I’d love to have an order tags added when a product was ordered on backorder. That way when we are fulfilling orders, we know which orders to quickly skip (as they are not in stock) and when the stock arrives, we can quickly fulfill those orders. Thank you.
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Last updated: October 27, 2022
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Backordered orders blending into the normal queue are a genuine fulfilment hazard – teams start picks they can’t complete, or worse, ship partials unintentionally because nobody spotted the issue at intake.
Automatically flagging any order containing a backordered item the moment it arrives is exactly the right fix – routing decisions happen before anything moves rather than after.
There’s a plugin called OrderBadger that adds coloured badge pills to the WooCommerce orders screen using plain-English rules – try “Order contains at least one back-ordered item” – it works!
Closing this as possible to do so via product meta data.
I’m wondering if this could be achieved using the set if product meta option, by checking if the product has negative stock?