Statuses on this page are specific for 4.0.0 RC8 and higher.

Status names used before Geo 4.0.0 RC8:

• New status name = old status name, used before Geo 4.0 RC8
• declined = needs alteration
• pending = inactive

(see why the statuses have been renamed? )

This page allows you to manage order items that are in the system. On this page, you will only be able to see order items that are attached to active orders. If you are looking for a particular order item and do not find it here, check on the Manage Orders page in your admin to see if the order it is attached to is activated or not.

This page will look something like this in your admin:

If you have selected to require admin approval for any price plan item settings, this page is where you will be doing that approval.

After reviewing each Pending item you will want to set its status to either active, declined, or delete the item by choosing delete. Do not leave an order item as pending for any extended length of time as it can "block" certain things from being allowed, depending on what the order item is for.

The main difference: Manage Orders is for money, while Manage Items is for screening things before they go live.

If you want to make sure you received payment for an order, you want Manage Orders. If you want to make sure a listing is not Spam, or that a listing does not contain in-appropriate materials, etc, you want Manage Items.

If you don't like something in an order, don't cancel the order, instead you approve the order, then go over to Manage Items and decline the actual item in the order. And likewise, if you never received payment for an item, don't decline the item, instead set the order the item is in to canceled or other appropriate status, and the item will automatically be declined since the payment was never received for the order.

Status names used before Geo 4.0.0 RC8:

• New status name = old status name, used before Geo 4.0 RC8
• declined = needs alteration
• pending = inactive

(see why the statuses have been renamed? )

For order items, there are 3 main statuses, along with "delete" which is not a status, but results in the order item being permanently deleted from the system.

• Active: The order item has been auto-activated by the system, or it has been approved by the admin user if the item requires admin approval.
• Pending: The item is waiting for the admin to activate or decline the order item. This is the status set by the system if the order item requires admin approval. Do not leave an item's status as pending, either change it to active or declined, or delete the item.
• Declined: The item has been declined by the admin, and has been left in the system for record keeping purposes.
• Delete: This is not a status, but rather it permanently deletes the order item from the system. This is not recommended for items that cost money, as it will result in inaccuracies in the order total. Selecting this will result in the item first being declined (if currently active), then deleted from the system.

If an order item is declined or deleted, and the user has paid for this item, it is up to the admin to resolve the issue as nothing is done money-wise at the point the admin user approves or declines an individual order item. You as the admin have several options:

• Enact a "no refund" policy for inappropriate material
• Initiating a refund outside of the Geo system
• Add the amount to the user's account balance if the site is using account balances.

But remember, if you did not receive payment for an order, that is different than declining based on the content of the listing, you would handle that in Manage Orders.