<h2>Require Order Approval for Made-to-Order Products</h2>
<p>The <strong>Advanced Order Approval for WooCommerce</strong> extension adds order-approval functionality to your WooCommerce store. With the extension, you can create rules regarding and restricting order approval. Prevent customers from placing orders and making payments upfront or have an easy means to refund payments if you cannot fill their orders.</p>
<p>For custom orders, allow customers to <strong>pay upfront and wait</strong> for your approval, or <strong>wait and pay later</strong> after your approval.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Wait and pay conditions</li>
<li>Pay and wait conditions</li>
<li>Option to restrict specific payment methods to Wait and Pay payment mode</li>
<li>Option to set an expiration date for making the payments of approved orders</li>
<li>Option to send payment reminder emails for unpaid approved orders</li>
<li>Paid orders will refund automatically if you do not approve the orders</li>
<li>Includes a separate table to view and manage the orders that require approvals</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Benefits</strong></h2>
<h4><strong>Reduce unnecessary refunds</strong></h4>
<p>If you restrict upfront payments, you can decide when to bill and can avoid making refunds.</p>
<h4><strong>Convenience for Customers</strong></h4>
<p>Your customers can purchase made-to-order products directly from your store.</p>
<h2><strong>How does it work?</strong></h2>
<h4><strong>Pay and Wait order approval</strong></h4>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>A user adds products to their cart.</li>
<li>On the Cart and Checkout pages, a notice will be displayed informing the user that the order needs manual approval before it can be processed.</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Once the user completes the purchase, they can view the status of the order approval from the My Account page.</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_18734006588012" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734006588012" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734006588012 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Pay-and-Wait_Orders-details_Timeline.png" alt="" width="980" height="592" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734006588012" class="wp-caption-text"><strong>User Waiting for Approval</strong></figcaption></figure>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>The Site Admin can review the orders pending approval in the Advanced Order Approval section.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<h4><strong>Admin post table</strong></h4>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Once the order is approved, the order will be processed. If the order is rejected, the user will be notified.</li>
</ul>
<h4><strong>Wait and Pay order approval</strong></h4>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>A User adds products to their cart.</li>
<li>On the Cart and Checkout pages, a notice will be displayed to inform the user that the order needs manual approval before it can be processed.</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Once the user completes the purchase, they can view the status of the Order Approval on their My Account page.</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>The Site Admin reviews orders pending approval in the Advanced Order Approval section.</li>
<li>Once orders are approved, the user can make the payment for their order from their My Account page.</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Upon successful payment, the order will be processed. If the Order is rejected, the user will be notified.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Extensive Features List</h2>
<h3>Order Approval System</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Route qualifying orders through a <strong>manual approval process</strong> before fulfillment.</li>
<li>Compatible with both <strong>classic checkout</strong> and <strong>WooCommerce Checkout Blocks</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Approval Payment Modes</h3>
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<li><strong>Pay and Wait</strong>: Customers <strong>pay upfront</strong> and orders await approval.</li>
<li><strong>Wait and Pay</strong>: Customers place orders <strong>without payment</strong> and receive a <strong>payment link</strong> after approval. Unpaid approvals <strong>expire</strong> after a configurable period.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Approval Statuses</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Track approvals through <strong>New, On-hold, Approved, Rejected,</strong> and <strong>Expired</strong> statuses.</li>
<li>Trigger automated actions and <strong>email notifications</strong> as statuses change.</li>
<li>Allow administrators to manually update <strong>approval statuses</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Rule-Based Approval Criteria</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Create multiple <strong>approval rules</strong> with independent settings and payment modes.</li>
<li>Combine criteria using <strong>AND/OR</strong> logic for advanced workflows.</li>
<li>Configure rules based on:
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Order totals</strong> and <strong>cart subtotals</strong></li>
<li><strong>Product quantities</strong></li>
<li>Included or excluded <strong>products</strong> and <strong>categories</strong></li>
<li>Specific <strong>users</strong> and <strong>user roles</strong></li>
<li><strong>Shipping methods</strong></li>
<li><strong>Date ranges</strong> and <strong>weekdays</strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Rule Configuration</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Assign a <strong>payment mode</strong> and eligible payment gateways to each rule.</li>
<li><strong>Activate, deactivate,</strong> and <strong>bulk manage</strong> approval rules.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Cart & Checkout Controls</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Display customizable <strong>approval notices</strong> when approval is required.</li>
<li><strong>Allow checkout only through selected payment gateways</strong>.</li>
<li>Automatically remove <strong>non-qualifying products</strong> from the cart.</li>
<li>Support <strong>dynamic placeholders</strong> to display removed product names in error messages.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Payment Deadlines & Expiry</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Set <strong>payment deadlines</strong> for approved Wait and Pay orders.</li>
<li>Automatically calculate and track <strong>expiry dates</strong>.</li>
<li>Mark approvals as <strong>Expired</strong> when payment is not completed on time.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Payment Reminders</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Send automated <strong>payment reminder emails</strong> before payment deadlines.</li>
<li>Configure <strong>custom reminder schedules</strong>.</li>
<li>Allow administrators to manually <strong>resend reminders</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Approval Management</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Manage approvals from a dedicated <strong>admin screen</strong>.</li>
<li>View and <strong>edit approval details, customer information, order items,</strong> and <strong>payment data</strong>.</li>
<li>Link directly to related <strong>WooCommerce orders</strong> and customer approvals.</li>
<li>Display <strong>approval statuses</strong> within the WooCommerce Orders list.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Customizable Messages</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Configure customer-facing <strong>notices</strong> and <strong>error messages</strong>.</li>
<li>Personalize <strong>approval-related checkout messages</strong>.</li>
<li>Support <strong>dynamic placeholders</strong> for product information.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Wait and Pay Gateway</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Include a dedicated <strong>Wait and Pay payment gateway</strong>.</li>
<li>Customize the gateway’s <strong>title</strong> and <strong>description</strong>.</li>
<li>Display the gateway only when applicable <strong>approval rules</strong> are matched.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Custom Styling</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Apply <strong>Custom CSS</strong> to modify frontend and admin appearances without editing plugin files.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Download the <strong>Advanced Order Approval</strong> extension to streamline the order-approval process for made-to-order products.</p>
<h3><strong>Requirements</strong></h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.6</p>

Advanced Order Approval

<p>Streamline the order-approval process for made-to-order products with the Advanced Order Approval extension for WooCommerce.</p>

<h2 style="text-align: center"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Alert Customers When Products Restock or Prices Change</span></h2>
<p>Back in Stock and Price Alert extension for WooCommerce allows your customers to subscribe to restock notifications on out-of-stock products.</p>
<p>You can enable a stock alert subscription for specific out-of-stock products and send an automatic email when products restock. The extension maintains a separate grid to list all subscribers with their current subscription status, products subscribed for, and more. You can filter subscribers by products and subscription statuses.</p>
<p>You can also enable price alert subscription on selected price sensitive products to let customers subscribe for price drop email alerts. You can choose to trigger automatic email notifications when prices drop or increase. This feature can bring back price-cautious customers by offering price cuts. The extension lists all subscribers in a separate grid to let admins filter by product and subscription status.</p>
<h2><strong>Features of back-in-stock notifications</strong></h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list">
<li>Enable subscription forms for out-of-stock products</li>
<li>Display subscription boxes for specific products, categories, and user roles</li>
<li>Automatically send email notifications when products restock</li>
<li>Allow subscription boxes to backorder products</li>
<li>Add minimum restock count to trigger email alerts</li>
<li>Customizable subscription box text, buttons, and success and failure messages</li>
<li>Customizable email notifications with unsubscribe links</li>
<li>A dashboard to view the most-subscribed products, total counts, and more</li>
<li>Grid view of restock-subscribed user details along with emails</li>
<li>Ability to filter grid views by product and subscription statuses</li>
<li>Includes privacy policy text with a checkbox</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Features of price alerts</strong></h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list">
<li>Enable price alerts for specific products and user roles</li>
<li>Trigger email notifications in case of price drops or increases</li>
<li>Customizable subscription-box texts, buttons, and success and failure messages</li>
<li>Customizable email notifications with unsubscribe links</li>
<li>A dashboard view of the total number of subscribed users and most subscribed products</li>
<li>Grid view of subscribed user details along with emails</li>
<li>Ability to filter grid views by product and subscription statuses</li>
<li>A dashboard to view the most-subscribed products, total count, and more</li>
<li>Grid view of price-alert subscribed user details along with emails</li>
<li>Ability to filter grid view by product and subscription statuses</li>
<li>Include privacy policy text with a checkbox</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Dashboard</h2>
<p>The <strong>Back in Stock and Price Alert</strong> extension for WooCommerce comes with a powerful dashboard that displays the total number of subscriptions, last subscriptions, alerts sent, and the most-subscribed products for out-of-notification and price alerts.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8481512" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Dashboard-Instock-and-price-alert-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="639" /></p>
<h2><strong>Back in stock notifications</strong></h2>
<p>You can configure restock notifications for specific products, categories, and user roles. You can also add minimum stock amounts to trigger email notifications, customize subscription box labels, buttons, success, and unsubscribed and fail messages.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8481510" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Restock-Settings-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="1810" /></p>
<h3><strong>Manage restock subscribers</strong></h3>
<p>You can view details of users subscribed for out-of-stock products to get automatic notifications when items restock. The grid shows important information about subscriptions such as subscriber names, email addresses, product names, subscription dates, current statuses, and last email notifications. The grid enables you to filter subscribers by subscription statuses (subscribed or unsubscribed) and products.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8481514" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Stock-Alerts-Grid-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="677" /></p>
<h2><strong>Price-increases and price drop alerts</strong></h2>
<p>You can choose to enable the price-alert subscription form on selected products, categories, and user roles. Trigger email notifications on price drops, price increases, or both. You can also customize button labels and custom messages.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8481509" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Price-alert-Settings-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="1504" /></p>
<h3><strong>Manage price-alert subscribers</strong></h3>
<p>The grid view allows you to see the list of subscribers by names, email addresses, product names, subscription dates, waiting times, current statuses, and last email notifications. The grid enables you to filter subscribers by subscription status (subscribed or unsubscribed) and products.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8481508" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Price-Alert-subscriptions-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="843" /></p>
<h2><strong>Email notifications</strong></h2>
<p>You can configure seven emails notifications for admins and customers.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list">
<li>Email to admins when there are new-stock alert subscriptions</li>
<li>Email to admins when there are new-price alert subscriptions</li>
<li>Email to customers when there are new restock subscriptions</li>
<li>Email to customers when they enable price-alert subscriptions</li>
<li>Email to customers when product prices increase</li>
<li>Email to customers when product prices drop</li>
<li>Email to customers when products restock</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8481617" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Email-notifications-1.jpg" alt="" width="980" height="1848" /></p>
<h2><strong>Email logs</strong></h2>
<p>The extension records all email notifications sent to customers for price alerts, restocks, and more.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8481513" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Email-Logs-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="672" /></p>

Back in Stock and Price Alert

<p>Allow your customers to subscribe for out of stock products and receive automatic email when product is back in stock.</p>

Advanced Order Approval vs Back in Stock and Price Alert