<h2>Control which Paid WooCommerce Orders are Automatically Completed</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In this case, you can use the <strong>WooCommerce Order Status Control extension</strong> to get greater control over when paid orders are automatically completed.</p>
<figure id="attachment_164230" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-164230" style="width: 773px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/woocommerce-order-status-control-setting.png"><img class="size-large wp-image-164230" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/woocommerce-order-status-control-setting.png?w=773" alt="WooCommerce Order Status Control: settings" width="773" height="481" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-164230" class="wp-caption-text">Auto-Complete settings</figcaption></figure>
<p>Want to completely prevent orders from automatically completing? You can use this plugin to block virtual + downloadable orders from going right to “completed”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<figure id="attachment_153157" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-153157" style="width: 291px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/woocommerce-order-status-control-auto-complete.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-153157" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/woocommerce-order-status-control-auto-complete.png" alt="WooCommerce Order Status Control Auto-Completed" width="291" height="270" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-153157" class="wp-caption-text">Order Status Auto-Completed</figcaption></figure>
<p>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.</p>
<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 <strong>Order Status Control</strong></li>
<li>Choose from <strong>All Orders</strong> to change the order status to “completed” after successful payment for <em>all orders</em>, <strong>Virtual Orders</strong> to change the order status only for orders that contain all virtual products, or <strong>None</strong> to stop auto-completion all together.</li>
<li>That’s it! Sit back and enjoy automated order statuses!</li>
</ol>
<p><em>Need any more reason to buy? When you purchase a SkyVerge-developed extension, you’re getting the highest quality extensions for your WooCommerce store. Gain peace of mind by knowing that when you purchase our products, your store’s performance is as important to us as it is to you.</em></p>

Order Status Control

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

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<li>Choose from 3 different customizable templates for PDF Invoices</li>
<li>Automatically attach invoices to any email and my-account page</li>
<li>Auto-generate credit notes PDF  for refunded orders</li>
<li>Choose from multiple templates for generating packing slips</li>
<li>Customize Invoice number format using pre-defined variables</li>
<li>Control data to be included PDF invoices, packing slips, and credit notes</li>
<li>Include store and business VAT number in your invoices</li>
<li>Show prices inclusive or exclusive of taxes in invoices</li>
</ul>
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<p>Enhance your productivity by automatically generating PDF invoices for your orders by using our PDF Invoices & Packing Slip for WooCommerce extension. Additionally, you can also create visually appealing packing slips and credit notes PDFs for refunded orders.</p>
<p>Automatically attach PDF invoices to standard order email or any other email template. Additionally, you can allow your customers to download invoices anytime from my-account page.</p>
<p>The extension comes with multiple templates for PDF invoices, credit notes, and packing slips. You can personalize these templates and control information you may want to include according to your business needs.</p>
<h3><strong>Compatibility:</strong></h3>
<p>WooCommerce PDF Invoice extension by Addify is compatible with the following extensions, enabling you to include customer, product and checkout related data to PDF invoices.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/custom-user-registration-fields-for-woocommerce/">Custom User Registration Fields</a></li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/checkout-fields-manager/">Checkout Fields Manager</a></li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/product-options-and-fields/">Product Options and Addons</a></li>
<li>Product Add-Ons by WooCommerce</li>
<li>EU VAT Number for WooCommerce</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-tax-exempt-plugin/">Tax Exempt for WooCommerce</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>PDF Invoices:</h2>
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<p>With our PDF Invoices & Packing Slip for WooCommerce, you can automatically generate attractive PDF invoices for your orders and share them with your customers.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221119" alt="" /> <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221188" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PDF-Invoice-sample-1-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="1158" /></p>
<h3><strong>Choose from 3 PDF invoice templates:</strong></h3>
<p>This PDF Invoices for WooCommerce extension comes with 3 in-built minimalistic and professional templates to choose from.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221169" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PDF-Invoices-template-selection-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="866" /></p>
<h3><strong>Customize PDF invoice data and color scheme:</strong></h3>
<p>You can choose to customize invoice heading, logo, and store address as per your store requirements. You can also choose to hide specific customer and order information from PDF, like order number, invoice date, payment method, customer email, contact no., shipping date, and more. Additionally, you can customize the header color of your PDF invoice to match your store color scheme.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221171" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Control-PDF-invoice-data-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="800" /></p>
<h3><strong>Customize invoice number:</strong></h3>
<p>Customize your invoice number format to make it meaningful for your business. The extension comes with 5 pre-defined variables to format your invoice number. The same invoice number will be used as PDF file name.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221170" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PDF-Invoice-number-format-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="310" /></p>
<h3><strong>Add invoice note, terms, and conditions:</strong></h3>
<p>You can add any additional notes or include terms and conditions in your PDF invoices. Additionally, you can include clickable links in the terms and conditions to direct customers to specific URLs.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221172" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/PDF-Invoice-footer-and-terms-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="388" /></p>
<h3><strong>Attach with order emails and my-account page:</strong></h3>
<p>You can choose to enable my-account invoice download option for specific order statuses only. Additionally, you can choose to attach invoice PDFs to multiple emails as per your store needs. This control enables merchants to send invoice PDFs only where needed.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221364" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Attach-invoice-to-order-emails-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="555" /></p>
<h3><strong>Download PDF from my-account page:</strong></h3>
<p>Your customers can download PDF invoices at any time from my-account page under the orders grid.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221363" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Download-PDF-invoice-from-my-account-page.png" alt="" width="980" height="437" /></p>
<h2>Packing Slips:</h2>
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<p>Using our PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce, you can generate packing slips to ensure the correct products are shipped to your customers. Once the order is placed, the store admin can download the packing slip from the admin order detail page.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221405" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WooCommerce-Packing-Slip.png" alt="" width="980" height="1180" /></p>
<h3><strong>Packing slip templates:</strong></h3>
<p>This extension comes with 3 different packing slip templates to choose from. You can customize logo, titles and other details as per your need.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221656" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Packing-Slip-templates.png" alt="" width="980" height="1385" /></p>
<h3><strong>Packing slip PDF customization options:</strong></h3>
<p>Depending on your packing requirements, you can customize the information that needs to be included in packing slips like orderid, payment method, billing address, product prices, notes, footer content, and more. Additionally, you can customize the color scheme of headers.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221652" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WooCommerce-packing-slip-data-control.png" alt="" width="980" height="1092" /></p>
<h2>Credit Notes:</h2>
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<p>Once the order is refunded, the extension will generate a credit note for the respective order. Its a must-have feature for merchants dealing with B2B customers, as they require a credit note PDF for accounting purposes. The extension by default uses the PDF Invoice template and settings to generate credit notes for refunded orders.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221657" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Credit-note-using-PDF-settings.png" alt="" width="980" height="549" /></p>
<h3>Credit note PDF customization options:</h3>
<p>You can utilize default PDF invoice template and settings for credit note or choose a custom template and customize it as per your business needs. Just like PDF invoices, you can customize header colors, store details, payment method, shipping and billing addresses, and more. The extension comes with 2 additional themes for credit notes to differentiate it from order invoices if needed.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005221650" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WooCommerce-Credit-Notes-PDF-setttings.png" alt="" width="980" height="2172" /></p>

Addify PDF Invoices & Packing Slips

<p>Automatically generate professional PDF invoices, packing slips, and credit notes. Attach invoices to order emails and customers’ my-account page.</p>

Order Status Control vs Addify PDF Invoices & Packing Slips