WooCommerce stores cash-on-delivery orders the same way it stores card payments: in wc_orders (HPOS) or shop_order posts (legacy), with payment_method=cod as the discriminator. The Cash on Delivery Fee plugin adds a fee line to each order as a row in wc_order_items of type fee, with the actual amount on wc_order_itemmeta. The default Orders screen does not split COD out, does not show the COD fee as a column, and does not group orders by shipping country so couriers can plan collection runs.

SleekView reads wc_orders with a saved filter on payment_method=cod and joins wc_order_items for the fee line. Shipping address columns come from wc_order_addresses. Total, COD fee, and net amount due on collection live side by side in the same row.

Inline status edits route through WooCommerce's CRUD layer so the woocommerce_order_status_changed hook fires normally. Mark a courier-collected batch of COD orders as completed in one pass, or bulk-flip failed-collection orders to a custom status, all without losing the audit trail.

Cash on delivery is a major payment method in Eastern Europe, India, North Africa, and parts of Southeast Asia, with COD share of WooCommerce orders sometimes well above fifty per cent. The default WooCommerce admin was designed around card payments where the money is already in your account by the time you see the order. COD inverts that: the order is real, but the cash is in the courier's hands, the customer's hallway, or nowhere yet.

Operations teams need to plan collection routes by shipping city, reconcile collected cash against orders by day, and handle failed deliveries as a distinct workflow. The Cash on Delivery Fee plugin adds a useful surcharge, but the fee line lives in wc_order_items where the default admin does not expose it as a column. SleekView surfaces COD as a real workspace: filter by payment_method=cod, see the fee per order, group by shipping city, bulk-complete collected routes.

Same database, same hooks, same audit trail.