How to Use WooCommerce Checkout JavaScript Events

If you are a WooCommerce developer looking for a way to customize the WooCommerce checkout experience.  You are probably looking for Woocommerce checkout javascript events that occur during the checkout process.

Understanding the various WooCommerce checkout javascript events can help you to capture each event and add your custom code that changes the way WooCommerce checkout works.

For example, when you want to add a custom WooCommerce checkout button or you simply want to add a WooCommerce checkout checkbox that appears dynamically, you may want to understand all the WooCommerce checkout javascript events before you can begin the customization.

WooCommerce Checkout JavaScript Events

As I have mentioned there are several WooCommerce JavaScript events that you can tap into to customize the WooCommerce checkout experience to make it unique.

A common example I always work on is a request by clients to customize WooCommerce checkout to appear like Shopify or top behave like checkout on Shopify. If you need this kind of customization, I can help you out since I have done it for clients before.

You can get in touch with me and specify you want to make WooCommerce checkout like Shopify.

Now let us look at the various WooCommerce Checkout JavaScript events that you need to understand. The following is a quick list of all the WooCommerce checkout JavaScript events that you need to know

[php] $( document.body ).trigger( ‘init_checkout’ );
$( document.body ).trigger( ‘payment_method_selected’ );
$( document.body ).trigger( ‘update_checkout’ );
$( document.body ).trigger( ‘updated_checkout’ );
$( document.body ).trigger( ‘checkout_error’ );
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As you can see from the code sample above there are more than a dozen events that occur during WooCommerce checkout. Now let us look at how you can employ most of these events to customize how checkout WooCommerce works.

These WooCommerce JavaScript events are ordinary JQuery Events that you use just like the other frontend jQuery for example in the console below I am doing something when a payment method is selected:

[php] jQuery(document).ready(function(){

jQuery( document.body ).trigger( ‘payment_method_selected’ , function(){
console.log("Payment method selected");

});
});

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Conclusion

In this post, we have looked at the various WooCommerce checkout JavaScript events that define the behavior of WooCommerce during checkout. if you want to understand these codes further, you can feel free to reach out and I will be glad to help you and possibly provide a better working code sample that you can use in your project.