Automatically set WooCommerce orders to Completed status

With this new snippet, we’ll show you how to make your orders that meet certain criteria go directly from “Processing” to “Completed” status. This is very useful if you only sell virtual products..

WooCommerce defaults to “Completed” status for orders that only contain virtual and downloadable products. However, this doesn’t work if the products aren’t marked as downloadable. The snippet below will allow orders to be set to “Completed” status if they only contain virtual products.

1|Information

Before using this snippet, make sure you have installed the Code Snippets plugin (free) on your WordPress site. If not, you can download it via the link below. If you have never added a specific feature to your WordPress site, we recommend you start by reading our dedicated guide (link below).

2|Prérequis

Here is the list of extensions required for this snippet to work properly. Make sure to install them before activating the snippet.

3|Snippet

Here is the snippet to use. The comments inside the code will guide you on how this snippet works.

Make sure to check the “Run snippet everywhere” box before enabling the snippet.

/** Here, we plug into the WooCommerce hook that is called when the status of an order is changed. We only do something if it was changed to processing */
\add_action('woocommerce_order_status_changed', function($orderId, $from, $to, $order)
{
    // Enusure Order data
    if ($orderId && !$order) {
        $order = \wc_get_order($orderId);
    }
    // Make sure we receive an order Id
    if (!$order) {
        return;
    }
    // only fo processing
    if ('processing' !== $to) {
        return;
    }
    foreach( $order->get_items() as $item ) {
        if ( $item['type'] == 'line_item' ) {
            $product = $order->get_product_from_item( $item );
            if ( ! $product->is_virtual() ) {
                // If there's a non virtual product
                return;
            }
        }
    }
    $order->update_status( 'completed' );  
}, PHP_INT_MAX, 4);