How to Swap the Position of the Billing with Shipping

There was once a client requested to swap the position of the billing with shipping details, because by default WooCommerce displays the Billing info first. But, the client cares more about the shipping address because that is the most important information he needs for him to ship the products.

The first method that comes out of my mind is changing the template. However, I thought it wasn’t very efficient because these pieces of information can be found in the backend, emails and checkout page, which means you need to change all the templates everytime WooCommerce releases an update for the templates.

Therefore, I have discovered this method below to minimise the time taken. Instead of changing the .php templates, I have used hooks in functions.php to change the text:

Step 1: Use this to change all default woocommerce frontend and backend labels:

function wc_custom_addresses_labels( $translated_text, $text, $domain )
{
    switch ( $translated_text )
    {
        case 'Billing Address' : /* Front-end */
            $translated_text = __( 'Shipping address', 'woocommerce' );
            break;
            
        case 'Shipping Address' : /* Front-end */
            $translated_text = __( 'Billing address', 'woocommerce' );
            break;

        case 'Billing details' : // Back-end
            $translated_text = __( 'Shipping Info', 'woocommerce' );
            break;

        case 'Ship to a different address?' :
            $translated_text = __( 'Bill to a different address?', 'woocommerce' );
            break;

        case 'Deliver to a different address?' :
            $translated_text = __( 'Bill to a different address?', 'woocommerce' );
            break;

        case 'Shipping details' : // Back-end
            $translated_text = __( 'Billing Info', 'woocommerce' );
            break;

        case 'Ship to' : // Back-end
            $translated_text = __( 'Bill to', 'woocommerce' );
            break;
    }
    return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'wc_custom_addresses_labels', 20, 3 );

Step 2: This to change the text for error messages:

function customize_wc_errors( $error ) {
 if ( strpos( $error, 'Billing ' ) !== false ) {
 $error = str_replace("Billing ", "", $error);
 } elseif ( strpos( $error, 'Shipping ' ) !== false ) {
 $error = str_replace("Shipping ", "Billing ", $error);
 }
 return $error;
 }
 add_filter( 'woocommerce_add_error', 'customize_wc_errors' );

Step 3: Change address on order emails:

<table id="addresses" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%; vertical-align: top;" border="0">
 <tr>
 <?php if ( ! wc_ship_to_billing_address_only() && $order->needs_shipping_address() && ( $shipping = $order->get_formatted_shipping_address() ) ) : ?>
 <td class="td" style="text-align:<?php echo $text_align; ?>; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;" valign="top" width="50%">
 <h3><?php _e( 'Billing address', 'woocommerce' ); ?></h3>

<p class="text">
 <?php echo get_post_meta($order->ID,'_shipping_first_name', true).' '.get_post_meta($order->ID,'_shipping_last_name', true); ?><br/>
 <?php echo get_post_meta($order->ID,'_shipping_address_1', true).' '.get_post_meta($order->ID,'_shipping_address_2', true); ?><br/>
 <?php echo get_post_meta($order->ID,'_shipping_city', true).'<br/>';
 $state = get_post_meta($order->ID,'_shipping_state', true);
 $state = str_replace('Victoria', 'VIC', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Australian Capital Territory', 'ACT', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Western Australia', 'WA', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Tasmania', 'TAS', $state);
 $state = str_replace('New South Wales', 'NSQ', $state);
 $state = str_replace('South Australia', 'SA', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Queensland', 'QLD', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Northern Territory', 'NT', $state);
 echo $state.' '.get_post_meta($order->ID,'_shipping_postcode', true); ?><br/>
 <?php if (get_post_meta($order->ID,'_shipping_country', true) != 'AU') { echo get_post_meta($order->ID,'_shipping_country', true); } ?>
 </p>
 </td>
 <?php endif; ?>
 <td class="td" style="text-align:<?php echo $text_align; ?>; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;" valign="top" width="50%">
 <h3><?php _e( 'Shipping address', 'woocommerce' ); ?></h3>

<p class="text" style="color: #000000;">
 <?php echo get_post_meta($order->ID,'_billing_first_name', true).' '.get_post_meta($order->ID,'_billing_last_name', true); ?><br/>
 <?php echo get_post_meta($order->ID,'_billing_address_1', true).' '.get_post_meta($order->ID,'_billing_address_2', true); ?><br/>
 <?php echo get_post_meta($order->ID,'_billing_city', true).'<br/>';
 $state = get_post_meta($order->ID,'_billing_state', true);
 $state = str_replace('Victoria', 'VIC', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Australian Capital Territory', 'ACT', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Western Australia', 'WA', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Tasmania', 'TAS', $state);
 $state = str_replace('New South Wales', 'NSQ', $state);
 $state = str_replace('South Australia', 'SA', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Queensland', 'QLD', $state);
 $state = str_replace('Northern Territory', 'NT', $state);
 echo $state.' '.get_post_meta($order->ID,'_billing_postcode', true); ?><br/>
 <?php if (get_post_meta($order->ID,'_billing_country', true) != 'AU') { echo get_post_meta($order->ID,'_billing_country', true); } ?>
 </p>
 </td>
 </tr>
</table>

The above code need to update here woocommerce/emails/email-addresses.php

Here is the Result:

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I believe this post help you to Swap the Position of the Billing with Shipping. Comment out if you have any question.