How to customize orders status?

If you want to timely inform customers about the progress of their orders before shipped, instead of the customer asking you "Why my order hasn't been shipped yet?", "When will my order be shipped?" Or you want to change orders status by ParcelPanel, please read the following article. ### Custom orders status You can add custom status in the **"Custom orders status"** setting of the **"Tracking Page"** section, customize the number of days and description of them. **e.g.** The order #1128 was ordered on Oct 8th, and it will be shipped on Oct 11th. So I add two custom status as the pictures below show. **Before**  **Setting**    If the customer comes to my store's tracking page to track this order on Oct 10th, what he/she will see will be what the picture below shows. **After**  **Note:** If the delivery time frame you set exceeds the actual time frame from **Ordered** status to **Order Ready** status, the system will automatically adjust the time of the custom status to the time of the previous status. ### Update orders status You can update the orders status and adjust the dates for each status in **"Orders"** section of your **Shopify admin**. **e.g.** The order #1128 is no stock left. It may be shipped on Oct 20th, so I select the order #1128, and click **"Update status"** of ParcelPanel on the drop-down menu above, custom order status created will appear here. I update the date of the status of #1128, and now the customer can get tracking info of the specific order's progress on my store tracking page. **Before**  **Setting**  **After**