All virtual and downloaded products straightway goes to completed status once payment is done. This is the default behavior set by WooCommerce to process digital products. But if you wish to set some additional processing steps you may use a plugin or a custom code to achieve this.
Solution: Change Order Status for Downloadable Products in WooCommerce
The code snippet below will help you to add an order status ‘processing’ if the order contains a downloadable product. In short, we are adding an additional workflow ‘processing’ rather than immediately marking it as ‘completed’ for downloadable products.
add_action( 'woocommerce_order_status_changed', 'ts_change_status_downloads', 1 );
function ts_change_status_downloads( $order_id ){
// initiate the order
$order = wc_get_order( $order_id );
// let's suppose by default that all products are downloadable
$only_downloadable_products = true;
// loop through all products
foreach ($order->get_items() as $product_id => $product_data) {
// WC_Product object
$product = $product_data->get_product();
if ( !$product->is_downloadable() ) { // not downloadable
$only_downloadable_products = false;
break;
}
}
if( $only_downloadable_products == true ) {
$order->update_status('processing');
}
}
Output
When an order is placed that contains downloadable products the order status immediately goes to ‘processing’ regardless of the default assigned status ‘completed’.
Similarly, you can also set the status based on parameters such as product categories, tags and many more. You can check out here on how to customize WooCommerce order status based on Product Categories.
