How to change order status in WooCommerce (for beginners, no extra plugins)

Summary

This is a simple, easy-to-follow guide on all the ways you, as a merchant, can manually change the order status of an order in WooCommerce. This guide doesn’t require you to download any plugins or write any code. We show how to change the order status in a standard WooCommerce install.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to:

Change order status from the order list
Change order status from the order edit view

Change order status from the order list

Using the order preview

Each order in the order list has an eye icon next to the name on the order, that when clicked, opens a preview of the order details. Here you can change the order status with a single click. What order statuses are available depends on the current status of the order.

Screenshot of the preview window that opens when the eye icon is clicked in the WooCommerce order list.

If you don’t see the order status you wish to change the order to, you can always click Edit and change the order status from there.

Using bulk actions

Another option for changing the status of a single or multiple orders is to check the boxes next to the orders you wish to change. Then, click Bulk actions and select the order status to change all the selected orders to.

Screenshot of the WooCommerce order list with an arrow pointing to the checkbox for a single order. Screnshot of the WooCommerce order list with an arrow pointing to an item inside the expanded bulk actions dropdown.

Change order status from the order edit view

If you click into an order from the order list, you’ll go into the order edit view. From the order details area, you can change the status using the dropdown under the label Status.

Screenshot of the WooCommerce order edit view with an arrow pointing to where the order status can be changed.

Conclusion

These are the three ways to manually change an order’s status in WooCommerce.