Let customers pay for products now and ship them together later. It suits collectibles, trading card, model and hobby shops whose regulars buy a few things each week and would rather have one parcel than several. Customers see their held orders in My Account, and you combine whole orders into one shipment when they are ready.
Original product orders, invoices and payments stay intact. A separate fulfilment record, an order used to track the combined parcel, connects the purchases. Its goods total is zero because those products have already been paid for. Shipping is agreed and paid separately; holding an order does not make delivery free.
Included in Free
- Hold option in classic checkout and Checkout Blocks, with your holding policy.
- Customer Held purchases page and shipment history.
- Paid goods, stock and refunds remain on their original WooCommerce orders.
- Branded store dashboard for held purchases and manually arranged parcels.
- Group whole orders for one customer and one recipient/address.
- Record dispatch with optional tracking, complete original orders and send a dispatch email.
- Validation and duplicate protection before dispatch, with recovery for delayed payment updates.
- WooCommerce HPOS and legacy order storage support.
Pro add-on
A separate Pro plugin adds customer-selected shipping requests and later shipping payments, a base-plus-weight rate with WooCommerce tax, order/weight limits, reminder emails, and combined packing slips. Free is fully usable without Pro. No premium code or licence client is included in this Free package.
Existing customer shipping payments, refunds, eligible cancellations, dispatch and saved tracking remain manageable in Free if Pro is deactivated. New customer quotes require Pro; manual parcels remain available to the shop.
Scope
Signed-in customers, one store currency, the store base country, and paid in-stock simple or variable physical products. Orders must share a customer, recipient, shipping address and compatible tax details. Whole orders are grouped. Live carrier quotes, label purchasing, international consolidation, backorders, preorders, deposits, split shipping packages, mixed virtual/unsupported carts and multi-currency are not included. Cash on delivery does not establish a paid hold.
New holds are paused by default. This Free plugin has no external API or licence connection. It uses WooCommerce orders, the shop’s selected payment gateway and its email configuration.
Screenshots
Free store dashboard for paid held purchases and manually arranged parcels. Demo data shown.
Free customer Held purchases page with paid orders and parcel progress. Demo data shown.