How to Add a Shipped Order Status in WooCommerce

Recently an exasperated WooCommerce user contacted us as he was not able to differentiate between order items which have been shipped and delivered to a customer as opposed to items which have been shipped but not yet delivered.

On investigating, I realised it is a pretty basic requirement which made me wonder why it hasn’t been incorporated yet into WooCommerce. Never mind! I’m sure the developers of WooCommerce have their reasons. Let’s not get into that. Let’s just focus on how to add a shipped order status in WooCommerce.

To begin with, I did a recce of orders page and the single order page to identify exactly which sections of the pages required changes. Having done that I explored the hooks and filters offered by WooCommerce. Subsequently, I had the following tasks at hand to be able to fulfil the requirement of adding a shipped order status in WooCommerce.

1. Register Shipped Order Status in WooCommerce
2. Add ‘Shipped’ to Order Action Metabox on Single Order Page
3. Add ‘Shipped’ to Order Status list on Single Order Page
4. Create Callback Function if Order Status is Marked as Shipped
5. Provide Feature to Change Order Status to Shipped for Multiple Orders

Steps to Add a Shipped Order status in WooCommerce

1. Register Shipped Order Status in WooCommerce

• The foremost step to carry out would be to register the shipped order status in WooCommerce. Only after this step has been fulfilled will it be possible to carry out the remaining steps.
• The code to add shipped order status in WooCommerce will have to be written on the ‘init’ hook and will be as below.

    add_action( 'init',       array($this,'wdm_register_shipped_order_status'));

    /* Register new status*/
    function wdm_register_shipped_order_status()
    {
         register_post_status( 'wc-shipped', array(
         'label' => _x('Shipped','wdm'),
         'public' => true,
         'exclude_from_search' => false,
         'show_in_admin_all_list' => true,
         'show_in_admin_status_list' => true,
         'label_count' => _n_noop( 'Shipped <span class="count">(%s)</span>', 'Shipped <span class="count">(%s)</span>' )
        ));
    }

2. Add ‘Shipped’ to Order Actions Metabox on Order Page

• The next step would be to add the ‘Shipped’ order status to the order actions meta box on the single order page.
• When the admin selects the ‘shipped’ option in the order action meta box that particular order will be assigned the shipped status. This status will also be reflected on the order page. In order to do so the following code will have to be added.

add_action( 'woocommerce_order_actions', array( $this, 'wdm_add_order_meta_box_actions' ) );
/* Add Order action to Order action meta box */
    
function wdm_add_order_meta_box_actions($actions)
{
   $actions['wdm_shipped'] = __( 'Shipped', 'wdm');
   return $actions; 
}

• Once this has been done the ‘Order Actions’ drop down will look as below.

• An important thing to note here is that with this code ‘Shipped’ order status will be added to the drop down list. Read on to know how to incorporate the processing when the shipped order status is selected.

3. Add ‘Shipped’ to Order Status list on Single Order Page

• We will also have to add ‘Shipped’ to the order status drop down list in the single order page.It will be done as given below.

add_filter( 'wc_order_statuses', array($this,'add_shipped_to_order_statuses'));
/* Adds new Order status - Shipped in Order statuses*/
function add_shipped_to_order_statuses($order_statuses)
{
      $new_order_statuses = array();
      // add new order status after Completed
      foreach ( $order_statuses as $key => $status ) 
      {
         $new_order_statuses[ $key ] = $status;
         if ( 'wc-completed' === $key ) 
         {
            $new_order_statuses['wc-shipped'] = __('Shipped','wdm');    
         }
      }
   return $new_order_statuses;
}

• The following image is an example of how the order status dropdown will look once the ‘Shipped’ status has been added to it.

4. Create Callback Function if Order Status is Marked as Shipped

• Now that the ‘Shipped’ order status has been added to the required lists the next step would be to define the action that should be taken when the ‘Shipped’ value is selected in any of the above lists. For this callback functions will have to be written.
• The following function written on the ‘woocommerce_order_action_wdm_shipped’ hook will be called when ‘Shipped’ has been selected from the order actions drop-down list.

//Add callback if Shipped action called
add_action( 'woocommerce_order_action_wdm_shipped', array( $this, 'wdm_order_shipped_callback' ),10,1);
function wdm_order_shipped_callback($order)
{ 
    //Here order object is sent as parameter
    
    //Add code for processing here
}

• In the event in which ‘Shipped’ is selected from the order status drop down the following function which has been written on the ‘woocommerce_order_status_shipped’ hook will be called.

//Add callback if Status changed to Shipping    
add_action('woocommerce_order_status_shipped',array($this,'wdm_order_status_shipped_callback'),10,1);
function wdm_order_status_shipped_callback($order_id)
{
    //Here order id is sent as parameter
    //Add code for processing here
}

5. Provide Feature to Change Order Status to Shipped for Multiple Orders  

• Well, that is not it though. There could be an instance wherein you might want to change the order status of multiple orders to be shipped all at once.
• In order to effect this change, you will first need to add ‘Mark Shipped’ to the bulk actions drop down on the orders page.
• And here’s the icing on the cake. You can use the following code to change the status icon in the orders table on the order page.

//Add "Mark as Shipped" in Bulk action
        
add_action( 'admin_footer', array( $this, 'wdm_add_shipped_in_bulk_action'),11);

/*
     * Add "Mark as Shipped" in Bulk action dropdown
     */
    function wdm_add_shipped_in_bulk_action()
    {
        global $post_type;

        if ( 'shop_order' == $post_type ) {
        
        wp_register_style('wdm_shipping_icon_css_handler',plugins_url('assets/css/wdm_shipping_icon.css',__FILE__));
            wp_enqueue_style('wdm_shipping_icon_css_handler');
        
        ?>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            
            jQuery(function() {
            
                jQuery('<option>').val('mark_shipped').text('<?php _e( 'Mark shipped', 'woocommerce' )?>').appendTo("select[name='action']");
                jQuery('<option>').val('mark_shipped').text('<?php _e( 'Mark shipped', 'woocommerce' )?>').appendTo("select[name='action2']");
                
            //Add icon
            
            title_text = jQuery('.column-order_status .shipped').html()
            jQuery('.column-order_status .shipped').attr('alt',title_text);
            jQuery('.column-order_status .shipped').empty();
            jQuery('.column-order_status .shipped').append('<icon class="icon-local-shipping"></icon>')
            jQuery('.column-order_status .shipped').css('text-indent','0');

            });
        </script>
        
        <?php
        
        }
        
    }//function ends - wdm_add_shipped_in_bulk_action 

• Once this has been done you will now have to create a call back function which will be called when admin selects ‘Mark Shipped’ option from the bulk action drop-down.

//Add callback for Bulk action
add_action( 'load-edit.php', array( $this, 'wdm_bulk_action_shipping_callback' ) );
/* Bulk action for Shop Order - Shipping selected*/
    function wdm_bulk_action_shipping_callback()
    {
        $wp_list_table = _get_list_table( 'WP_Posts_List_Table' );
        $action = $wp_list_table->current_action(); //wc-shipped

        switch ( $action ) {
        
        case 'mark_shipped' :
            
            $new_status = 'shipped';
            $report_action = 'marked_shipped';
            break;
        
        default :
            return;
        }
        
        $post_ids = array_map( 'absint', (array) $_REQUEST['post'] );

        foreach ( $post_ids as $post_id ) {
            $order = wc_get_order( $post_id );
            $order->update_status( $new_status, __( 'Order status changed by bulk edit:', 'woocommerce' ) );
            $changed++;
        }

        $sendback = add_query_arg( array( 'post_type' => 'shop_order', $report_action => true, 'changed' => $changed, 'ids' => join( ',', $post_ids ) ), '' );
        
        wp_redirect( $sendback );
        exit();
        
    }//function ends - wdm_bulk_action_shipping_callback

So, that was about adding a shipped order status in WooCommerce. I have covered all the points in detail and tried my best to make it simple for you. However, if you think you still have some doubts then connect with through the comments section and I shall be happy to help.

🙂

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