How to move orders to auto-completed status in WooCommerce
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If you’re interested in saving valuable time and streamlining the order management process on your website, you may want paid orders to be automatically marked as “completed” – without having to log into the management interface and manually go through each order.
Typically, after a successful payment, the order goes into a “Processing” status, and then needs to be updated to “Completed” manually (or through additional automation). The following code skips the “Processing” stage and updates the order directly to “Completed” once the payment is successfully completed.
Important to know: Some payment plugins allow you to set the order status after a successful payment – so you can set the order to be automatically marked as “completed” without the need for any code.
This code is especially useful on sites where physical delivery of products is not required (such as digital downloads, online courses, donations, etc.), so the processing step can be bypassed.
Status change completed for all orders types
add_action( 'woocommerce_payment_complete', 'auto_complete_paid_orders' );
function auto_complete_paid_orders( $order_id ) {
if ( ! $order_id ) return;
$order = wc_get_order( $order_id );
$order->update_status( 'completed' );
}
Status change completed if the products are virtual
Transfer to Sestos is completed only if all products in the cart do not require shipping.
add_action( 'woocommerce_payment_complete', 'auto_complete_digital_orders_only' );
function auto_complete_digital_orders_only( $order_id ) {
if ( ! $order_id ) return;
$order = wc_get_order( $order_id );
$digital_only = true;
foreach ( $order->get_items() as $item ) {
$product = $item->get_product();
if ( $product && $product->needs_shipping() ) {
$digital_only = false;
break;
}
}
if ( $digital_only ) {
$order->update_status( 'completed' );
}
}
Status change is complete if the products are from a specific product category
Here is a version of the code that automatically completes only orders where all products belong to a specific category
Note that in line 6, replace with the slug of the desired category (not the visible name but the URL ID)
add_action( 'woocommerce_payment_complete', 'auto_complete_orders_by_category' );
function auto_complete_orders_by_category( $order_id ) {
if ( ! $order_id ) return;
$order = wc_get_order( $order_id );
$target_category = 'slug'; // Here you will enter the slug of the desired category
$all_products_in_category = true;
foreach ( $order->get_items() as $item ) {
$product = $item->get_product();
if ( ! $product || ! has_term( $target_category, 'product_cat', $product->get_id() ) ) {
$all_products_in_category = false;
break;
}
}
if ( $all_products_in_category ) {
$order->update_status( 'completed' );
}
}
