Automatically Complete WooCommerce Orders
When a WooCommerce order is placed, the customer will pay for it, the order will be fulfilled and the item(s) dispatched, at which point the order will probably be marked as ‘Completed’. This process is supported in WooCommerce and allows the order to go from ‘Pending’, to ‘Processing’, and finally to ‘Completed’ once the products have been sent out. This is fine for orders where a physical item exists, but this seems not correct with virtual orders becuase there is no notion of postage or sending out items. In this case, when someone paid via PayPal we needed to set the order straight to ‘Completed’ once payment had been received, instead of having to manually log into WordPress and update the order status ourselves. The steps below explain how to…