OrderHue – Custom Order Statuses for WooCommerce

Add a custom order status to WooCommerce, such as “Awaiting stock”, “In production” or “Ready for collection”, and use it everywhere WooCommerce shows a status: the orders list, the order screen, bulk actions, My Account and an email for each status.

Everything below is free, with no limits on the number of statuses.

• Unlimited custom statuses, each with a name, a slug (up to 17 characters, a WooCommerce storage limit) and a colour.

• Coloured badges in the orders list, plus a filter link for each status.

• The order edit screen lists your statuses in the status dropdown.

• Bulk actions (“Change status to …”) on both the new High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) screen and the legacy orders screen.

• “Counts as paid”: WooCommerce treats orders in the status as paid, and customers can download their files, just as with completed orders.

• “Editable”: you can still edit order items while an order is in the status.

• Customers see the status name in My Account → Orders.

• Optional email for each status, to the customer, the store admin or both. It uses the standard WooCommerce email settings and templates, which your theme can override.

• Safe deletion: when you delete a status, you choose where its orders go. They are moved in small background batches (Action Scheduler), so large stores don’t time out. These housekeeping moves send no order emails, review requests or “new order” app notifications.

Built to stay out of your way

• No tracking, no usage data, no account to create and no calls to outside servers.

• Uses WooCommerce’s own order functions, so it works with HPOS on, off or in compatibility (sync) mode.

• Tested with WordPress 7.1, WooCommerce 11.1 and PHP 8.3, with HPOS on, HPOS off and compatibility sync on.

Need statuses to change on their own? OrderHue Pro (paid, separate) adds rules: when an order enters a status, change it, send an email or add a note.