Title: Orders Processing or on Hold Last modified: January 28, 2019 --- # Orders Processing or on Hold * Resolved [mullenable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullenable/) * (@mullenable) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/) * Hello- * My website was working for orders, but now the orders are either processing or on hold. Below is the status report, any help on how to fix this? Thank you: * ``` ### WordPress Environment ### Home URL: https://www.swimmingscience.net Site URL: https://www.swimmingscience.net WC Version: 3.5.4 Log Directory Writable: ✔ WP Version: 5.0.3 WP Multisite: – WP Memory Limit: 768 MB WP Debug Mode: – WP Cron: ✔ Language: en_US External object cache: ✔ ### Server Environment ### Server Info: Apache PHP Version: 7.0.33 - We recommend using PHP version 7.2 or above for greater performance and security. 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Number of Decimals: 2 Taxonomies: Product Types: external (external) grouped (grouped) simple (simple) variable (variable) Taxonomies: Product Visibility: exclude-from-catalog (exclude-from-catalog) exclude-from-search (exclude-from-search) featured (featured) outofstock (outofstock) rated-1 (rated-1) rated-2 (rated-2) rated-3 (rated-3) rated-4 (rated-4) rated-5 (rated-5) ### WC Pages ### Shop base: #1012 - /shop/ Cart: #1007 - /cart/ Checkout: #1005 - /checkout/ My account: #1013 - /my-account/ Terms and conditions: #1009 - /terms-and-conditions/ ### Theme ### Name: Pro – Child Theme Version: 1.0.0 Author URL: http://theme.co/ Child Theme: ✔ Parent Theme Name: Pro Parent Theme Version: 2.4.6 Parent Theme Author URL: http://theme.co/ WooCommerce Support: ✔ ### Templates ### Archive Template: Your theme has a woocommerce.php file you will not be able to override the woocommerce/archive-product.php custom template since woocommerce.php has priority over archive-product.php. This is intended to prevent display issues. Overrides: pro/woocommerce/cart/cross-sells.php pro/woocommerce/loop/loop-end.php pro/woocommerce/loop/loop-start.php pro/woocommerce/loop/pagination.php pro/woocommerce/notices/error.php pro/woocommerce/notices/notice.php pro/woocommerce/notices/success.php pro/woocommerce/single-product/related.php pro/woocommerce/single-product/tabs/tabs.php pro/woocommerce/single-product/up-sells.php pro/woocommerce/single-product-reviews.php ``` * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Forders-processing-or-on-hold%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 22 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/) * (@lorro) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11141932) * – on-hold (ordered but not paid for, ie BACS, invoice, cheque) Admin has to update the order status on the order page when payment has been received. – processing( paid-for) Waiting for admin to fulfil the order. When the order has been fulfilled, the admin has to update the status on the order page. * Is the issue that the admin is unable to change the order status on the order page? * Thread Starter [mullenable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullenable/) * (@mullenable) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11146057) * Thanks for the update. I have gone in and processed them. I guess the issue is, why isn’t it doing this automatically? * On a separate note, the funds are not being deposited into my PayPal account. Is there a way to check this and confirm it is set up appropriately? * Thanks, * [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/) * (@lorro) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11146490) * For BACS, invoice and cheque payments, WooCommerce can’t know that payment has been made unless the admin says so. Meanwhile, the orders will remain “on-hold”. * For electronic payments, the orders will be “pending” until payment is made, usually a few minutes later. At that point, the payment provider will hand back electronically to WooCommerce, and WC should switch the order automatically to“ processing”. If there is some problem with the payment or the hand-back, the order remains at “pending”. If “pending”, you do need to go into PayPal to find out if payment has been made, and if so, look for issues with the hand-back. * An order at “processing” will remain so until an admin manually confirms the order has been fulfilled. WC has no way of knowing this automatically. * Thread Starter [mullenable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullenable/) * (@mullenable) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11153830) * OK. So I fulfilled a few processing orders, but the payment never went to PayPal. * I also have a few “on hold” so I’m waiting for payment? I received an order details email, and it looks like they paid. * [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/) * (@lorro) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154178) * “processing” means it’s been paid, if not in PayPal then payment should be in one of your other accounts. * “On hold” means you are waiting for payment, maybe a cheque through the post or a Bacs payment – check your account. You should not send goods. Order details does not imply payment has been made. * Thread Starter [mullenable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullenable/) * (@mullenable) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154210) * What other accounts? * Thanks for all your help by the way 🙂 * [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/) * (@lorro) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154255) * Bank account, credit card account, savings account. I don’t know, just that processing is the paid status. * If you really don’t have the payment anywhere, there is some software error, in which case you’ll need to check receipt every time before fulfilling the order. * Thread Starter [mullenable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullenable/) * (@mullenable) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154259) * Got it. Paypal is the only method I have set-up. * [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/) * (@lorro) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154268) * Got payment? * Thread Starter [mullenable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullenable/) * (@mullenable) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154273) * Nope. * [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/) * (@lorro) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154300) * Are you using a sandbox PayPal account? This is a special type of account for testing. No money changes hands. Check the WC settings for the PaPal payment method and ensure the sandbox/test option is not checked. * Thread Starter [mullenable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullenable/) * (@mullenable) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154304) * Nope, it is not checked on. * [Peter Lawrenson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/) * (@lorro) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154409) * There’s an enable logging option that might give some clues. Otherwise I don’t know. * Sometimes someone from the plugin team will come in with some help. * Plugin Support [Fernando a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fhaps/) * (@fhaps) * Automattic Happiness Engineer * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11154748) * Hi [@mullenable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullenable/), * As [@lorro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorro/) rightly mentioned above,` Processing` is generally the status that orders are set to when the store has received notification of payment for an order. * You mention that you are using PayPal to process your payments. What version of PayPal is that? Are you using the one that comes with WooCommerce out of the box, or did you install a separate PayPal plugin? * When an order is processed, most times you can go into the order page and look at the “Order notes”, which will give you more details about what method was used to receive that payment. * A line below the order number will also provide more useful details, including what method was this paid by, and in the case of online payment gateways, a transaction ID for the charge. See here: [http://cld.wthms.co/QeNtKN](http://cld.wthms.co/QeNtKN) * Usually, that transaction ID is a link to the charge in the gateway’s Dashboard, in this case PayPal. If you orders are being paid with PayPal, you can click that link to be taken to the PayPal dashboard, where you should be able to see more information about that particular payment. * As a general recommendation, you should withhold shipping any items for which you are unsure of having received payment. * Thread Starter [mullenable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mullenable/) * (@mullenable) * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-processing-or-on-hold/#post-11158107) * Hi all- * Thanks for the input. I’m using the WooCommerce straight out of the box. * I looked into my PayPal API more and somehow I had the incorrect API, would this be causing the issues I’m having? * Also, the products are digital, so should be sent automatically to the clients. * Thanks again for all the help! 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