<h1 class="p1" style="text-align: center"><b>Manually Approve Orders</b></h1>
<p class="p1">Order Approval for WooCommerce extension offers you a seamless solution to manually validate new orders based on user roles or specific products or categories in shopppers’ carts.</p>
<p class="p2">With this extension, you can choose to receive payment before or after orders confirmation. Add custom messages on your checkout page to notify customers about order approvals, and display a visual order-status update on My Account pages.</p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Why do you need </b></span><b>Order Approval for WooCommerce?</b></h2>
<p class="p1">Some customers and orders require special handling. Order Approval for WooCommerce helps you manage your shop and ensure customer satisfaction with their orders.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><b>B2B orders</b></p>
<p class="p1">For wholesale bulk orders, you may want to review the orders and check the availability status before you confirm the order.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>Custom products</b></p>
<p class="p1">Custom orders require special handling. Enable manual validation on made-to-order products where the availability, delivery time, custom details, and other aspects of the items may need to be checked and finalized.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>Items available to specific customer types</b></p>
<p class="p2">Some products can only be sold and shipped to authorized dealers or qualified customers (sometimes restricted by age or location). You can automatically require manual validation on orders for these products. After a customer orders, you can validate customer information and move the order to the next stage or cancel it.</p>
<h2><strong>Features:</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li class="li1">Manually approve new orders</li>
<li class="li1">Receive payment before or after validation</li>
<li class="li1">Validate all or specific orders based on
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li1">User roles</li>
<li class="li1">Products in carts (products, product categories, tags or brands)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="li1">Display order status information on the order detail page (My Account)</li>
<li class="li2">Email notifications for admin and customers about order statuses</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Easily exclude any item from the approval list via Product-level settings </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Enable cart restriction & prevent mixing of approved and unapproved items </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Approve orders in bulk from WooCommerce orders’ bulk actions</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Creating multiple rules for order approvals:</strong></h2>
<p class="p1">Create multiple rules to approve orders before or after payment based on various conditions like user roles and products or categories in the cart.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8507370" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Create-multiple-rules-1.jpg" alt="" width="980" height="289" /></p>
<h2><strong>Conditions-based order approvals:</strong></h2>
<p class="p1"><b>Pay and Wait for approval</b></p>
<p class="p1">The Pay and Wait for Approval option enables you to receive the payment first and move the order to the validation stage. Then, the store admin can review the order and validate it or reject it. Once rejected, the order moves to canceled status, and a refund is issued. If approved, the admin can move the order to processing or any other relevant order status.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>Wait for Approval and Pay</b></p>
<p class="p1">With the Wait for Approval and Pay option, you can choose to receive payments after approvals. You can even run both simultaneously for different products, categories, product tags, and user roles.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>Enable approval based on user roles</b></p>
<p class="p1">You can choose to trigger approval based on selected user roles. You may want to manually validate bulk orders placed by wholesalers and allow general customers to place orders without manual validations.</p>
<p class="p1"><b>Validate orders for specific or all products:</b></p>
<p class="p1">Trigger validation based on specific products in customers’ carts. You can choose to enable validation for all or selected products, categories, and tags.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8507372" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Wait-and-pay-after-approval.jpg" alt="" width="980" height="1080" /></p>
<h2><strong>Checkout messages, visual timeline and order-approval flow:</strong></h2>
<p class="p1">The extension offers multiple customizable messages to display on checkout and Thank You pages. They notify customers about the order approval during the checkout process.</p>
<p class="p1">When a customer places an order, a visual status update can display on the order detail page to notify customers about the current status of their orders. The pay button would appear only when the Wait for Approval and Pay option option is selected.</p>
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li2">Enable or disable the timeline</li>
<li class="li2">Customize order statuses and updates</li>
<li class="li2">Disable cancel button</li>
<li class="li2">Add custom labels and colors for cancel and pay buttons</li>
<li class="li1">Customize checkout and Thank You page messages</li>
</ul>
<p class="p1">For more details on customization options, please see the documentation.</p>
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<h2><strong>Email notifications for admins and customers:</strong></h2>
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li1">Email notifications for admins when a new order is placed and requires approval</li>
<li class="li2">Email notifications for customers when a new order requires manual approval</li>
<li class="li2">Email notifications for customers when an order is approved</li>
<li class="li1">Email notifications for customers when an order is rejected</li>
</ul>
<p class="p1">All email notifications will automatically include standard order details including the billing and shipping addresses. To customize email subject lines and headings, go to WooCommerce > Settings > Emails.</p>
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<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.2</p>

Order Approval

<p class="p1">Manually validate new orders based on user roles and products in cart. Receive payment before or after order approval.</p>

<p><strong>Conditional Shipping and Payments</strong> gives you a streamlined way to restrict the shipping methods, payment gateways, and shipping destinations available to your customers.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Make <strong>free shipping</strong> available <strong>per product</strong>, <strong>category</strong>, or <strong>shipping class</strong>.</li>
<li>Restrict shipping methods and live rates based on <strong>package weight</strong>, <strong>item count</strong>, or <strong>cart total</strong>.</li>
<li>Prevent individual products or categories from being shipped to restricted <strong>countries</strong>, <strong>states</strong>, and <strong>zip codes</strong>.</li>
<li>Limit shipping and payment options to specific customers and <strong>customer roles</strong>, such as <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">membership</a> holders or wholesale customers.</li>
<li>Use specific payment gateways for purchasing <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">subscriptions</a>, or offer free shipping with subscription renewals.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Restrict Shipping Methods</h2>
<p>Create rules to disable or hide <strong>shipping methods</strong> conditionally:</p>
<ul>
<li>Per product, category or shipping class.</li>
<li>By weight, item quantity, or cart total.</li>
<li>When activating a coupon code.</li>
<li>When purchasing <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">subscriptions</a>.</li>
<li>For individual customers, customer roles or <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">site members</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Restrict Payment Gateways</h2>
<p>Conditionally restrict or hide <strong>payment gateways</strong>:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>By shipping method, country, state or postcode.</li>
<li>Depending on the chosen billing country.</li>
<li>Based on order total or currency.</li>
<li>By product, product category or shipping class.</li>
<li>When paying for <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">subscriptions</a>.</li>
<li>For individual customers, customer roles, or <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">members</a> of your site.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Create Shipping Country and State Restrictions</h2>
<p>Create rules to prevent customer orders from being shipped to specific shipping countries or states in order to comply with customs import regulations, or shipping carrier terms. Build per product shipping rules, or custom conditional rules based on:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Product categories or shipping classes in the cart.</li>
<li>Cart or shipping package totals.</li>
<li>Customer roles or <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">memberships</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<p>Want to learn more? Check out the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-conditional-shipping-and-payments/#reference" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">documentation</a> for a complete list of all conditions available in the extension.</p>
<h2>Stay Focused on What Matters</h2>
<p>Struggling with scattered snippets and plugins with limited functionality? It’s never too late to clean up your site!</p>
<p>Conditional Shipping and Payments allows you to create both <strong>global</strong> or <strong>per product</strong> restrictions. No matter which approach you choose, the extension keeps your site clean and helps you quickly track down every single shipping and payment method restriction on your site.</p>
<p>Running a high-traffic store? The extension leverages all caching optimizations built into WooCommerce and loads only the components needed to evaluate the rules you’ve built. This ensures that Conditional Shipping and Payments will never slow you down.</p>
<p>We’ve written over 2000 automated tests to ensure that all features will work as expected, update after update, so you can stay focused on what matters the most: Your business — not your plugins!</p>
<h2>Customize and Extend It</h2>
<p>Conditional Shipping and Payments comes with more than 10 integrations with popular extensions, such as <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Subscriptions</a>, <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Memberships</a> and <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/gift-cards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gift Cards</a> — and the list keeps growing!</p>
<p>Need to build a custom condition? Use actions and filters to <strong>add new conditions</strong>, <strong>customize</strong> the extension, or even build <strong>new types of cart/checkout restrictions</strong> from scratch.</p>
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<p>Looking for a way to create <strong>weight based shipping</strong> rules in WooCommerce? Don’t forget to check out <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/table-rate-shipping/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping</a>.Wondering which extension is right for you?</p>
<p>Use <strong>Conditional Shipping and Payments</strong> to conditionally enable existing shipping methods and exclude live rates supplied by courier APIs, such as <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/ups-shipping-method/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UPS</a>.</p>
<p>Use <strong>Table Rate Shipping</strong> to create rule-based shipping rates in existing shipping zones.</p>
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<div class="woo-sc-box normal">Conditional Shipping and Payments is compatible with the new <a href="https://woocommerce.com/checkout-blocks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cart and Checkout blocks</a> — a customizable, conversion-optimized checkout experience available in WooCommerce core.</div>

Conditional Shipping and Payments

<p>Use conditional logic to restrict the shipping and payment options available on your store.</p>

Order Approval vs Conditional Shipping and Payments