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Custom Status matters only if the evidence supports a paid workflow around keeping client admin areas controlled, understandable, and safe to maintain, not a list of isolated fixes. The current commercial thesis is: Client admin changes, notices, hidden settings, and role confusion create support work and risky site handoffs. The entry wedge is to audit admin settings, notices, client-safe controls, and ownership of site-management actions.

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Build an admin and client-governance operations plugin for agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators: Client admin changes, notices, hidden settings, and role confusion create support work and risky site handoffs. The first wedge is to audit admin settings, notices, client-safe controls, and ownership of site-management actions.

The unmet need is not the individual complaint. It is the recurring business workflow: Client admin changes, notices, hidden settings, and role confusion create support work and risky site handoffs. Current stage: commercial plugin opportunity.

Competitors

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Edit Flow 4.0K installs · 4.2
praise owner
-100.0%momentum 50.8weakness 24/20pain/praise

Pain still appears around support, bugs despite praise for quality, support.

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Evidence

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complaint Duplicate admin emails for new orders

Duplicate admin emails for new orders: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Trace shows two separate plugin triggers after payment: PLLWC_Emails->send_new_order_email → calls WC_Email_New_Order->trigger (Polylang) Brightplugins_COS\Checkout->admin_new_order_email → calls WC_Email_New_Order->trigger on woocommerce_payment_complete (Custom Order Status Manager) WooCommerce also sends on pending → processing , so these extra triggers d complaint Issue – Emails Notification are not sent on Bulk Actions

Issue – Emails Notification are not sent on Bulk Actions: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Issue – Emails Notification are not sent on Bulk Actions Hello, I have an issue with this plugin. complaint Bug – Wrong order status name in multilingual emails (WPML + WooCommerce)

Bug – Wrong order status name in multilingual emails (WPML + WooCommerce): users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Bug – Wrong order status name in multilingual emails (WPML + WooCommerce) Hello, I’m using Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce (version 1.1.5) together with WPML + WooCommerce Multilingual. complaint Bad support & partially working

Bad support & partially working: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Bad support & partially working Support takes multiple months (4 months and counting) to adress a issue. complaint German Translation of original Statuses broken

German Translation of original Statuses broken: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · German Translation of original Statuses broken Dear Support Team, With the update to V.3.0.0 of the free version of this plugin, the original statuses (In Bearbeitung, In Wartestellung, Abgeschlossen, etc.) are no longer available in the German translation; the English titles appear instead. complaint critical error

critical error: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · critical error When I go to the calendar page in admin (../wp-admin/index.php?page=calendar) I get error message “There has been a critical error on your website. complaint Stop Email Sending

Stop Email Sending: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · Stop Email Sending When I installed, the plugin killed order email service. mixed Bulk Action Custom order status is not showing

Bulk Action Custom order status is not showing: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · Bulk Action Custom order status is not showing I am using a custom code to filter the order based on the payment method and I am using below code. mixed Fatal Error and Erasing all orders associated with Custom Order

Fatal Error and Erasing all orders associated with Custom Order: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · Fatal Error and Erasing all orders associated with Custom Order Hello, originally we were having a problem with a fatal error on the site whenever we changed to the custom order status and clicked update. mixed When using PHP8 plugin breaks orders page

When using PHP8 plugin breaks orders page: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · When using PHP8 plugin breaks orders page Hi If i set my server to use PHP 8, I cannot access woocommerce orders page. mixed Fatal error during adding custom order (downloadable product)

Fatal error during adding custom order (downloadable product): users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · Fatal error during adding custom order (downloadable product) I try to add order with custom status. complaint Has a Base64 hack built in

Has a Base64 hack built in: users show security, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · Has a Base64 hack built in Spent my entire day dealing with this bull**** \edit-flow\common\php\class-module.php , line 409 /** * This is a hack, Hack, HACK!!! mixed Trashing Products Orders Fatal Error

Trashing Products Orders Fatal Error: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · Trashing Products Orders Fatal Error We have an issue where fatal error occurs when adding orders or items to trash Warning : Undefined array key 0 in /srv/users/rsfbathrooms/apps/rsfbathrooms/public/wp-content/plugins/custom-order-statuses-for-woocommerce-pro/includes/class-alg-wc-custom-order-statuses-core.php on line 233 Fatal error : Uncaught Error: Call mixed Stock is not restoredwhen order is cancelled

Stock is not restoredwhen order is cancelled: users show compatibility, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · Stock is not restoredwhen order is cancelled Hi! complaint Running 2.0 – Causing fatal error on my site

Activating the custom order status plugin causes a fatal error, leaving many WooCommerce orders missing from the dashboard because their statuses depend on the plugin.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · a lot of my orders are missing from my dashboard mixed 1st update in two years produces fatal errors

1st update in two years produces fatal errors: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · 1st update in two years produces fatal errors ..was this release an accident? mixed Essential To Me But Lacking Direction

Essential To Me But Lacking Direction: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · Essential To Me But Lacking Direction This plugin is fantastic in what it offers but unfortunately, the things that are broken are the little things that kill me. complaint Custom Order Statuses missing from Woocommerce Email Settings

Custom WooCommerce order statuses were missing from email settings and template editing was blank, blocking critical client email customization.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · custom order status emails contain critical information for clients complaint Multiple emails for different statusses don’t save more than 1 status.

Multiple users reported that custom status email editing only saved against the first status, blocking urgent order-email workflows for months before a fix.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · it affects everyone complaint Critical bug in v1.3 that intervenes in EACH request in admin panel

Version 1.3 broke admin AJAX requests and settings saves across other plugins, causing the user to switch to an alternative plugin.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · random plugins stopped saving changes to their settings mixed Conflict with “Custom order numbers for woocommerce” plugin

Conflict with “Custom order numbers for woocommerce” plugin: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · Conflict with “Custom order numbers for woocommerce” plugin Hey, With new update this plugin has conflict with your “Custom order numbers for woocommerce” plugin. mixed Multiple tracking numbers with different carriers

Multiple tracking numbers with different carriers: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Order Status & Tracking Emails for WooCommerce · Multiple tracking numbers with different carriers We would like to ask if it’s possible to support multiple tracking numbers with different carriers within a single order. complaint Upgrading to 0.10.0 Breaks funtionality for editor role

Edit Flow 0.10.0 blocked editors and administrators from saving posts with nonce errors, and later fixes did not solve all cases.

Edit Flow · After the update, I cannot save any posts/page/custom posttype praise ANNOYING NOTIFICATIONS

ANNOYING NOTIFICATIONS: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · ANNOYING NOTIFICATIONS EVERYTIME I OPEN WP-ADMIN THERE’S ANNOYING NOTIFICATION: “🌟 Checkout our new Order Delivery Date Time & Pickup for WooCommerce plugin.It’s enables customers to conveniently select the date and time they prefer for the delivery of their orders. complaint Status per Payment Method not saving

Default order statuses per payment method did not save, making the plugin unusable until a fix, after which admin emails still failed for custom statuses.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Unfortunately, until then this plugin is useless. complaint WP-Payement-Plugin “sumup” crashes after the uptate to V1.2

Version 1.2 of Custom Order Status Manager caused the SumUp payment plugin to crash until a fixed update was released.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · i delete 1.2 and return old versione 1.1.5 is works with sumup nothinf crash complaint Volver a la versión anterior?

Version 1.2.0 caused a critical error when used with another WooCommerce plugin, then version 1.2.1 resolved it.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · La ultima versión me genera un error critico con otro plugin neutral Fatal error and orders not able to edit

Fatal error and orders not able to edit: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · Fatal error and orders not able to edit We’re receiving this error since the last update and all the orders in the past week are getting missed data because of this error. praise Better Than Paid Plugins

Better Than Paid Plugins: users show pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Better Than Paid Plugins I want to say a big “thank you” to everyone who made this plugin. complaint Edit Flow breaks editor after WP 5.5 update

Edit Flow breaks editor after WP 5.5 update: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · I used jQuery Migrate Helper plugin to get things working again. complaint WordPress 5.6 support

WordPress 5.6 support: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · WordPress 5.6 support Hi, Edit Flow has been throwing jQuery deprecation warnings since 5.5 with the jQuery migration helper. complaint Wrong template used

Wrong template used: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Wrong template used Hi, I have two custom statuses, each with a different template, but WooCommerce shows me the same email (in preview) and sends the same email. complaint Publish button not visible!

Publish button not visible!: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · Please help. complaint Would have been nice to use

Would have been nice to use: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · Would have been nice to use unfortunately it conflicts with the Cornerstone editor by Themeco. complaint Icon is not displayed in the order list

Icon is not displayed in the order list: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Icon is not displayed in the order list Hello, First of all, thanks for the great plugin. complaint Cannot save new user role

Cannot save new user role: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · Cannot save new user role Hello, I have been running into an issue whenever I have edit flow enabled. complaint Link from Edit Flow plugin needs an update

Link from Edit Flow plugin needs an update: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Edit Flow · Link from Edit Flow plugin needs an update When visiting Site.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=ef-settings there is a notice at the bottom that says: Please give us your feedback, ideas, bug reports and comments in the WordPress.org forums. complaint Breaks email notifications

Breaks email notifications: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status for WooCommerce · Breaks email notifications As title says, it breaks email notifications and you won’t get “New order” notifications in your admin email nor the client will receive anything. complaint Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called

Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called Notice : Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly . complaint Bad user experience

Bad user experience: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Custom Order Status Manager for WooCommerce · Bad user experience Added this to my website and the manager is annoying Added this to my website and the manager is annoying My team works hard, helping people at no cost.