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Paid orders stay pending in WooCommerce

Approved Mercado Pago payments leave WooCommerce orders stuck as pending instead of moving to processing.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

5 public reports · first reported 26 March 2026 · last reported 14 September 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Store owners using the Mercado Pago plugin with WooCommerce report that orders stay in pending payment even after the buyer's payment shows as approved on the Mercado Pago side.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.