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AkStackPro – Magento 2 Place Test Orders Extension

Developed an open-source Magento 2 extension that enables administrators and developers to generate real test orders directly from the Magento Admin Panel or CLI, streamlining QA, integration testing, and development workflows while preserving Magento's native order lifecycle.

Open Source / Magento 2 Extension 1 Week Jul 2025
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AkStackPro – Magento 2 Place Test Orders Extension

Project Overview

AkStackPro Place Test Orders is an open-source Magento 2 developer tool built to simplify one of the most repetitive tasks during Magento development—creating test orders.


Instead of manually completing the checkout process for every test, the extension allows administrators and developers to generate real Magento sales orders directly from the Admin Panel or Command Line Interface (CLI) using configurable customer, product, shipping, payment, and address settings.

The module creates genuine Magento orders through the platform's native Quote and Order APIs, making them fully compatible with invoices, shipments, ERP integrations, inventory management, email workflows, payment gateways, and third-party extensions.


To improve the testing experience, the extension includes an interactive Admin Run Script with live progress tracking, execution logs, graceful process stopping, downloadable CSV reports, and inventory pre-validation to prevent failed bulk order generation due to insufficient stock.


The extension also integrates with the AkStackPro Core module, providing a unified administration experience while following Magento 2 best practices, including Dependency Injection, Service Contracts, ACL, multi-store configuration scopes, and modular architecture.

The Challenges

  1. Magento developers spend significant time manually placing orders during development and QA.
  2. Test orders needed to behave exactly like storefront orders.
  3. Bulk order generation required stock validation before execution.
  4. Long-running processes needed real-time progress monitoring.
  5. The extension had to support both Admin UI and CLI workflows.
  6. Multi-store configuration and customer scenarios (guest vs registered) needed to be fully configurable.
  7. Required compatibility with Magento MSI (Multi-Source Inventory).

What I Did

  1. Built a Magento 2 extension for generating real sales orders programmatically.
  2. Added both Admin UI and CLI interfaces for flexible execution.
  3. Implemented configurable customer, product, payment, shipping, and address settings.
  4. Developed a live execution interface with progress bar and per-order logging.
  5. Added graceful stop functionality for long-running processes.
  6. Implemented inventory pre-validation using Magento MSI with catalog inventory fallback.
  7. Generated downloadable CSV execution reports containing successful and failed order attempts.
  8. Integrated the extension into the AkStackPro Core administration suite.
  9. Followed Magento 2 architecture using Dependency Injection, Service Contracts, ACL, XML configuration, and modular design.

The Outcome

  1. Reduced manual checkout time during Magento development and testing.
  2. Accelerated QA cycles by enabling instant order generation.
  3. Simplified testing of payment gateways, shipping methods, ERP integrations, inventory synchronization, invoices, shipments, and email workflows.
  4. Improved developer productivity through automation and reusable configuration.
  5. Delivered an open-source extension that demonstrates advanced Magento backend architecture and developer tooling expertise.
  6. Created a reusable solution suitable for development, staging, and QA environments.

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