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!

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' );
}