Uninstalling and deactivating the plugin

You can of course deactivate and uninstall the plugin in the completely usual way, but keep in mind that when the plugin isn’t active, WooCommerce won’t recognize the custom order statuses added by the plugin (these statuses start with “Mailstep – ”).

On deactivation, orders with an unknown status disappear from the orders listing (but remain in the database) and reappear once you reactivate the plugin.

If you deactivate the plugin, orders with these statuses are automatically changed to “Processing”, but the customer is no longer sent an e-mail notification. If you want to adjust this default behavior, you can do so in the plugin settings (WooCommerce → Settings → Mailstep → the Uninstall section).

You can of course also resolve the situation manually by editing the order statuses in WooCommerce before deactivating the plugin.

Danger

Watch out for re-sending an e-mail from WooCommerce – if the user already received such an e-mail during the purchase process, you probably don’t want to send it to them again (in that case, the way to do it is to disable its sending in WooCommerce → Settings → E-mails and the settings of the selected e-mail, and turn it back on after changing the status).

Alternatively, I explain everything in the video below: