WooCommerce: Set Custom Order Status for New Orders

 All WooCommerce orders go to either “processing”, “completed”, “on-hold” and other default order statuses based on the payment method and product type.

Sometimes these statuses are not enough. For example, you might need to mark certain orders in a different way for tracking, filtering, exporting purposes. Or you might want to disable default emails by bypassing the default order status changes.

Either way, setting a custom order status automatically once the order is processed is quite easy. And today we’ll see which PHP snippets you need in order to make this work!

WooCommerce: set a custom order status during checkout

PHP Snippet: Assign Custom Order Status during WooCommerce Checkout Process

/** * @snippet       Set Custom Order Status during Checkout * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE * @sourcecode    https://businessbloomer.com/?p=77911 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli * @compatible    WooCommerce 3.5.4 * @donate $9     https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/ */   // --------------------- // 1. Register Order Status   add_filter( 'woocommerce_register_shop_order_post_statuses', 'bbloomer_register_custom_order_status' );   function bbloomer_register_custom_order_status( $order_statuses ){         // Status must start with "wc-"    $order_statuses['wc-custom-status'] = array(                                    'label'                     => _x( 'Custom Status', 'Order status', 'woocommerce' ),    'public'                    => false,                                    'exclude_from_search'       => false,                                    'show_in_admin_all_list'    => true,                                    'show_in_admin_status_list' => true,                                    'label_count'               => _n_noop( 'Custom Status <span class="count">(%s)</span>', 'Custom Status <span class="count">(%s)</span>', 'woocommerce' ),                                 );         return $order_statuses; }   // --------------------- // 2. Show Order Status in the Dropdown @ Single Order and "Bulk Actions" @ Orders   add_filter( 'wc_order_statuses', 'bbloomer_show_custom_order_status' );   function bbloomer_show_custom_order_status( $order_statuses ) {         $order_statuses['wc-custom-status'] = _x( 'Custom Status', 'Order status', 'woocommerce' );          return $order_statuses; }   add_filter( 'bulk_actions-edit-shop_order', 'bbloomer_get_custom_order_status_bulk' );   function bbloomer_get_custom_order_status_bulk( $bulk_actions ) {    // Note: "mark_" must be there instead of "wc"    $bulk_actions['mark_custom-status'] = 'Change status to custom status';    return $bulk_actions; }       // --------------------- // 3. Set Custom Order Status @ WooCommerce Checkout Process   add_action( 'woocommerce_thankyou', 'bbloomer_thankyou_change_order_status' );   function bbloomer_thankyou_change_order_status( $order_id ){    if( ! $order_id ) return;    $order = wc_get_order( $order_id );      // Status without the "wc-" prefix    $order->update_status( 'custom-status' ); }