<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>Let your customers book reservations, appointments or rentals on their own — no phone calls required. Save yourself time and fill up your calendar by letting your site do the work for you.</p>
<h2>Let customers book classes, schedule appointments, or reserve items</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2021-07-16-at-09.40.07.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8331041 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2021-07-16-at-09.40.07.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="285" /></a></p>
<p>Whatever options you want to offer to your customers, Bookings makes it possible:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Define set options</b>, like fixed time slots for a class, appointment or guided tour</li>
<li><b>Let customers choose the times that work best</b> by giving them the flexibility to book whatever range they need, like checking into a hotel</li>
</ul>
<p>With either option, you can also<b> block time off as un-bookable</b>, leaving you time to take care of your other priorities and<b> create buffers between bookings</b>, to make sure the schedule works for you.</p>
<p>Get as specific as you want with your time slots—the extension allows for bookings in days, hours, even minutes.</p>
<h2>Book one-on-one appointments or multi-person events</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-395570" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bookings-multiperson@2x.jpg?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="277" /></p>
<p>You can set the minimum and maximum number of participants: limit a booking to one-at-a-time for appointments or let multiple people reserve a class or tour.</p>
<h2>Offer special pricing for groups, days, or individuals</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-395549" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bookings-costs@2x.jpg?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="238" /></p>
<p>Offer discounts for groups or people booking multiple slots, show lower prices for early birds, higher prices on weekends, or special prices for kids. Bookings lets you customize pricing any way you want.</p>
<h2>Show availability in the customer’s time zone</h2>
<p>If your services are online or if you’re shipping something to the customer, display your availability in the customer’s time zone so they book the time they really need. Whether bookings come from New York, New Mexico or New Zealand, they’ll be within the hours you set, so no surprise appointments!</p>
<p>It’s perfect for virtual classes, online appointments, or rentals that need to be delivered to the customer.</p>
<h2>Require confirmation, offer free cancellations — it’s all up to you</h2>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-8331037 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Screen-Shot-2021-07-16-at-09.38.54.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="323" /></p>
<p>Set up confirmations, allowing you time to review before making the booking official. Automatically send out reminders leading up to a booking to reduce no-shows, and set whether bookings can be cancelled.</p>
<h2>Send reminders and reduce no-shows</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-395523" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bookings-keepintouch@2x.jpg?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="300" /></p>
<p>Remind clients about their appointments with handy notification emails when a reservation is made, confirmed, and a day before the booking date.</p>
<p>If you’d like to do more, you can send a special reminder right from your site.</p>
<h2>Never get double-booked</h2>
<p>Avoid double bookings by assigning the needed resources to a particular booking. For example, if your 2:00 bride books a fitting and a stylist until 3:30, that stylist won’t appear available for the bride scheduling a fitting at 3:00. You’ll never have to worry about offering the same resource to two customers at the same time.</p>
<h2>Manage your calendar <em>your</em> way — including syncing with Google Calendar</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7370319 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Markup-2021-01-25-at-16.57.34.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="267" /></p>
<p>Use the calendar view to see how your day or month is shaping up. Update existing bookings or availability, or filter to view specific services or resources.</p>
<p>Still have customers calling in to make bookings the old-fashioned way? Add them manually from the calendar while you’re on the phone.</p>
<p>Manage bookings on your store, and see it reflected on your Google Calendar in 60 seconds or less.</p>
<h2>Give your bookings a boost</h2>
<p>For a fully-customized experience, consider these add-ons other WooCommerce customers use with Bookings.</p>
<ul>
<li>Take a deposit for a reservation with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-deposits/">Deposits</a>.</li>
<li>Use <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/automatewoo/">AutomateWoo</a> to help improve your customer’s experience, decrease cancellations, or even upsell customers after they make bookings with automated booking confirmation or completion emails.</li>
<li>Sell more bookings by presenting a calendar or schedule of available slots in a page or post with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/bookings-availability/">Bookings Availability</a>.</li>
<li>Try our free <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-accommodation-bookings/">Accommodation Bookings</a> add-on, if you have a hotel or B&B</li>
<li>Allow service providers to submit and manage offerings themselves using <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/product-vendors/">Product Vendors</a>.</li>
<li>Offer add-ons for services, such as an oil treatment with a massage, or limited edition merchandise with a group booking for a baseball field, using <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/product-add-ons-integration/">Product Add-Ons</a>.</li>
</ul>

WooCommerce Bookings

<p>Allow customers to book appointments, make reservations, or rent equipment without leaving your site.</p>

Order Approval vs WooCommerce Bookings