They'll change status from active to enabled once they get paid. Hope you managed to get everything working.
Yes I did. Quite an easy and straight forward setup actually other than the exact 1,000 amount issue. It was super easy even without the setup script. A+ for user-friendliness. Probably it would be good to specifically mention if the amount is not exactly 1,000 it won't work in the setup guide.
Do you believe the send EXACTLY 1000 coins to the mn address instruction does not cover it or is unclear?
It should warn users it won't work if you send extra. In my case I sent extra because I believed the fees would be deducted leaving the masternode with 999.99xx. There is hardly a standard functionality across all cryptocurrencies for how fees are dealt with, how they're calculated, etc.