<h1 class="p1" style="text-align: center">Manually Approve Orders</h1>
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.
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.
<h2 class="p1">Why do you need Order Approval for WooCommerce?</h2>
Some customers and orders require special handling. Order Approval for WooCommerce helps you manage your shop and ensure customer satisfaction with their orders. 
B2B orders
For wholesale bulk orders, you may want to review the orders and check the availability status before you confirm the order.
Custom products
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.
Items available to specific customer types
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.
<h2>Features:</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">Easily exclude any item from the approval list via Product-level settings </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Enable cart restriction & prevent mixing of approved and unapproved items </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Approve orders in bulk from WooCommerce orders’ bulk actions</li>
</ul>
<h2>Creating multiple rules for order approvals:</h2>
Create multiple rules to approve orders before or after payment based on various conditions like user roles and products or categories in the cart.
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<h2>Conditions-based order approvals:</h2>
Pay and Wait for approval
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.
Wait for Approval and Pay
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.
Enable approval based on user roles
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.
Validate orders for specific or all products:
Trigger validation based on specific products in customers’ carts. You can choose to enable validation for all or selected products, categories, and tags.
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<h2>Checkout messages, visual timeline and order-approval flow:</h2>
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.
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.
<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>
For more details on customization options, please see the documentation.
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<h2>Email notifications for admins and customers:</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>
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.
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<h3>Requirements</h3>
Minimum PHP version: 5.2

Order Approval

Manually validate new orders based on user roles and products in cart. Receive payment before or after order approval.

<h2>Offer Pickup for Any Product, Anywhere</h2>
The built-in “Local Pickup” shipping method for WooCommerce allows your customers to come to you to pick up their purchased products. While this works great for stores with a single brick-and-mortar location, it poses large issues for stores with multiple locations or distribution centers.
Local Pickup Plus provides a far more robust pickup system for retailers with multiple locations, distribution centers, or pickup sites. Provide pickup locations across the country (or in other countries!), limit pickup to certain items, restrict which products are available at a location, accept scheduled pickups, and more!
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-locations.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-438704" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-locations.png?w=950" alt="WooCommerce Local Pickup Plus pickup locations" width="950" height="611" /></a>
Using Local Pickup Plus, your customers know exactly where to go to pick up their products, and you know where to expect them. Customers will see a list of available pickup locations for each product that can be picked up (or you can opt to only allow one pickup location per order), and can choose locations that that let them receive orders where they want them.
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-cart.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-438783" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-cart.png?w=950" alt="WooCommerce Local Pickup Plus cart" width="950" height="429" /></a>
(<a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/local-pickup-plus/#frontend" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">See more cart options in the documentation</a>.)
<h3>What does Local Pickup Plus add to WooCommerce?</h3>
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<li>Set up multiple pickup locations for the customer to choose a pickup location at checkout</li>
<li>Selected pickup location is displayed in the customer’s Account – View Order page, order emails, and in Order Admin</li>
<li>Allow, require, or restrict pickup for individual products and product categories</li>
<li>Determine if each product can be picked up at a different place, or if only one pickup location is available per order</li>
<li>If you allow per-item pickup locations, you can even limit which products are available at a location!</li>
<li>Set costs or discounts for choosing pickup for a package</li>
<li>Export and import pickup locations via CSV NEW</li>
<li>Notify store managers or locations using a list of email addresses when an order contains a pickup at a given location NEW</li>
<li>Define business days and hours to allow or require selecting a pickup date NEW</li>
<li>Limit the number of pickup appointments available for a time slot NEW</li>
<li>Compatible with several plugins, such as <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/ordercustomer-csv-export/">WooCommerce Customer / Order CSV Export</a> and <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/print-invoices-packing-lists/">WooCommerce Print Invoices & Packing Lists</a></li>
<li>Support for Google Maps Geocoding to sort locations by distance from the customer NEW</li>
<li>Supports multiple shipping methods per order</li>
<li>Use the pickup location as the taxable address</li>
</ul>
<h3>Limit a pickup location’s products – NEW</h3>
Each pickup location can have its own settings for holidays, business hours, and more. However, there maybe greater differences between your locations, too, such as the stock each carries. If certain locations only carry certain products, you can limit which products are available for pickup at a given location.
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-add-location-products.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-438709" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-add-location-products.png?w=820" alt="WooCommerce Local Pickup Plus location products" width="820" height="540" /></a>
If a product is in the cart that’s not available at a location, that location is simply hidden from the list when the customer chooses where to pick up the item.
Note that you must allow pickup on a per-item basis to use this setting.
<h3>Fine-Tune product pickup availability</h3>
Shipping large or hazardous items can be a huge pain for merchants, so you may want to require pickup for these items. With new selectors for product and category pickup availability, you can designate a product as requiring pickup, or a product that cannot be picked up (must be shipped).
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<h3>Allow scheduled pickups</h3>
Sometimes you’ll need to know when a customer is coming to get an order, or to inform them of when your location accepts pickups. Pickup Appointments allow you to set up business hours globally or on a per-location basis, along with holidays, lead time (prep time needed for a pickup), and deadline (maximum days allowed to schedule a pickup).
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Each location can even implement its own schedule, lead time, and deadline if the default doesn’t fit.
If appointments for pickup date are enabled, the customer will be able to choose a date (or will be required to pick one, depending on your settings), and will see the location details and operating hours on the date they choose.
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-set-appointment.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-438787" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-set-appointment.png?w=465" alt="WooCommerce Local Pickup Plus location appointment" width="465" height="259" /></a>
If you offer <a href="https://www.skyverge.com/blog/using-local-pickup-plus-to-support-curbside-takeout-orders/">curbside pickups or takeout orders</a>, you can also limit the number of appointments at the same time.
<h3>Notify Warehouses & Employees – NEW</h3>
When a pickup location is set up, you can add an email notification list for the location. Any time an order contains items from this location, these email addresses will be added as recipients for admin order emails.
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-location-emails.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-438715" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/woocommerce-local-pickup-plus-location-emails.png?w=915" alt="WooCommerce Local Pickup Plus location email list" width="915" height="378" /></a>
<h3>How to Get Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Buy this extension 🙂</li>
<li>Download and install into your WooCommerce store</li>
<li>Configure a pickup location or two</li>
<li>That’s it! Your customers will now be able to pick up their order and you’ll know where to expect them!</li>
</ol>
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Local Pickup Plus

Let customers buy online and pick up in-store with options to pick up products from specific locations, select a pickup date, and more.

Order Approval vs Local Pickup Plus