both Order Id and Created Date also.

Answer 4

Its always good to use checkout_submit_all_after observer event for admin and frontend logic so as to get the order data when the order is successfully placed.

Answer 5

order_place_after when executed does not save the data in database that is why you are not getting the order_id for the same. Instead try using sales_order_save_after