<h2>Control which Paid WooCommerce Orders are Automatically Completed</h2>
WooCommerce automatically completes orders for virtual-downloadable products after successful payment, but it won’t autocomplete other orders, as you may need to take actions between when the order is processed and completed. If you sell shippable products, you probably need to ship them before completing the order. If you sell virtual products like services, you probably have to do something between when the order is paid and completed.
However, this isn’t the case for all stores, and you may not need to take any action between when an order is paid for and completed. For example, you may want to auto-complete virtual orders, or even those with products that aren’t virtual or downloadable. Likewise, you may not want any orders to automatically complete at all.
In this case, you can use the WooCommerce Order Status Control extension to get greater control over when paid orders are automatically completed.
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Want to completely prevent orders from automatically completing? You can use this plugin to block virtual + downloadable orders from going right to “completed”.
Need to automatically complete more orders than WooCommerce does by default? You can do that, too. Normally, orders with successful payment are updated from ‘pending’ to ‘processing’. Once the order is processed, you have to manually complete it. If your shop takes a large number of orders that don’t require action while the order is processing, updating the order status to complete for each of those orders is a time commitment that you can instead streamline.
WooCommerce Order Status Control can automatically mark paid orders as ‘complete’ instead of ‘processing’, completing skipping the ‘processing’ status. All it takes is 1 minute to setup and you never have to worry about changing order statuses for paid orders again.
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You can automatically complete paid orders that only contain virtual items, or you can opt to automatically complete all paid orders in your shop, regardless of what type of product the order contains.
<h3>How to Get Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Purchase and download the extension 🙂</li>
<li>Upload and install into your WooCommerce store</li>
<li>Go to WooCommerce > Settings > General, and scroll down to Order Status Control</li>
<li>Choose from All Orders to change the order status to “completed” after successful payment for all orders, Virtual Orders to change the order status only for orders that contain all virtual products, or None to stop auto-completion all together.</li>
<li>That’s it! Sit back and enjoy automated order statuses!</li>
</ol>
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Order Status Control

Use this extension to automatically change the order status to “completed” after successful payment.

<h2>Control Order Status and Auto Complete Orders </h2>
Stores can now successfully speed up the order completion process with the help of the Control Order Status plugin. No matter what the scale of your business and how many orders you process, you can automate the order completion process. 
The process is made efficient by marking orders as complete based on various rules, and these rules are customizable. Without having an automated process for order processing, there are a lot of issues that eCommerce stores face, one of them being delayed orders and error-prone orders. Counter such issues with this order status control plugin, where you get the opportunity to define your specific order completion rules.
<h3>WooCommerce order status control Plugin feature list</h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Rule creation to autocomplete orders</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Set conditions for order types: virtual, paid, and new orders</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Automatically change the order status</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Customizable rules to change order status</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Conditional change of order status</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Define autocomplete order conditions based on: products, user roles, billing countries, shipping countries, quantity ranges, and amount ranges. </li>
</ul>
<h3>Autocomplete Orders With Rule Creation</h3>
Set the orders as complete by defining various rules with the WooCommerce order status control plugin. You can set these rules for different order types that are virtual orders, new orders, and paid orders. By setting rules for autocompleting the orders, you overcome the troubles and struggles of manual order management. 
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<h3>Change Order Status For Different Orders</h3>
Automatically change the orders of different order types to complete when they meet your defined rules. With these rules being set, you can change the status of various order types, like virtual, new, and paid, to complete. Furthermore, with the WooCommerce order status control plugin, you can customize the rules to decide when an order is complete and when not. 
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<h3>Conditional Rules to Autocomplete Orders</h3>
Use the WooCommerce order status control plugin to set various customizable rules and conditions to autocomplete the order. The conditions that you can set are for 
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Products: Choose specific products; applies to all if left empty.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">User Roles: Rules for certain user roles; applies to all if not selected.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Billing Countries: Restrict by billing country; applies globally if empty.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Shipping Countries: Apply based on shipping destination; all countries if not specified.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Quantity Range: Set a minimum and maximum quantity; ignored if empty or 0.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Amount Range: Set order total limits; ignored if empty or 0.</li>
</ul>
With this conditional auto completion of orders, you achieve more precision and accuracy in your order management.
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Control Your Order Status

Control your order status for WooCommerce plugin helps shop admins to complete orders automatically.

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