Originally Posted by
DrByte
You can do whatever you like.
By default, Zen Cart comes preconfigured with 4 order status levels:
- Pending (meaning payment has not been received yet ... thus not processing the order yet)
- Processing (meaning payment received ... working on processing the order)
- Shipping (meaning you've shipped the order ... basically it's "done" at this point)
- Update (only used for downloadable products when you need to re-activate an expired download)
Many shopowners leave orders in Processing status. Some will update them to Shipping (perhaps rename Shipping to Shipped). Still others add lots more status levels.
If you have some other accounting system where you record all your orders in full detail, then you might consider deleting orders from Zen Cart admin ... but if Zen Cart is the only place where you store those details, it would be wise to keep your data there until you are no longer required to retain the details. Keeping the data online also allows you to run reports.
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