Its not ideal to leave a customer waiting for their goods, and most online businesses realise this and will ship out goods as soon as they can.
However, if you run your store using Woocommerce, managing this can be a nightmare since there is no way to record which items in the order have been shipped and which ones haven’t. Not any more!
The Woocommerce Partial Orders plugin allows you to set each individual item in the order as shipped. The date it was marked will be stored so you know exactly when it was shipped, and the order status will be changed to Partially Completed so you can quickly and easily see which orders are not yet completed fully.
Changelog
1.2 - Oct 29th, 2014 ----------------------------- Feature: Send emails to customer notifying them of what has been shipped. Fix: Rewrote order status functionality for Woocommerce 2.2 Fix: Fixed unsafe script error in Chrome Fix: Rewrote bulk shipped status updates for order items Fix: Removed shipped status setting for delivery in order 1.1.1 - April 28th, 2014 ----------------------------- Fix: Fixed bug with plugins folder name 1.1 - April 23rd, 2014 ----------------------------- Feature: Set different quantities of order items as shipped Feature: History of previous quantities shipped of order item Feature: Automatically set all remaining quantities of order items as shipped Fix: Woocommerce 2.1 compatibility and bug fixes 1.0 - October 4th, 2013 ----------------------------- * Initial release