Default cash on delivery status

The order status should have been checked like below:

$order->post_status === 'wc-processing'

Below is the complete corrected code:

add_action( 'woocommerce_thankyou', 'my_order_status', 10, 1 );
function my_order_status( $order_id ) {
	if ( ! $order_id ) {
		return;
	}
	$order = wc_get_order( $order_id );
	if ( ( get_post_meta( $order->id, '_payment_method', true ) === "cod"  ) && ( $order->post_status === 'wc-processing' ) ) {
		$order->update_status('on-hold');
	}
}

I hope this helps 🙂

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Prasad Nevase.

Did you place the second code block in your there’s functions.php file? Also do note that it will only work for new orders. It won’t update status for old orders which have cod payment method.

I double checked and its working for me with default theme and WooCommerce as only active plugin. Probably you may try changing the priority of the hook.

Maybe this works:

// change COD payment method order status from processing to on-hold
add_action('woocommerce_thankyou_cod', 'action_woocommerce_thankyou_cod', 10, 1);
function action_woocommerce_thankyou_cod($order_id)
{
	$order = wc_get_order($order_id);
	$order->update_status('pending');
}