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Magento create custom order statuses

This post is just a reminder for myself. It's taken from http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/9976/P30/ . The code below was tested and works just fine on magento 1.4.0.1

So to recapitulate, I did the following (citing the other guys, thanks to atlasit, ajayksh and rune00):

1) write a list of the additional statuses that you want

2) download and open the file Magento\app\code\core\Mage\Sales\etc\config.xml
(do not upload it again as soon as you’re done, you need to place it into a different folder, see below)

3) find this code:

<pending translate="label"><label>Pending</label></pending>

and after that add your own new custom status

<my_new_custom_status translate="label"><label>My New Custom Status</label></my_new_custom_status>

4) Now find this code, a few lines below:

<states>
  <new translate="label">
    <label>New</label>
    <statuses>
      <pending/>
    </statuses>
  </new>

and under or above this block create a new block with your own custom status:

<states>

  <new translate="label">
    <label>New</label>
    <statuses>
      <pending/>
    </statuses>
  </new>

  <my_new_custom_status translate="label">
    <label>My New Custom Status</label>
    <statuses>
      <my_new_custom_status/>
    </statuses>
  </my_new_custom_status>

repeat this (step 3 and 4) for each new custom status

5) So that you can change your status from the admin interface back and forth
from any current status, you need to edit again each of the status code block
as follows.

change this

<new translate="label">
    <label>New</label>
    <statuses>
      <pending/>
    </statuses>
  </new>

to this

<new translate="label">
    <label>New</label>
    <statuses>
      <my_new_custom_status/>
      <pending/>
      <processing/>
      <holded/>
      <complete/>
      <closed/>
      <canceled/>
    </statuses>
    <visible_on_front/>
  </new>

you need to do this with all of the existing statuses and the new custom statuses that you’ve just created

so that these new statuses do not only become available and visible to the admin, but also to the customer
on his “my account” page (order history, current status), you need to make the new statues visible (thanks to rune00)
with the tag , as described above.

6) After you saved your changes, upload the new config.xml file to
/app/code/local/Mage/Sales/etc/ (you will need to create that folder structure)

7)Create a file named Mage_Sales.xml with the following content (thanks to atlasit)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Mage_Sales>
            <active>true</active>
            <codePool>local</codePool>
        </Mage_Sales>
    </modules>
</config>

Upload it to /app/etc/modules/

that’s pretty much it.

If you got it running successfully as well, let us know so that it will help others as well.