Woocommerce sandbox paypal show order status payment pending - paypal

Question

Even checkout process is completed using Paypal Sandbox, order status shows Payment Pending.
My configuration is wrong?

Answer 1

I had the same issues, could be lots of things but I wasn't aware that in case of physical products woocommerce doesn't complete the order upon payment, that's because you should pack and send to the customer still so required some action from the seller.
in class-wc-order.php core woocommerce you can find this function
public function payment_complete( $transaction_id = '' ) {
...
$this->set_status( apply_filters( 'woocommerce_payment_complete_order_status', $this->needs_processing() ? 'processing' : 'completed', $this->get_id(), $this ) );
...
}
the needs_processing() will return true if the product is not virtual.
I changed this behaviour with a simple hook on filter woocommerce_order_item_needs_processing that you can find inside the function needs_processing()
/**
* this hooks turn status complete for every order upon payment.
*/
add_filter('woocommerce_order_item_needs_processing','my_filter');
//see class-wc-order line 1368 to understand the return value
function my_filter(){
return false;
}
but really, this issue can be lots of thing so this is not your case then have a look to the woocommerce pay pal doc here https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/paypal-standard/#section-21