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Edit this product discovery mindmap in Mermaid, inspect the rendered result, and adapt the working source for your own documentation.
Editable State diagram example
Order lifecycle Mermaid diagram example
Updated · Renders with Mermaid 11.17.2
Edit this commerce order lifecycle in Mermaid, inspect the rendered result, and adapt the working source for your own documentation.
About this example
This commerce order lifecycle example is designed as an editable starting point rather than a finished specification. In the rendered diagram, payment, shipping, delivery, and cancellation form explicit allowed transitions. Read the structure once before changing the source so identifiers, labels, and connections stay aligned. The example is intentionally small enough to test after every edit, but it includes the syntax needed to communicate the central relationship. Open it in mermaid.tools, make one change at a time, and keep the Mermaid source alongside exported images so the diagram remains maintainable.
Mermaid source
stateDiagram-v2
[*] --> Pending
Pending --> Paid : pay
Paid --> Shipped : ship
Shipped --> Delivered : deliver
Delivered --> [*]
Pending --> Cancelled : cancel
Cancelled --> [*]Adapt it
- Remove impossible transitions and label the events used by your application or operations team.
- Keep identifiers short and stable while changing the visible labels for your audience.
- Preview after each structural edit, then remove sample nodes that do not represent real information.
- Export SVG for scalable documentation or PNG when the destination expects a fixed image.
This example source is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Review generated diagrams before relying on them in documentation.
Learn more in the related guide.