Checkout takes several seconds after clicking “Finish order”

Hi,

Improving this delay is probably possible, but you probably don't want to do the necessary changes.
The delay comes either:
- from the emails being sent (so you could disable the email sending during the order creation, or use a faster email sending service, or remove attachments if you have attachments in the emails)
- from a plugin calling a third party service, like a shipping carrier, a payment gateway, analytics, etc.
or a combination of these.
Without these, creating an order take only a fraction of a second.

Regarding your question about adding a message, that's a good idea, but it's not easy to do. It will require some core changes in HikaShop. Now, I think it's a good idea, so we'll be including this in the next version. So I would recommend just updating when we release it.

Hi,

Well, you can run tests:
- first, place an order and measure the delay.
- disable all the order emails in System>Emails and place an order and measure the delay.
- enable back all the order emails, and create a bank transfer payment method and place the order via this and measure the delay (since there is no payment gateway to contact with bank transfer, it is instantaneous).
- continue with the plugins that connect to external services and linked to orders: ShipStation, DHL, MyParcel, Printify, Google Analytics, etc.
By comparing the delays you can figure out which elements add delay to the order creation and by how much.
As far as I know, Joomla doesn't provide event plugin logs, and HikaShop relies on Joomla in order to trigger the plugin events (and thus HikaShop doesn't know which plugin is called and for how long), so it's not possible to know that information without tests like described above.