How to Create Custom Order Status in Magento 2

Order Status is the options to notify both customers and store owners about the order progress when an order is created while each order status is corresponding to a state in the Order Status Workflow that is shown in details by the previous topic. And this post will refer to how to create custom order status in magento 2.

In the configuration, you can create a new one, assign it to the order state, and even set it as the default status for that state. There are more and more settings you can do for the order status. Let check in the overview below.

Custom Order Status in Magento 2, following steps:

• Step 1: Create Custom Order Status
• Step 2: Assign an order status to a state
• Step 3: Custom an existing order status
• Step 4: Remove an order status from the current state

Step 1: Create Custom Order Status

• On the Admin Panel, Stores > Settings > Order Status.
• In the upper-right corner, click on Create New Status.

• Under Order Status Information section,
  • Insert a Status Code for the internal reference.

  The field needs to contain the letters (a-z), the number (0-9) and the underscore instead of a space while it is required to use the letters for the first character and the rest can be a combination of letters and numbers.

  • Set the Status Label for Admin and storefront.
• Set the Store View Specific Labels for each store view on your store.
• Save Status to complete.

Step 2: Assign an order status to a state

• Go to the Order Status page, click on Assign Status to State button.

• In the Assign Order Status to State section,
  • From the existing list of the order status, select the Order Status to assign.
  • Choose the Order State to include the order status you’ve just assigned.
  • Accept the order status as a default status, tick the Use Order Status as Default checkbox.
  • Enable the order status on the storefront, please tick the Visible On Storefront checkbox.

• Click on ` Save Status Assignment` to complete.

Step 3: Custom an existing order status

• Find the order status in the status list, and open the edit page.
• Customize any order status information as you need.
• Click on Save Status to save the changes.

Step 4: Remove an order status from the current state

You cannot remove the order status that is being used.

• Find the order status that you want to unassign in the status list.
• Under Action column, on the corresponding row, click on the Unassign link.

Right after that, a notification of the assignment will appear at the top of the workplace. Although the order status is unassigned, it is still included in the gird and never deleted.

Related topics

• Order Status Workflow
• Add Order ID, Customer IP Address in Invoice
• Enable or disable reorders
• RSS Feed: Order Status Notification
• Orders and Returns Widget
• Order Status and Order State
• Change Invoice, Order PDF template
• Free magento Delete Orders extension
• Magento Delete test orders
• Magento 2 Custom Order Number