Adding new order status

We are working to use HikaShop Business for internal ordering from our own warehouse. Therefore there is no need for payment processing, but all orders need to be approved by the employee's cost center manager before being submitted to the warehouse for packing and delivery. I created a status of Pending, intending to use off-line processing to query the HikaShop orders database to send emails to the relevant cost center managers, and upon receiving approval, change the order status to Confirmed.

What is the best way to accomplish what I am trying to do with minimal changes to the HikaShop code?

Any and all help / suggestions would be appreciated. We are HikaShop neophytes!

Thanks in advance!!

Hi there,

Reading your message, I think that you might be interested in HikaMarket: www.hikashop.com/extensions/hikamarket-multi-vendor.html
This Hikashop extension allows you to create multiple vendors (in your case the warehouse) with different products. Once this done, when your vendors will go on the website and order something, you can directly set the status of the order to confirmed and send an email to the warehouse (the email will be the one of the vendor). As Hikashop automatically send an email when an order is passed, the warehouse should receive the notification.

Tell me if it sounds good to you or if you had something else in mind!

It turns out that I already purchased HikaMarket because I actually have more than one warehouse, each of which handles a different category of supply. My issue is that I don't want the vendor (the warehouse) to see the order until after it has been approved by a third party (the cost center manager). I will have to handle that offline, but I was hoping that HikaShop could help with setting the status for me. Specifically, I don't want the status to become "confirmed" automatically, but, if anything, "pending" (the new status I created). I presume there is some php code where I could make an easy change to do this, but I haven't looked for it yet. I am concerned that future updates might override any change that I make.