Order Updates for Woo

Order Updates for WooCommerce adds a dedicated order-updates workflow for store teams and customers — replacing scattered order notes with clean, threaded conversations per topic.

Official website: orderupdatesforwoo.com — see every feature in detail, submit a support ticket, and read or share real, verified reviews.

Live demo: Try it instantly on TasteWP — a throwaway WordPress + WooCommerce site with the plugin pre-installed, no signup needed.

Demo logins (throwaway TasteWP site — it resets automatically, so explore freely):

• Admin — username: admin / password: Admin@Test@12345
• Store Manager — username: bobmerry / password: Demo@Test1234

Store managers can:

• Create and edit order updates directly from the WooCommerce order edit screen
• Assign updates to team members manually, or rotate them automatically through a round-robin pool
• Add internal staff notes and customer-visible notes side by side
• @mention teammates inline — they get an admin-bar notification and an email
• Mark updates resolved, re-open them, or block notes once solved
• Upload attachments to any note (images, PDFs, docs)
• Mute email notifications per update so a chatty thread doesn’t flood your inbox
• See assigned items, mentions, and replies in the WordPress admin bar with deep-link rows
• Track each team member’s queue on a dedicated Assignments page — store-wide waiting, resolved, and longest-wait stats, filterable by assignee and status
• Work through a full Notifications inbox — filter by Unread, Favorite or Archived, search, and mark read / favorite / archive / delete in bulk (auto-archives and auto-clears on a schedule)
• View an analytics dashboard with totals, resolution rate, average rating, per-assignee performance, and per-product breakdowns
• Get an email for every customer reply, even when not @mentioned — assignees are always notified

Customers can:

• View their order updates from My Account, or via a secure guest link in their email
• Open a new update or reply to an existing thread with text, emoji, and attachments
• See who’s assisting them (“Anita is assisting you with this order update”)
• Auto-scroll to new replies on a 30-second poll — no refresh needed
• Edit their own notes within the configurable edit window
• Rate resolved updates with stars and an optional comment
• Get a follow-up email branched on rating: 4★/5★ get a friendly share prompt; 1–3★ get an empathetic reply CTA

Embed anywhere:

The customer-facing portal works on My Account out of the box. Use the [order_updates_portal order_id="" order_key=""] shortcode to embed it on Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg, or any custom page.

Trademark notice: WooCommerce and Woo are trademarks of Automattic Inc. This plugin is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Automattic or WooCommerce. The names are used only to describe what the plugin works with.

External services

Order Updates for Woo connects to three external services to provide optional features. Below is a full disclosure of each service, what data is sent, and when.

Newsletter signup (newsletter.orderupdatesforwoo.com)

Used to subscribe the site administrator to the plugin’s product update newsletter. Only active when the administrator types an email into the welcome screen signup form and clicks “Subscribe”. Not required for the core order-updates flow.

• Subscribe action: Sends the email address the administrator typed and the site’s home URL to a Cloudflare Worker we operate at newsletter.orderupdatesforwoo.com, which then forwards the email to Mailchimp for list subscription. Nothing is sent without an explicit click.

Service provider: Cloudflare Workers (Cloudflare, Inc.) and Mailchimp (Intuit Inc.) Privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ and https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/ Terms of service: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/ and https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/

Plugin review form (api.web3forms.com)

Used to collect optional plugin feedback from administrators via a dismissible 5-star review notice in the WordPress admin. Not required for any core feature; nothing is sent unless the administrator submits the form.

• Submit review: Sends the star rating the administrator clicked, the administrator’s WordPress display name, the administrator’s WordPress email address, an optional public profile or store URL, and an optional short message to api.web3forms.com. The endpoint then forwards the submission to the plugin author. Only fires when the administrator clicks a star and then clicks “Submit rating”.

Service provider: Web3Forms Privacy policy: https://web3forms.com/privacy Terms of service: https://web3forms.com/terms

Staff avatars on the customer-facing page (gravatar.com)

Used to render staff member avatars next to their replies on the customer-facing order updates page. Only active when the site administrator turns on the “Show assignee to customers” setting, which is off by default. Uses WordPress’s built-in get_avatar_url() function.

• Avatar image load: When the customer’s browser renders the page, it requests the staff avatar image from gravatar.com using an MD5 hash of the staff member’s email address (the standard Gravatar URL). The plugin itself does not transmit any email — the image request happens in the customer’s browser as part of loading the page.

Service provider: Gravatar (Automattic Inc.) Privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/ Terms of service: https://wordpress.com/tos/