Title: Orders stuck as processing
Last modified: September 6, 2016

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# Orders stuck as processing

 *  Resolved [apa1exakis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apa1exakis/)
 * (@apa1exakis)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-stuck-as-processing/)
 * I have PayPal express setup and it’s taking orders properly. Money is being taken
   by PayPal but the status is still stuck at Processing. How do I get it setup 
   to go to Complete when payment is made?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [angelleye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelleye/)
 * (@angelleye)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-stuck-as-processing/#post-8153473)
 * By default, WooCommerce sets new orders to Processing so that you can “process”
   the order and then set it to completed once you’ve delivered the product/service.
 * If you want to automatically update the order status based on the PayPal payment
   status you’ll need to use IPN (which is how the built in PayPal Standard option
   works with WooCommerce to update orders).
 * With our plugin, rather than build in a simplified and limited IPN solution directly
   into this plugin for that one task, we wound up creating an entirely separate
   plugin: [PayPal IPN for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/paypal-ipn/).
   This plugin allows you to do all sorts of things with IPN and is a lot more powerful
   than what the default PayPal Standard IPN solution does.
 * To get that same functionality working with PayPal for WooCommerce + PayPal IPN
   for WordPress you can follow [this tutorial that we put together](https://www.angelleye.com/automatically-update-woocommerce-order-status-when-paypal-payment-completes/)
   for exactly that.
 * Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about that.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [apa1exakis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apa1exakis/)
 * (@apa1exakis)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-stuck-as-processing/#post-8155729)
 * Thank you. Using the IPN plugin and function code addition worked.
 * Kevin
 *  Plugin Contributor [angelleye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelleye/)
 * (@angelleye)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-stuck-as-processing/#post-8157626)
 * Glad to hear it! 🙂

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [angelleye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelleye/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orders-stuck-as-processing/#post-8157626)
 * Status: resolved