Change WooCommerce processing order email notification recipient to a custom address

Question

When the order status in WooCommerce is set from pending to processing I can send an email to my customer. But I need to send an email only to a custom email adresse instead of the customer default address.

Is there a hook or filter for the functions.php file?

Answer 1

This custom function hooked in woocommerce_email_recipient_customer_processing_order filter hook, will do the job (Set in it your replacement email):

add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_recipient_customer_processing_order', 'processing_order_replacement_email_recipient', 10, 2 );
function processing_order_replacement_email_recipient( $recipient, $order ) {
    if ( ! is_a( $order, 'WC_Order' ) ) return $recipient;

    // Set HERE your replacement recipient email(s)… (If multiple, separate them by a coma)
    $recipient = '[email protected]';
    return $recipient;
}

Code goes in function.php file of your active child theme (or theme) or also in any plugin file.

Tested and works

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To add the custom recipient to the customer email, you should use this instead (if needed):

$recipient .= ',[email protected]';