Order Status Rules for WooCommerce Plugin
Automate WooCommerce order statuses. Beautifully.
Order Status Rules for WooCommerce plugin lets you schedule automatic WooCommerce order status changes.
For example: automatically change order status to cancelled, when 24 hours have passed since order status was set to pending.
✅ Order Status Rule Options
- Order status from.
- Order status to.
- Time trigger (in seconds, minutes, hours, days or weeks).
- Minimum and maximum order amount and order quantity.
- Required payment gateways.
- Required shipping methods.
- Required billing and shipping countries.
- Required products, product categories, product tags or product stock status.
- Required users, user roles or billing emails.
- Required coupons.
- And more…
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Installation
- Upload the entire plugin folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/
directory. - Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
- Start by visiting plugin settings at “WooCommerce > Settings > Order Status Rules”.
Changelog
3.5.3 – 13/06/2024
- Dev – Conditions – Order meta – “Meta compare” option added (defaults to “Equals”).
- WC tested up to: 8.9.
- WooCommerce added to the “Requires Plugins” (plugin header).
3.5.2 – 30/04/2024
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – Order Users – Paying customer – Possible PHP warning fixed.
- Tested up to: 6.5.
- WC tested up to: 8.8.
3.5.1 – 06/03/2024
- Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
- WC tested up to: 8.6.
3.5.0 – 30/01/2024
- Dev – Rule – “Skip dates” option added.
- Dev – PHP 8.2 compatibility – “Creation of dynamic property is deprecated” notice fixed.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
- Tested up to: 6.4.
- WC tested up to: 8.5.
3.4.2 – 23/09/2023
- WordPress plugin logo, banner updated.
3.4.1 – 20/09/2023
- Dev – Developers –
alg_wc_order_status_rules_wc_get_orders
filter added. - WC tested up to: 8.1.
3.4.0 – 04/09/2023
- Fix – Declaring HPOS compatibility for the free plugin version, even if the Pro version is activated.
- Dev – Advanced – Orders Query – “Max orders” option added (defaults to
-1
). - Tested up to: 6.3.
- WC tested up to: 8.0.
3.3.0 – 16/07/2023
- Dev – Advanced – Process rules on – “Subscription status changed” and “Admin “Edit subscription” page” options added.
- Dev – Advanced – “Statuses” option added. Possible values: “WooCommerce Order Statuses” and “WooCommerce Subscription Statuses”. Defaults to “WooCommerce Order Statuses”.
- Dev – Advanced – “Save status change on” option added. Possible values: “Order status changed” and “Subscription status changed”. Defaults to “Order status changed”.
- Dev – Advanced – “Meta box” option added. Possible values: “Orders” and “Subscriptions”. Defaults to “Orders”.
- Dev – Advanced – Orders Query – “Order types” option added. Possible values: “Orders” and “Subscriptions”. Defaults to “Orders”.
- Dev – Advanced – Admin settings – “Rules processing hooks” renamed to “Process rules on”.
- Dev – Admin settings sections rearranged – “Tools”, “My Account”, “Extra” sections added. “Advanced > Orders Query Options” subsection added.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
- Dev – Developers –
alg_wc_order_status_rules_wc_get_orders_args
filter added.
3.2.0 – 10/07/2023
- Dev – “High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)” compatibility.
3.1.0 – 04/07/2023
- Dev – Advanced – “Default order status” option added.
- Dev – Advanced – “Process Payment Order Status” options added (“Direct bank transfer”, “Check payments”, “Cash on delivery (COD)”).
3.0.3 – 26/06/2023
- Dev – Developers –
alg_wc_order_status_rules_hooks_priority
filter added.
3.0.2 – 18/06/2023
3.0.1 – 08/05/2023
- Tested up to: 6.2.
- WC tested up to: 7.6.
3.0.0 – 10/02/2023
- Fix – Admin settings – General – Reset Settings – Now displaying the correct “Total rules” on settings reset.
- Dev – Admin –
DISABLE_WP_CRON
notice removed. Instead, a similar message added to the “Advanced > Periodical Processing Options” section description. - Dev – Advanced – Rules processing hooks – “Checkout order processed” option added.
- Dev – Advanced – Rules processing hooks – ‘”Thank you” (i.e., “Order received”) page’ option added.
- Dev – Advanced – Rules processing hooks – ‘Admin “Edit order” page’ option added.
- Dev – Order status change history –
get_order_status_change_history()
– Code refactoring.
2.9.3 – 23/01/2023
- Fix – Advanced – Rules processing hooks – Now properly handling the
process_rules_for_order()
callback on order status update (woocommerce_order_status_changed
action). - Dev – Developers –
alg_wc_order_status_rules_check_dates_order_date
filter added. - Tested up to: 6.1.
- WC tested up to: 7.3.
2.9.2 – 17/11/2022
- Dev – Developers –
alg_wc_order_status_rules_before_rule_applied
and alg_wc_order_status_rules_after_rule_applied
actions added. - WC tested up to: 7.1.
2.9.1 – 20/10/2022
- Dev – Admin settings updated.
- Readme.txt updated.
- WC tested up to: 7.0.
2.9.0 – 11/08/2022
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – Products/categories/tags/stock status – “Require all” option is now a dropdown with an additional “Exclude” value.
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Billing emails” option added.
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – Minimum/Maximum amount – “Minimum/Maximum order amount type” options added. Defaults to “Order subtotal”. Another possible value is “Order total”.
- Dev – Admin settings updated; subsections added; etc.
- Dev – Minor code refactoring.
- WC tested up to: 6.8.
2.8.2 – 27/07/2022
- Dev – Process rules – Extra safe-checks added for the orders.
- Dev – Deploy script added.
- Tested up to: 6.0.
- WC tested up to: 6.7.
2.8.1 – 21/04/2022
- Fix – Rule – Conditions – Coupons – “Any coupon” option was ignored (plugin was processing the “Specific coupon(s)” option instead). This is fixed now.
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – Coupons – “No coupons” option added.
2.8.0 – 20/04/2022
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Coupons” options added.
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Paying customer” options added.
- Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
2.7.2 – 15/04/2022
- Fix – Admin settings – Users – “Guest” user was removed by mistake in v2.6.1. This is fixed now.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
2.7.1 – 14/04/2022
- Fix – Advanced – Disabled conditions – “Billing countries” and “Shipping countries” options could not be disabled. This is fixed now.
2.7.0 – 14/04/2022
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Product stock status” options added.
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Billing countries” and “Shipping countries” options added.
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – “All products in the order must match the selection (vs at least one product)” options added to “Products”, “Product categories” and “Product tags” conditions. Defaults to
no
.
2.6.1 – 13/04/2022
- Dev – Admin settings – Users – Using AJAX now.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
- WC tested up to: 6.4.
2.6.0 – 08/04/2022
- Dev – Advanced – “Disabled conditions” option added.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
- WC tested up to: 6.3.
2.5.1 – 26/01/2022
- Dev – Advanced – “Orders sorting” options added.
- Tested up to: 5.9.
- WC tested up to: 6.1.
2.5.0 – 17/01/2022
- Dev – Conditions – Products – Admin settings are using AJAX now.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
- WC tested up to: 6.0.
2.4.1 – 14/12/2021
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – “Date created before” and “Date created after” options added.
2.4.0 – 09/12/2021
- Dev – Rule – Conditions – Order meta – “Multiple meta values” option added (i.e., multiple values are now allowed in the “Meta value” option, as a comma-separated list).
- Dev – Rule – Skip days – Algorithm improved.
- Dev – Order Status History – “No order status rules are scheduled to be applied…” message added.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
- WC tested up to: 5.9.
2.3.0 – 27/10/2021
- Dev – Advanced – Periodical Processing – “Action Scheduler” options added.
- Dev – Advanced – “Rules processing hooks” option added (defaults to
Order status changed
). Can be filtered with the alg_wc_order_status_rules_hooks
filter. - Dev – Advanced – Admin settings rearranged: “Periodical Processing Options”, “Order Status History Options” subsections added. Settings descriptions updated.
2.2.0 – 22/10/2021
- Fix – Admin settings – The issue when “Total rules” option has just been changed, but number of rule settings tabs doesn’t reflect it, is fixed now.
- Dev – Triggering order status rules processing on any order status change now (i.e., rules with zero time triggers will be processed immediately now).
2.1.0 – 21/10/2021
- Dev – Rule – “Shipping methods” option added.
- Dev – Rule – “Minimum order quantity” and “Maximum order quantity” options added.
- Dev – Advanced – “On non-matching order status” option added.
- Dev – Safe-checks added when retrieving order’s payment gateway.
- Dev – Admin “Rule” settings restyled (“Conditions” subsection added).
- Dev – Code refactoring.
- WC tested up to: 5.8.
2.0.0 – 06/09/2021
- Dev – Admin settings rearranged. Now each order status rule has its own settings section. Tools moved from the “Advanced” section to the “General” section.
- Dev – Rule – “Order meta” options added.
- Dev – Optional
alg_wc_order_status_rules_process_rules_redirect
URL param added. - Dev – Developers –
alg_wc_order_status_rules_do_apply_rule
filter added. - Dev – Developers –
alg_wc_order_status_after_save_settings
filter renamed to alg_wc_order_status_rules_after_save_settings
.
1.9.0 – 25/08/2021
- Dev – Rule – “User roles” option added.
- Dev – Rule – “Users” option added.
- Dev – Rule – Minimum/Maximum order amount – Decimal values are allowed in settings now (step set to
0.000001
). - WC tested up to: 5.6.
1.8.1 – 11/08/2021
- Dev – Rule – “Minimum order amount” and “Maximum order amount” options added.
- Dev – Rule – Admin settings – “Select all” and “Deselect all” buttons added to all “multiselect” options.
1.8.0 – 02/08/2021
- Dev – Rule – Time trigger – It’s possible to set the value to zero now.
- Dev – Advanced & Tools – “My Account > Orders” options added.
- Dev – Advanced & Tools – On empty order status change history – Defaults to “Use order date modified” now.
- Dev – Save status change – Hook priority set to
10
now (was PHP_INT_MAX
). - Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
1.7.0 – 29/07/2021
- Fix – PHP error fixed. Was occurring when creating a new order by admin with “On empty order status change history” option set to “Use order date …”.
- Dev – Advanced – Compatibility Options – “Doctreat” option added.
- Dev – Debug – Now adding to the log if rules was processed manually (i.e., via “Tools > Run all rules now”).
- Dev – Plugin is initialized on
plugins_loaded
action now. - Dev – Code refactoring.
- Tested up to: 5.8.
- WC tested up to: 5.5.
1.6.1 – 13/05/2021
- Fix – “PHP Parse error” fixed.
1.6.0 – 11/05/2021
- Dev – Rule – “Products” option added.
- Dev – Rule – “Product categories” option added.
- Dev – Rule – “Product tags” option added.
- Dev – Order Status History – Descriptions updated in the meta box, e.g., rule title added.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
1.5.0 – 20/04/2021
- Dev – Rule – “Payment gateways” option added.
- Dev – Admin settings restyled: new “Advanced & Tools” section added.
- Dev – Minor code refactoring.
- Tested up to: 5.7.
- WC tested up to: 5.2.
1.4.0 – 26/02/2021
- Dev – Advanced – Use WP cron – “WP cron interval” option added (defaults to “Once Hourly”).
- Dev – Advanced – “On empty order status change history” option added.
- Dev – Rule – Time trigger – “Unit” option added (defaults to “hour(s)”).
- Dev – Rule – Time trigger – Defaults to
1
now. - Dev – Advanced – “Debug” option added.
- Dev – Localization –
load_plugin_textdomain()
moved to the init
hook. - Dev – Admin descriptions updated.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
- Tested up to: 5.6.
- WC tested up to: 5.0.
1.3.1 – 17/09/2020
- Dev – Allow rules processing via URL – Hook priority increased.
1.3.0 – 15/09/2020
- Dev – Advanced – “Use WP cron” option added (defaults to
yes
). - Dev – Advanced – “Allow rules processing via URL” option added (defaults to
no
). This is an alternative to WP crons (i.e., allows using “real” (i.e., server) cron jobs instead). - WC tested up to: 4.5.
- Tested up to: 5.5.
1.2.0 – 27/03/2020
- Fix – “Reset settings” admin notice fixed.
- Dev – Tools – “Run all rules now” tool added.
- Dev – “Next cron event is scheduled on …” info added to admin settings.
- Dev – Code refactoring.
- Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated.
- WC tested up to: 4.0.
- Tested up to: 5.3.
1.1.0 – 11/07/2019
- Dev – Admin settings descriptions updated. “Your settings have been reset” notice added.
- Dev – “Total rules” default value changed to
1
. - Dev – Rule – “Admin title (optional)” option added.
- Dev – Rule – “Enable/Disable” default value changed to
no
. - Dev – Code refactoring.
- Plugin URI updated.
- Tested up to: 5.2.
- WC tested up to: 3.6.
1.0.1 – 07/06/2018
- Fix – Break added in
process_rules()
function, so multiple status updates wouldn’t happen at once. - Dev – “Skip days” rules options added.
1.0.0 – 16/05/2018