Title: Payments stuck in “PROCESSING”
Last modified: June 25, 2020

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# Payments stuck in “PROCESSING”

 *  Resolved [tonycreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonycreative/)
 * (@tonycreative)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/payments-stuck-in-processing/)
 * Payments are going through to Stripe, but they never automatically go from processing
   to Completed. Why?

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 *  [Nicola Mustone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolamustone/)
 * (@nicolamustone)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/payments-stuck-in-processing/#post-13047483)
 * Hello there,
    That is the expected behaviour.
 * WooCommerce will mark orders as Processing once the payment is received. From
   Processing to Completed is always a manual change, except for very specific cases.
 * Unless you sell digital products only, your orders will stay in Processing status
   until you mark them as Completed.
 * This is because Completed means that the order is ready and it has been shipped
   to the customer. WooCommerce cannot know when that happens, so it allows you 
   to change the status manually.

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 * Last reply from: [Nicola Mustone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolamustone/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/payments-stuck-in-processing/#post-13047483)
 * Status: resolved