Zencart has four default order status types which are Pending(1), Processing(2), Delivered(3), and Update(4). The number in parenthesis represents the order in which the order type will be located in the drop down so by default the first type in the drop down is Pending.
To add a new order status type login to the Zencart admin, click on Localization in the top navigation, and then click Order Status. This will display the order status type admin page where you can add, modify, or delete order status types. If all you need to do is add a order status type that will be located in 5th or higher place then click the Insert button at the bottom and add the new order status type. The very next one you add will be 5th, then 6th, and so on. So if you added Out of Stock via the Insert button you would now have the following order status types: Pending(1), Processing(2), Delivered(3), Update(4), and Out of Stock(5).
Please note that if you wanted to modify the order of the order status types or add a new order status type in 4th place it can get messy if there are already orders attached to those order status types. You would need to update all the orders via MySQL CLI with a command similar to the below. In this example assume you added modified Delivered(3) which is now Out of Stock(3) and then inserted Delivered(5) as a new entry. You would want to update all orders that are already delivered to reflect Delivered(5) as the order status instead of Out of Stock(3). This can be done using the syntax below.
- mysql> update orders set orders_status = '5' where orders_status = '3';
You will need to do this for each order status type that is modified. You can verify your changes/updates were successful by clicking on an order that has already been delivered to verify it still shows the proper order status.
