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Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce
Powerful free status controls with a painfully slow support team.
HealthyGrowing
85/100
The free version offers useful features but suffers from slow support.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.7★
112 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+30%
Growing fast
92 → 120 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +30% in the last year
92/day a year ago→120/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCustom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce is well-regarded as a reliable, easy-to-use free plugin for managing WooCommerce order statuses, though a small number of users report compatibility issues and very slow support response times.
What people like
- +Works reliably out of the box with no setup issues reported×6
- +Offers a strong feature set (custom icons, email notifications, colors, payment method status assignment) at no cost×3
- +Described as stable and lightweight×3
- +Useful for businesses with multi-stage order workflows×2
Common complaints
- −Support response times are extremely slow, with at least one user waiting over 4 months without resolution
- −Reported compatibility issues with the native WooCommerce payment plugin
- −At least one user found the plugin non-functional, unable to access features beyond setting a default order status
- −No PDF generation support for custom statuses
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.75★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 11%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 112 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-25★★★★★Does what it says!Adedayo Makinde
- 2026-05-05★★★★★Great plugin!ilier
- 2026-04-27★★★★★Super plugin. très pratique et stable.luccio333
- 2026-02-10★★★★★Great plugin!Nemanjank
- 2026-01-27★★★★★Great pluginSeila162
- 2025-10-20★★★★★Simple solution for adding custom order statusesMR J
- 2025-08-06★★★★★Great for additional data pointtaranakian1-shot
- 2025-07-29★★★★★Bad support & partially workinghendrikhere
- 2025-06-17★★★★★Better Than Paid Pluginsfigoudoji
- 2025-06-03★★★★★good for status managementjamalnasim
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce
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For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
120
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
113
Prior 7-day baseline
89
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
133
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+6.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.88
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+25%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.73 → 4.75★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered