Status Desk – Custom Order Statuses for WooCommerce

Status Desk adds your own order statuses to WooCommerce — “Packed”, “Shipped”, “Ready for pickup”, “Awaiting stock” — and helps your team move orders through them quickly.

Statuses

• Create unlimited custom order statuses with a stable slug.
• Badge color and icon in the orders list (text color is picked automatically for contrast).
• Choose where each status appears in WooCommerce status lists.
• Ready-to-use example: Packed → Shipped in one click.

Customer emails

• Email the customer when an order moves to a custom status.
• Each email is a regular WooCommerce email (WooCommerce → Settings → Emails): edit subject, heading, text and format, or switch it off.
• Each status email goes to a customer only once per order, so an order moved back and forth does not send the same email twice. Send it again on purpose from the order actions.
• Placeholders: {site_title}, {order_number}, {order_date}, {status}. The template can be overridden in your theme.

Faster order handling

• One-click next-status buttons for your statuses, in the orders list and in the order preview.
• Bulk actions: “Change status to …” for every custom status.

Order behavior per status

• Treat orders as paid.
• Let customers pay for the order (Pay button in My Account).
• Keep order items and totals editable.
• Include or exclude the status in WooCommerce Analytics and reports.
• Show or hide the status in admin lists and filters.

Safe by design

• A status cannot be deleted while any order still uses it — including orders in the Trash.
• Built-in WooCommerce statuses cannot be overwritten.
• Existing orders are never changed automatically.
• Switching from another custom-status plugin? Import its statuses with one click, then deactivate it.

Compatibility

• High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) and legacy order storage.
• Cart and Checkout blocks (the plugin does not change checkout).
• No external requests, no tracking, no custom database tables.

Add-on

An optional add-on for shops with a team, Status Desk Pro, is planned for the WooCommerce Marketplace. Status Desk is complete without it.

More about Status Desk: wedoingood.com/plugins/status-desk