Cheque-payment orders in WooCommerce go through the same plumbing as every other gateway: wc_orders on HPOS or shop_order posts on legacy, with payment_method=cheque as the discriminator. The Pro plugin lets you capture the cheque number and clearance status, typically as wc_orders_meta entries. The default Orders screen ignores all of it: cheque-paid orders look identical to card-paid ones, the cheque number is invisible, and there is no clearance-aging column.

SleekView reads wc_orders with a saved filter on payment_method=cheque and exposes the cheque-specific meta keys (cheque number, drawer bank, clearance status, received date) as first-class columns. Sort by days-since-receipt to spot cheques sitting past the typical clearance window. Filter by status on-hold for the awaiting-clearance queue.

Inline status edits route through WooCommerce's CRUD layer so the woocommerce_order_status_changed hook fires. Mark a batch of cleared cheques as completed in one pass, or move bounced ones to failed, with the same email and stock-update behaviour as the per-order admin flow.

Cheques are not the dominant payment method anywhere any more, but they remain meaningful in B2B sales, charity donations, and certain regional markets. A WooCommerce store that accepts cheques is usually one where each cheque represents a meaningful amount, and where mis-reconciling a single one is more expensive than the cost of the entire admin tool. The default WooCommerce Orders screen treats cheque orders as ordinary rows: status on-hold, total in fiat, no cheque number visible, no clearance age column.

Finance teams running daily reconciliation against the bank's cleared-cheques file end up opening each order to grab the cheque number, or exporting CSVs and matching them by hand. Bounced cheques sit in on-hold until someone notices. SleekView turns the same data into a queue tuned to how cheques actually flow: filter by payment_method, surface the cheque number, compute clearance age, bulk-complete matched orders.

Same hooks, same audit trail, dramatically less per-order clicking.