<h2>Manage and automate order approvals with flexible rules based on products, categories, tags, and user roles</h2>
<p>Managing orders manually can be time-consuming and prone to errors, especially when dealing with different customer types, payment delays, or high-volume sales. Unapproved or unpaid orders can slow down your workflow.</p>
<p>Order Approval System gives you complete control over how orders are approved in your store. With this extension, you can create customizable rules to manage approvals based on payment status, user roles, and product details. Whether you want to auto-approve certain orders, require manual approval, or set payment deadlines, this plugin ensures a smooth and organized order management process.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Order approval based on different conditions.</li>
<li>Set a payment window for orders, with automatic cancellation if unpaid.</li>
<li>Create multiple order approval rules.</li>
<li>Flexible approval workflows: pay first, approve first, or auto-approve.</li>
<li>Apply rules to specific user roles.</li>
<li>Assign rules to individual products, categories, or tags.</li>
<li>Include or exclude products, categories, or tags in rules.</li>
<li>Automate order approvals to save time and reduce errors.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Payment within allowed days</h2>
<p>Set the number of days allowed for payment for each order. If a customer does not complete payment within the specified period, the order will be automatically cancelled. This feature helps prevent unpaid orders from cluttering your system.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-18734005984473" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Payment-Within-Allowed-Days.png?w=896" alt="Payment Within Allowed Days" width="896" height="196" /></p>
<h2>Flexible approval workflows</h2>
<p>Take full control over your order management by choosing how each order is processed, with multiple flexible workflow options to suit different payment and approval scenarios:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Pay and Wait for Approval</b>: Customers pay first, and orders require manual approval.</li>
<li><b>Wait for Approval and Pay</b>: Orders must be approved before customers can complete payment.</li>
<li><b>Auto Approve Orders</b>: Automatically approve selected orders, eliminating manual intervention.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005984483" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Flexible-Approval-Workflows.png?w=861" alt="Flexible Approval Workflows" width="861" height="240" /></p>
<h2>Auto-approve orders</h2>
<p>Reduce manual work by automating order approvals for selected scenarios. Auto approval ensures that trusted or low-risk orders are processed quickly, improving efficiency and customer satisfaction.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005984488" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Auto-Approve-Orders.png?w=863" alt="Auto Approve Orders" width="863" height="254" /></p>
<h2>Create rules based on user role</h2>
<p>Apply approval rules to specific user roles. This feature allows store owners to have different approval processes for wholesale, retail, or VIP customers. If no roles are selected, the rules apply to all customers.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005984489" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Create-Rules-Based-on-User-Role.png?w=865" alt="Create Rules Based on User Role" width="865" height="127" /></p>
<h2>Assign rules to product, category, and tag</h2>
<p>Easily assign order approval rules to specific products, categories, or tags to tailor your workflow to your store’s needs. This feature allows you to determine exactly which items require approval, giving you full control over your inventory management.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734005984491" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Assign-Rules-to-Product-Category-and-Tag.png?w=886" alt="Assign Rules to Product, Category, and Tag" width="886" height="304" /></p>

Order Approval System

<p>Manage and automate order approvals with flexible rules based on products, categories, tags, and user roles.</p>

<p>The <strong>Invoice Payment Option</strong> extension for WooCommerce enables you to add a new invoice payment method to let customers place orders without making any payment. Display the new payment option based on user roles, product in cart, order amount, quantity and other conditions.</p>
<p>You can rename the payment method to Pay Later, Pay by Invoice or give it any other name that suits your business requirements. Once the order is placed, the customer will receive the standard WooCommerce order email. If needed, you can also attach invoice PDF with the order emails.</p>
<p>After the order and payment confirmation, you can send a direct payment link using the default WooCommerce feature to let customers pay using the default WooCommerce checkout process. Alternatively, you can choose to receive payment via other channels such as banking checks, cash on delivery, etc.</p>
<h2>Use Cases:</h2>
<p>The following are use cases where this extension can be extremely helpful but not limited to!</p>
<p><strong>B2B Orders:</strong></p>
<p>When working with a company, they usually require an invoice before making the payment. Using this extension, you can allow your customers to place an order without payment. The admin can later on send the payment link to merchants to receive payment via WooCommerce default checkout.</p>
<p><strong>Bulk Orders:</strong></p>
<p>When placing bulk orders, the customers are sometimes reluctant to pay upfront and need assurance before paying. The extension allows them to place orders and once confirmed, they can proceed with the payment.</p>
<h2><strong>Features of Invoice Payment Method</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Automatically creates new payment method “Pay by Invoice”</li>
<li>Customize title, description and default order status</li>
<li>Create multiple rules to show invoice payment method based on
<ul>
<li>Customers and user roles</li>
<li>Specific products, categories or tags</li>
<li>Minimum & maximum order quantity and amount</li>
<li>Country, state, city and zip codes</li>
<li>Shipping method</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Generate and attach PDF invoice with orders emails<strong> (New)</strong></li>
<li>Separate email notification for customer and admin when order is placed using invoice payment option <strong> (New)</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>Customize payment method label:</h2>
<p>Once the extension is installed, you can configure the newly created invoice payment method from WooCommerce > Settings > Payments. You can customize the label and other details of the payment method. You can also configure the default order status for orders placed using this payment option.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8520897" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/invoice-payment-option.png" alt="" width="980" height="553" /></p>
<p>The invoice payment method appears along with other payment methods on the front-end.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8520912" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Invoice-payment-option-frontend.png" alt="" width="980" height="538" /></p>
<h2>Trigger Invoice Payment based on various condition:</h2>
<p>You can create multiple rules to trigger the invoice payment option based on variations conditions like product in cart, order amount, user roles, country and more.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8520902" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Create-restrictions-rules.jpg" alt="" width="980" height="439" /></p>
<p>While creating a new rule, you can configure the following options:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add rule title</li>
<li>Select shipping method (enable invoice payment option for selected shipping method)</li>
<li>Enable invoice payment for virtual products</li>
<li>Enable for selected customers and user roles</li>
<li>Enable for specific cart quantity and amount range</li>
<li>Enable for specific product, product category and tags</li>
<li>Show to selected countries, states, cities or zip codes</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8520901" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Creating-new-rule-for-invoice-payment-method.jpg" alt="" width="980" height="2263" /></p>
<h2>Invoice PDF</h2>
<p>You can attach a customizable PDF invoice with the orders placed using this “Invoice Payment Method”. The extension offers 3 different PDF templates to choose from. You can customize the PDF content and color scheme to match your business needs.</p>
<p>Using the extension settings, you can trigger separate email notifications for both customer and merchants when an order is placed using the invoice payment option.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003700000" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PDF-Invoice-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="912" /></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 7.2</p>

Invoice Payment Option

<p>Order Now and Pay Later! Allow your customers to select invoice payment option during checkout to place orders. Add conditions to show invoice payment options for specific products, categories, countries, cart total, user roles and more.</p>

Order Approval System vs Invoice Payment Option