Cancel in progress orders after a set time automatically?

Hi @chiizukeeki,

WooCommerce has an Inventory option called “Hold stock (minutes)” for this. Please navigate to WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Inventory and check “Enable stock management, then set your desired time limit in the “Hold stock (minutes)”.

For clarification, Hold Stock (minutes) holds product (for unpaid orders) for the minutes you set. When the limit is reached, the pending order is canceled.

You can learn more about this here: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/configuring-woocommerce-settings/#products-inventory-options

I hope this helps!

Hey @sukafia, thanks for your answer ??

I’m already using this function to cancel not paid paypal orders after one hour.
So I need an alternative way to cancel other orders like invoice and bank transfer, which should be canceled much later…

Also I think, those orders with invoice or bank transfer payment method are automatically “on hold” status, so they are not cancelled by this system.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by chiizukeeki.

Hey again!

There’s not a way to do this by default in WooCommerce, but I did a Google search and found this: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/294761/woocommerce-auto-cancel-on-hold-after-x-days

Check if that helps.

Hi @chiizukeeki,

We’ve not heard back from you in a while, so I’ll go ahead and mark this thread as resolved. Hopefully, the above link was helpful.

If you have further questions, please feel free to create a new thread.

thanks.