Automatic activation of membership when someone has paid

Hi there,

It sounds like this is working as expecting at the moment – The “Processing” part means that there’s something left for the shop manager to do, notably to ship the product to the customer (after which the shop manager can manually change the status to “Completed”).

In the event that the membership you’re selling is for *access* purposes only AND no shipping is required, you’ll want to mark the product as being “virtual”. Virtual products mean there’s nothing to ship and the order status can be marked as “Completed” as soon as the payment is made successfully.

@riaanknoetze thank you very much… actually my products are virtual (i sell membership access) and i also configured my products as virtual but maybe i do something wrong. i will check this again. Thanks ??

IF all your product are virtual, then it might make sense to completely bypass the processing status and go straight to completed.

Here’s a guide to doing that: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/automatically-complete-orders/

Note that will do it for all paid orders.

If you need more granular control, I’d recommend looking at using a plugin like https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-order-status-control/

Hopefully that helps! Have a great one!

@slash1andy thanks a lot for the “automatically-complete-orders” guide.
This is very helpful for me. And also the plugin ist very nice. Thanks again ??

Great to hear that should work for you.

Have a great one!

Hello @slash1andy

once again.

i try the code:

/**
* Auto Complete all WooCommerce orders.
*/
add_action( ‘woocommerce_thankyou’, ‘custom_woocommerce_auto_complete_order’ );
function custom_woocommerce_auto_complete_order( $order_id ) {
if ( ! $order_id ) {
return;
}

$order = wc_get_order( $order_id );
$order->update_status( ‘completed’ );
}

and have copy this in my snippets plugin but it doesnt works.

After that i have put the code in my functions.php (as i have done a lot of times with other code) but then i get a wordpress crash / error.

i am running woocommerce Version 4.6.0
maybe i need another code or do you habe an idea what is going wrong?

Thanks a lot man

Greetings
Vasilibilly

@vasilibilly Hi, i am also using woocommerce membership.
your problem seems to be my solution on my part.

i want to activate the membership when the order status is “COMPLETED” but right now the membership is activated when the order status is on “PROCESSING”.

can you please tell me what setup u did on your membership settings before?

Thank you