Magento2 Check Order Was Created by Admin or Customer?

Question

I want to check whether an order is created by an Admin or by the customer.

Answer 1

By default, Magento2 only stores the remote_ip in table sales_order for an order that is place by customer (while admin order is set to null).

if(!empty($order->getRemoteIp()){
  //place customer
}
else{
  // place by admin
}

Answer 2

Try this,

<?php                                                                 
namespace Vendor\Module\Controller\Orders;                                
class ReadOrders extends \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action                 
{
 public function __construct(
    \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context $context,
    \Magento\Sales\Api\OrderRepositoryInterface $orderRepo
    ) {
    $this->orderRepo = $orderRepo;
    parent::__construct($context);
}

public function execute()
{
    $orderPlaced = '';
    $entity_id = '12';
    $order = $this->orderRepo->get($entity_id);
    $orderPlaced = $order->getRemoteIp();
    if ($orderPlaced) {
        echo "Placed by Customer";
    } else {
        echo "Placed by Admin";
    }
}}

Hope this helps :)

Answer 3

You can log this with observers. Just use the sales_order_place_after event within the etc/adminhtml directory inside the events.xml to log that an order has been created by an admin. You can do this for every area. More about areas Here.

Example of the events.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Event/etc/events.xsd">
    <event name="sales_order_place_after">
        <observer name="My_observer_name" instance="Vendor\NameSpace\Observer\LogOrderAdmin"/>
    </event>
</config>

I suggest you create an extra order field via a InstallSchema where you can log this to.