Custom Order Status for WooCommerce

WooCommerce includes a fixed set of order statuses such as Pending, Processing, Completed, and Cancelled. For many stores, these default statuses don't fully reflect their fulfillment workflow. You may need statuses like Awaiting Pickup, Quality Check, Packed, Ready to Ship, or Dispatched to better track orders and keep your team and customers informed. Custom Order Status for WooCommerce lets you create and manage your own order statuses directly from the WooCommerce dashboard. Customize each status with its own label, icon, and color, choose default statuses for supported payment methods, and send email notifications when an order moves to a custom status. Key Features Create Your Own Custom Order Statuses Add your own order statuses to WooCommerce without writing code. For each custom status you can configure:

• Status label
• Status slug
• Icon
• Display color This makes it easier to organize orders according to your own fulfillment process.

Change the Default Order Statuses Choose the default status assigned to new WooCommerce orders. The Lite version also lets you define default statuses for WooCommerce's built-in payment gateways, helping orders enter the correct workflow immediately after checkout. Send Email Notifications for Custom Order Statuses Send email notifications whenever an order changes to a custom status. The Lite version supports global email notifications for both store administrators and customers, helping everyone stay informed throughout the order lifecycle. Bulk Update Orders with Custom Statuses Include custom statuses in WooCommerce Bulk Actions so multiple orders can be updated at once. Custom statuses are also recognized in WooCommerce Analytics reports, providing better visibility into your order workflow. Keep Orders Editable After Status Changes Orders assigned to custom statuses can remain editable whenever needed, and you can also configure them to be treated as paid when appropriate. Common Use Cases Custom Order Status for WooCommerce is ideal for stores that want to:

• Add fulfillment stages such as Packed, Shipped, or Ready for Pickup
• Create custom manufacturing or production workflows
• Improve warehouse and order management processes
• Notify customers when orders reach important milestones
• Manage orders more efficiently using bulk status updates

Documentation & Support

• Visit the WordPress support forums
• Check the documentation for common answers
• Try the live demo to see how the plugin works on the storefront.

If you find the plugin useful, a ⭐ 5-star rating is always appreciated — it helps other store owners discover the plugin. Looking for More Advanced Features? Upgrade to Custom Order Status for WooCommerce Pro to automate order status changes using advanced rules, create payment gateway-specific workflows, customize WooCommerce's default order statuses, send SMS notifications, update stock levels based on custom statuses, allow customer order cancellations for selected statuses, and unlock many more workflow automation features. See the complete Lite vs Pro comparison: https://www.tychesoftwares.com/differences-between-pro-and-lite-versions-of-custom-order-status-for-woocommerce-plugin/ About Tyche Softwares Tyche Softwares has been building WooCommerce plugins since 2009, helping merchants streamline order management, delivery scheduling, pricing, product customization, checkout, and other essential ecommerce workflows. Explore More WooCommerce Plugins Tyche Softwares also develops plugins for abandoned cart recovery, order delivery scheduling, bookings, invoices and packing slips, custom order numbers, product input fields, BOGO offers, payment gateway fees, call for price, role-based pricing, currency management, and other WooCommerce enhancements. Some of our Pro plugins:

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3.0.1 - 28/07/2026

• Fix - Default WooCommerce order status labels are displayed in English instead of the translated labels.

3.0.0 - 30/06/2026

• New - React-based admin interface for Status Manager, Settings, Rules, Emails, SMS, Status by Payments, Labels, and License pages.
• Dev - Introduced a REST API layer (cos-pro/v1) for plugin settings operations.
• Dev - All global plugin settings consolidated from individual alg_orders_custom_statuse_* wp_options rows into a single cos_pro_settings option.
• Update - Compatibility with WordPress 7.0.
• Update - Compatibility with WooCommerce 10.9.1.

2.11.0 - 24/02/2026 Fix – Corrected broken icon code reference link for custom order status icons in settings. 2.10.0 - 03/02/2026

• Enhancement - Added options to make orders with custom order statuses editable and allow them to be marked as paid.

2.9.0 - 06/01/2026

• Tweak - Updated for compatibility with WordPress 6.9.0.
• Tweak - Updated for compatibility with WooCommerce 10.4.3.

2.8.0 - 24/06/2025

• Fix - PHP warning: Undefined array key "status_slug" when a custom order status is moved to trash or deleted.
• Tweak - Updated for compatibility with WooCommerce 9.9.4.

2.7.0 - 15/04/2025

• Fix - Added Plugin Name and Plugin Description strings for translation.
• Fix - PHP Warning: Undefined variable $result when custom status is deleted.
• Fix - Resolved all PHPCS warnings and aligned the code with WordPress Coding Standards to enhance quality and maintainability.
• Tweak - Updated for compatibility with WordPress 6.8.
• Tweak - Updated for compatibility with WooCommerce 9.8.1.

2.6.0 - 22/11/2024

• Fix - Translation loading was triggered too early, causing errors when changing the site language in WordPress 6.7.
• Tweak - Removed the call to our tracking server to fetch the deactivation reasons and added them in the plugin itself.

2.5.0 - 22/10/2024

• Fix - Deactivation survey request was being sent even though 'Skip & deactivate' was selected while deactivating the plugin.
• Fix - Compatibility issue with "ActiveMember360" plugin causing fatal error on frontend.

2.4.1 - 03/04/2024

• Fix - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability.
• Fix - The order page is crashed if the Custom Order Status has "%" sign included.
• Tweak - Update compatibility with WordPress 6.5
• Tweak - Update compatibility with WooCommerce 8.7

2.4.0 - 30/01/2024

• Fix - Fixed Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability.

2.3.0 - 04/07/2023

• Enhancement - Added deactivation survey v2.
• Fix - Compatibility with PHP 8.2.2.
• Fix - Compatibility declaration for WooCommerce Product Editor option.
• Fix - Compatibility with High-Performance Order Storage (COT).
• Fix - "Fallback delete order status" setting was not working.
• Fix - Fatal error upon activation of the plugin when Custom Order Number plugin was installed and activated.

2.2.1 - 29/11/2022

• Fix - Fatal error on the Order Received page.

2.2.0 - 29/11/2022

• Enhancement - Introduced compatibility with WooCommerce High Performance Order Storage.

2.1.1 - 11/05/2022

• Fix - Custom Order Status plugin conflict with Custom order number plugin due to same function name.

2.1.0 - 03/05/2022

• Fix - Duplicate Queries on Custom Order Status page.
• Fix - Plugin setting link was missing on the plugin page.
• Fix - Notice to enable color setting was missing.

2.0.3 - 14/09/2021

• Enhancement - Added an option to select the default status for Cheque and Paypal payment methods.
• Fix - After migration, slugs were coming empty in some site. This is fixed now.
• Fix - When slug in custom order status starts with wc- then order status don't gets changed to that custom order status. This is fixed now.
• Fix - Text color for the custom order status was coming on the orders page even if the settings for enabling color option is kept disabled. This is fixed now.

2.0.2 - 09/04/2021

• Fix - Order status was getting changed when we refresh the Thankyou page. This has been fixed.
• Fix - When we change the slug of the custom order status, orders having that custom status was not seen on the orders page. This has been fixed.

2.0.1 - 01/12/2020

• Enhancement - Added new setting "Enable color" to show background color for the statuses in the order page.
• Fix - When we click on the "Custom Order Status Tool" link from the plugin, it shows an error. This has been fixed.
• Fix - After deleting the plugin old data does not get removed. This has been fixed.
• Fix - Orders are getting deleted which has the custom order status when the plugin is deleted. This has been fixed.
• Fix - The status is not getting changed to the custom one when the status is created with 3 words. This has been fixed.
• Fix - Added icons to the labels. This has been fixed.

2.0.0 - 05/11/2020

• Feature - Added Custom Post Type for custom statuses with the support of previous tool page.
• Feature - Added Global level email function to send the email to customer & admin on change of custom order status.

1.4.11 - 10/09/2020

• Updated compatibility with WordPress 5.5
• Updated compatibility with WC 4.5

1.4.9 - 19/03/2020

• Updated compatibility with WC 4.0.0

1.4.8 - 23/09/2019

• Made the plugin code compliant with WPCS standards.

1.4.7 - 27/03/2019

• Added uninstall.php to ensure the plugin settings are removed from the DB when the plugin is deleted.
• Added check to ensure slugs from WC core cannot be added as custom statuses. This has been done to avoid conflicts.
• Applied some bug fixes to ensure the plugin is in sync with the PRO version.

1.4.6 - 16/11/2018

• Author name and URL updated due to handover of the plugins.

1.4.5 - 31/10/2018

• Compatibility with WooCommerce 3.5.0 tested.

1.4.4 - 16/10/2018

• Feature - Emails - Email content - {order_details} replaced value added.
• Feature - Default order status - "Default order status for BACS / COD" options added (instead of forcing BACS and COD to "default order status", as was added in previous plugin version 1.4.3).

1.4.3 - 15/10/2018

• Dev - Default order status - Forcing BACS and COD payment gateways to "default order status".

1.4.2 - 27/09/2018

• Dev - WPML / Polylang plugins compatibility (wpml-config.xml file) added.

1.4.1 - 23/09/2018

• Feature - "Add custom statuses to admin order preview action buttons" option added.
• Dev - Code refactoring.
• Dev - Minor admin settings restyling.

1.4.0 - 03/09/2018

• Feature - "Emails" section added.
• Feature - "Make custom status orders paid" option added.
• Dev - Code refactoring.
• Dev - Admin settings divided into sections, restyled and descriptions updated.
• Dev - "Enable plugin" option removed.

1.3.5 - 22/06/2018

• Feature - "Make custom status orders editable" option added.
• Dev - Plugin URI updated to wpfactory.com.
• Dev - Settings are saved as main class property.

1.3.4 - 24/05/2018

• Dev - "Advanced: Filters priority" option added.

1.3.3 - 15/05/2018

• Dev - "Text Color" option added.

1.3.2 - 15/05/2018

• Dev - "Enable Colors in Status Column" option added.
• Dev - "WC tested up to" added to the plugin header.

1.3.1 - 10/05/2017

• Fix - Too few arguments to function Alg_WC_Custom_Order_Statuses_Settings_Section::get_settings() fixed.

1.3.0 - 30/04/2017

• Dev - WooCommerce 3.x.x compatibility - Order ID.
• Dev - Custom Order Status Tool - Sanitizing slug before adding new status.
• Dev - Custom Order Status Tool - "Delete with fallback" separate button added. Simple "Delete" button now deletes statuses without any fallback.
• Dev - Custom Order Status Tool - "Edit" functionality moved from Pro to free version.
• Tweak - readme.txt and plugin header updated.
• Tweak - Custom Order Status Tool - Restyled.
• Tweak - Custom Order Status Tool - Code refactoring.
• Tweak - Link changed from coder.fm to wpcodefactory.com.

1.2.1 - 23/01/2017

• Dev - "Reset settings" button added.
• Tweak - readme.txt fixed.

1.2.0 - 17/01/2017

• Fix - Tool - Add - Checking for duplicate default WooCommerce status added.
• Dev - Tool - "Edit" custom status button added.
• Dev - Fallback status on delete.
• Dev - "Add Custom Statuses to Admin Order List Action Buttons" options added.
• Dev - Extended (paid) version added.
• Tweak - Plugin "Tags" updated.

1.1.0 - 14/12/2016

• Fix - load_plugin_textdomain() moved from init hook to constructor.
• Fix - All get_option calls have default value now.
• Dev - Language (POT) file added. Domain 'custom-order-statuses-for-woocommerce' changed to 'custom-order-statuses-woocommerce'.
• Dev - Bulk actions added in proper way for WordPress version >= 4.7.
• Tweak - Donate link updated.

1.0.0 - 12/11/2016

• Initial Release.